Optometric Residency Program

Sponsor: ICON P.C.

Affiliate: Pacific University College of Optometry, Forest Grove, Oregon

Mission Statement: ICON’s residency mission is to cultivate knowledge and skill to produce confident, inspired optometrists to serve our patient and professional community.

At ICON, we are committed to serve the needs of our patients and hold ourselves accountable to the highest standard of eye care. ICON provides residents with direct and in-depth contact with patients using a multi-specialty, high volume, hands on learning experience in refractive surgery, ocular disease, comprehensive eye care and co-management. Our goal is to provide advanced clinical knowledge and skills that increase the resident’s diagnostic, disease management, patient care competencies and interprofessional communication for increasingly better clinical outcomes.

General Information

Residency Program Coordinator: Seamus Martin, OD
Length of Program: 13 months
Number of Positions: 1
Annual Salary: $45,000 – Salary not contingent upon productivity of the resident.
Other Employment: Additional employment (moonlighting) during the tenure of this residency is not permitted without the consent of the residency coordinator.
Hours: Approximately 40 hours per week will be assigned. After hours on-call assignments may be made on an as-needed basis.

• “On-Call” is the period of time for which the resident is responsible for responding to urgent/emergent after-hours calls or those calls which may come during regular business hours that cannot be immediately attended to by ICON physicians. On the rare occasion that the resident would be required to come to clinic after hours the residency coordinator will accompany the resident.

Strengths of the Program
The resident will experience a multi-specialty, multi-modality clinical setting including an on-site, fully Medicare approved ambulatory surgery center (ASC). The most advanced technology is available including Zeimer Galalei tomography, ocular response analyzer (ORA), HD-OCT, manual A/B-scan and UBM, topography guided testing and laser equipment, wavefront guided testing and laser equipment and femtosecond cataract and LASIK equipment. Comanagement with referring doctors and other specialties is expected.

Scholarly Activities
The resident will write a paper of publishable quality based upon original research, literature review, or a clinical case that is suitable for submission to a refereed professional journal under the guidance and support of the Residency Coordinator.

The resident will present a lecture at the annual Northwest Residents Conference at Pacific University. The resident may also have the opportunity to present posters, papers, or lectures in other settings such as local or state optometric organizations or continuing education events sponsored by ICON.

Research
The resident will assist in any on-going laboratory and/or clinical investigation(s) initiated by ICON faculty members. The resident will also be encouraged to generate their own studies/seminal work, but it will not be required for successful completion of their residency program.

Library & Research Resources
The resident is provided electronic access to the libraries and computer databases of Pacific University.

Generally, ICON refractive patients are 20-50 years old, healthy individuals. The primary care, glaucoma, uveitis and retina patients will vary greatly in health and age. Overall, this wide range of patient interactions will provide the resident with a great learning experience.

Computer, Email & Telephone Access
The resident’s workspace is equipped with a telephone, computer internet and email access.

Performance Evaluations
The resident will meet on a weekly basis with the residency supervisor for discussion of current cases. The resident will receive quarterly written evaluations from the residency program coordinator. The resident will evaluate the residency program and the residency program coordinator at mid-year and at the end of the year.

This program uses the Optometric Residency Match (ORMatch). All applicants must complete and return application forms by the ORMatch application deadline. Supporting documents should be submitted directly to the Residency Coordinator no later than January 30. Applicants must complete the ORMatch application and forward it to the ORMatch as directed in the application. Applicants are responsible for ensuring that all supporting documentation, including the complete transcript of the applicant’s optometric education, is submitted to each entity involved, i.e., ICON and ORMatch.

Applicant must have earned an O.D. degree, or will have earned such a degree by the time of matriculation, from an ACOE accredited school/college of optometry.

Applicant will furnish an official transcript from his/her school/college of optometry. The ideal candidate will have a cumulative grade point average greater than 3.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale in the professional optometric curriculum.

Applicant must pass all parts of the National Board of Examiners in Optometry examinations required for Colorado licensure and furnish official transcripts when available. If accepted, the resident must be able to obtain a Colorado optometry license prior to the July 1 starting date of the residency program.

Three letters of recommendation are required. It is requested that one of the letters come from someone outside the profession of optometry/ophthalmology.

Candidates must provide a brief essay stating reasons for applying to this program.

Finalists will be invited for a personal interview by the residency selection committee.

The resident will be selected from among candidates of whom if hired, can present evidence of legal right to live and work in the United States.

All applicants will be evaluated for selection without regard to sex, race, color, creed, age, national origin, or non-disqualifying physical disabilities.