Medical Expert
The resident will acquire the knowledge:
Contained in Section 11 of AAO BCSC annually.
Contained in Yanoff and Fine's Ocular Pathology
The resident will acquire clinical skills:
Review of Kodachrome slides
- Attendance of rounds with CPC presentations.
- McGill didactic lectures (Thursday morning post-graduate course).
- Review of teaching slides on your own.
Review of slides in study sets
Each hospital has been provided with a study set of 30 slides which covers many of the important entities in ophthalmic pathology and which includes a corresponding report for each case. Furthermore, a large study set of several thousand slides has been organized into slide boxes under the heading of individual tissues (eg. malignant eyelid, conjunctiva, uveal melanoma) and is kept in the McGill Pathology Institute as our McGill Registry of Ophthalmic Pathology; these may be borrowed from our fellow at any time to be reviewed at the McGill Pathology Institute where microscopes are available for this purpose.
Review of Kodachrome slides
A study set of 175 Kodachromes has been purchased from the AFIP along with a corresponding text covering normal anatomy, congenital anomalies and neoplasms and these are available at each hospital to be borrowed by the residents for residents review.
An extended elective period (eg. in PGY-5) may involve research studies in ophthalmic pathology especially if these have been initiated at an earlier time.