Family Practice
Optometry at West Tennessee Eye
Residency Program Description
The
doctors and team members at West Tennessee Eye look forward to having you as a
part of our vision and medical eye care team. We will provide you with a
clinical environment that will foster personal and professional growth and
compliment your academic training. We look to move you beyond your comfort zones
and provide you with new opportunities of development. We want to work with you
to correct the deficiencies you believe you have in your training. We strongly
believe our practice is unmatched by another private practice in the
opportunities we can offer residents.
West
Tennessee Eye is a comprehensive eye care company offering complete medical and
vision services to a diverse patient population in three primary eye care
centers, and two-satellite clinic, which are supported by a separate corporate
division. The eye physician team consists of three partners, Dr. Dohrn, Dr.
Cooper and Dr. Talley. There are two associates, Dr. Lee and Dr. Wroten, and
three independent eye surgeons, Dr. Gollamudi, Dr.Irvine and Dr. Linder. They
work with more than 30 clinic and administrative team members to carry on our
30-year history of patient care in West Tennessee.
Our recent
quarter of a million dollar investment in new technology provides residents with
clinical experience on state of the art instruments. You will become proficient
on Topcon’s newest digital fluorescein angiography and photography system,
ImageNet. With our in office laser surgery facilities residents actively
participate in preoperative and immediate post-operative care of patients
needing procedures like focal and pan retinal photocoagulation, iridotomy,
trabeculoplasty, and capsulotomy. Residents perform minor surgical procedures,
such as papilloma removal, chalazion incision and curettage and cyst drainage.
The quarterly “Advanced Ophthalmic Practice Series” (AOPS) enhances your
clinical knowledge.
This residency is grounded in traditional optometric services. Residents see a
large volume of patients and refine their refractive skills and gain valuable
experience in contact lens services. The ophthalmic production division offers
students the opportunity to learn at a lab that produces over 1000 pairs of
glasses per month.
Rounding out the West Tennessee Eye residency is an emphasis on practice
management. You will learn proper medical record documentation, coding and
billing based on Medicare and Vision Service Plan guidelines. You will observe
contemporary business models and management styles in practice. You will gain
extensive insight into the federally mandated Medicare Compliance Program and
Occupational Safety Hazard Administration’s standards.
You will
learn how to thrive in a managed care environment while being dedicated to
excellence in eyecare.
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