Cole Eye Institute Residency Training Provides Opportunities (Video)

“I was interested in a program that would keep all the doors open for me… I always knew I wanted to be in academics, but I wanted to be able to see everything. So Cleveland Clinic offered the opportunity for exceptional clinical training but still had a heavy slant towards creating academicians, so I felt that this would be the best place for me to train,” says Dr. Jeng.



“The biggest challenge for anyone going into ophthalmology is that we don’t get a lot of it in medical school… it’s not like learning medicine where we have a basis coming out of medical school… We’re basically starting from square one and learning a complete field in three years,” he continues. “The strength of the program at Cleveland Clinic… the amount of time we spend one-on-one with world-renowned faculty to teach us how to take care of patients and about disease processes that are very complex. If [residents were] on our own, I think that we wouldn’t be providing the best of patient care… the eye residency is in many ways still like an apprenticeship.”