Dorn VAMC
Residency Program / Facility Description
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The
WJB Dorn VA Medical Center is a
244-bed facility, encompassing acute medical, surgical, psychiatric, and
long-term care. The hospital provides primary, secondary, and some tertiary
care. The hospital operates a 112-bed Nursing Home Care Unit adjacent to the
hospital. Satellite outpatient clinics are located in Anderson, Greenville,
Florence, Orangeburg, Sumter and Rock Hill, SC. Dorn VAMC and the University of
South Carolina School of Medicine share the same campus.
The Eye
Clinic is situated in a beautiful, new two story building adjacent to the main
part of the hospital. Dorn VAMC eye services include both ophthalmology and
optometry providing veteran patients full service eye care. Specialties include
cornea, retina, neurophthalmology, glaucoma, oculoplastics, retina, low vision,
and specialty contact lenses.
The Eye
Clinic houses an optical department staffed with a contract optician. Optometry
is staffed by an experienced technician and both ophthalmology and optometry
make use of an in-house contract technician who performs visual fields on a full
time basis. Additional state-of-the-art equipment, such as a digital camera and
ultrasonography further enhances our ability to provide full scope primary,
secondary and tertiary eye care.
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The DORN
VAMC residency is fully accredited by the Council on Optometric Optometric
Education. Optometric externs and University of South Carolina medical students
rotate through the Dorn Eye Clinic. Since 1994, many optometric students from
PCO and SCO have chosen Dorn as their primary care/ocular disease site.
Many
educational opportunities exist to enhance one’s residency education. Among them
are ophthalmology and optometry grand rounds conferences and internal medicine
lunch conferences, all of which are held weekly. Internet access is readily
available for each provider, including residents. Dorn VAMC houses a library;
the USC School of Medicine offers a newly-renovated medical library as well.
Both are nearby for easy access.
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