Ophthalmology Residency Helps Focus on Future (Video)

“At Cole [Eye Institute], you just have so many internationally renowned attending physicians there not only to take care of patients, but to teach you… and, they are, I don’t want to say “at your disposal,” but… anything you needed from them, any kind of mentorship, questions about patients, questions about your research, questions about your future… they really were there to help you… I wish I had taken in even more than I did. I’m currently at Kresge Eye Institute, and here I’m involved with research activities with the residents, and I’m also associated residency program director. I very much enjoy having the residents in my clinics and teaching them, and I think that… I really aspire to be like the teachers who taught me.
I was really productive in residency with research, and that wasn’t because I’m an amazing researcher… I had mentors [at Cole Eye Institute] who helped me pursue my interest and walked me through it… They’d spend hours in clinic with me and then hours on weekends reviewing my manuscripts and helping me understand how to make them better.”