Research
Brown’s trademark dedication to multidisciplinary research and scholarship is fostering discoveries in brain science, genetics and genomics, cell biology, ecology, and more.
Brown holds steadfast to the belief that the most significant medical advances of our time will occur in translational research, where basic science discoveries generated in laboratories lead to innovations in patient care in hospitals.
Brown and its affiliated teaching hospitals are ideal incubators for research that span the distance between the laboratory and the patient. Never before in Brown’s history has research in the life sciences been so dynamic. Driven by external funding that has more than doubled since 1999, the research enterprise at Brown Medical School and its affiliated hospitals attracts nearly $130 million annually.
The Division of Ophthalmology is committed to creating an academic environment that emphasizes clinical and basic science research.
Faculty
Ophthalmology faculty members participate in research and demonstrate other scholarly activities as defined by one or more of the following:
- Didactic teaching excellence
- Delivery of weekday lectures applying to traditional and current topics in ophthalmology
- Providing annual review sessions for residents preparing for standardized ophthalmic assessment testing
- Surgical teaching excellence
- Permitting residents to assistant in their own private cases
- Directly supervising residents acting as primary surgeon
- Proctoring monthly surgical conferences
- Clinical teaching excellence
- Medical student clinical electives
- Directly supervising ophthalmology resident clinics,
- Seminars, grand rounds conferences, presentation, and at the bedside.
- Preparation and presentation of material in a well organized, current, and stimulating fashion as viewed by senior faculty, medical and graduate students and/or house-staff.
- Counseling medical students and ophthalmology residents.
- A clinical role model and mentor for medical students and residents.
Position of leadership within the university, affiliated hospitals, and local medical community.
- Membership and participation in local, regional, and national professional societies.
- Presentation of research activities at local, regional, and national academic conferences.
- Record of scholarly publications.
- Relevant extramural services to the general medical community and the public at large.
Residents
Ophthalmology residents participate in research and demonstrate other scholarly activities (defined below), and present scholarly work at the Annual Resident Research Symposium at the end of the academic year.
- Didactic education
- Attendance at all didactic educational experiences arranged for the resident as part of the ophthalmology residency program monthly lecture schedule.
- Surgical excellence
- Attendance at all assigned surgical educational experiences arranged for the resident as part of the ophthalmology residency program clinical roster.
- Attendance at all surgical conferences arranged for the resident as part of the ophthalmology residency program monthly lecture schedule.
- Clinical teaching excellence
- Attendance at all assigned clinical educational experiences arranged for the resident as part of the ophthalmology residency program clinical roster.
- Participating along with faculty in the direct supervision of junior ophthalmology resident and medical students,
- Attendance at all clinical conferences arranged for the resident as part of the ophthalmology residency program monthly lecture schedule.
- Preparation and presentation of material in a well organized, current, and stimulating fashion as viewed by senior faculty, medical and graduate students and/or house-staff.
- A clinical role model and mentor for medical students and junior residents.
- Membership and participation in local, regional, and national professional societies.
- Presentation of research activities at local, regional, and national academic conferences.
- Record of scholarly publications.
- Relevant extramural services to the general medical community and the public at large.