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The University Hospital is a 473-bed Level I trauma center that serves as the tertiary referral center for Lexington, the eastern half of Kentucky, and border regions of Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, and Tennessee. The facility includes a 25 bed state-of-the-art emergency department, seven intensive care units (divided among medicine and surgical specialties), the UK Children’s Hospital, the UK Birthing Center, the UK Gamma Knife Center, and the Markey Cancer Center. The majority of ophthalmology resident time in the University Hospital is spent in the UK Outpatient Surgical Center and emergency department. Residents also spend time in the hospital during the ophthalmology consultations dispersed throughout the second and third years.
Kentucky Clinic Eye Center
The Eye Clinic is an outpatient facility which includes faculty offices, 30 fully furnished ophthalmology examination lanes, an electrophysiology testing room, a blink kinematics study room, contact lens facility, two fully furnished operating rooms, two laser procedure rooms, and an ophthalmic photography center. The newest addition to this facility was completed in December 2000 and includes the ophthalmology library, conference center, the resident’s lounge, locker facility, and computer center. All residents spend the majority of time in this facility during the three years of training.
This facility is a modern 346-bed facility of which the majority of time is spent in the Veterans Eye Clinic. This clinic includes three fully furnished ophthalmology examination rooms, two technician work-up lanes, two fully equipped laser rooms for YAG and argon laser treatment, a business office, and a resident’s lounge. The clinic is staffed by three residents, one from each year, at all times throughout the year. The majority of surgical training during the residency is performed while on the VA rotation.
Central Baptist Hospital
This facility is a 383-bed community-based hospital that also serves as a tertiary referral center for Lexington and the eastern half of Kentucky. Second-year residents share rotation time at this facility while on the Cornea and External Disease rotation. The time at this facility is divided between clinical patient care in a private practice setting and surgical exposure in the newly completed Outpatient Surgical Center.
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