OCULOPLASTIC SURGERY & ORBIT
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Year One
Clinical Education
- Basic anatomy of the orbital and lid structures
- Basic treatment of orbital and lid trauma
- Preoperative and post-operative assessment of common oculoplastic disorders
- Basic orbital cellulitis
- Basic orbital trauma
- Trichiasis
- Blepharospasm and hemifacial spasm
- Common orbital tumors in children
- Differential diagnosis of orbital tumors
- Differential diagnosis of lacrimal gland mass
- Normal orbital anatomy of orbital imaging
- MRI
- CT
- Ultrasound
- Floppy eyelid syndrome
- Fetal alcohol syndrome
Technical Education
- Basic office examination techniques
- For orbit
- For lids
- For lacrimal system
- For anophthamic socket
- Minor lid procedures
- Small lid lesions and biopsy
- Chalazia
- Tarsorrhaphy
- Conjunctival biopsy
- Punctal plug insertion and removal
- Treatment of trichiasis
- Simple enucleation and evisceration
Year Two
Clinical Education
- Advanced eyelid, lacrimal, and orbital anatomy
- Common congenital eyelid anomalies
- Congenital orbital anomalies
- Craniosynostosis and cranial fusion syndromes
- Pre- and post-operative assessment of multidisciplinary oculoplastic disorders
- Advanced eyelid, orbital, and lacrimal trauma
- Nasolacrimal duct obstruction
- Orbital tumors
- Thyroid eye disease
- Orbital inflammatory pseudotumor
Technical Education
- Advanced oculoplastic exam
- Orbit
- Facial plastics and lids
- Lacrimal system
- Anophthalmic socket
- More advanced lid procedures
- Basic trachoma repair
- Biopsy and excision of moderate sized lid lesions
- Treatment of orbital trauma
- Imaging of common orbital pathology
- Treatment of common preseptal and orbital cellulitis
- Lacrimal procedures
- Testing of lacrimal drainage
- Lacrimal intubation
- Dacryocystorhinostomy
Year Three
Clinical Education
- Advanced anatomy and physiology of the eyelid, lacrimal structures and orbit
- Advanced trauma of the orbit, lacrimal structures and eyelids
- Advanced pre- and post-operative assessment of complex orbital disorders including the systemically ill and multidisciplinary patient
- Eyelid diseases
- Ectropion
- Entropion
- Myogenic ptosis
- Dermatochalasis
- Eyelid tumors
- Recurrent inflammatory lesions including chalazion and its mimics
- Facial dystonia
- Facial nerve palsies
Technical Education
- Perform complex lid procedures
- Biopsy of all lid lesions
- Repair of entropion, ectropion, lid laxity
- Lateral tarsal strip
- Lid sutures – Quickert suture, everting sutures, etc…
- Medial spindle
- Retractor reinsertion
- Other techniques and combined techniques for complex cases
- Levator advancement / ptosis repair
- Eyelid laceration and margin repair, including wedge resections for floppy eyelid syndrome
- Lateral canthoplasty
- Blepharoplasty
- Repair of complications of facial nerve palsy
- Eyelid reconstruction
- Orbital incisions and approaches
- Advanced lacrimal system repair
- Canalicular stenosis
- Conjunctivodacryocystorhinostomy
- Lacrimal drainage repair after trauma
- Treat complex anophthalmic socket complications (extrusion of inplants, etc…)
- Treat complex orbital disorders
- Uncommon preseptal and orbital cellulitis (fungal, mucor, orbital pseudotumor, etc…)
- Congenital orbital disorder (dermoid, etc…)
- Fibro-osseus disorder (osteoma, fibrous dysplasia, etc…)
- Vascular tumors (cavernous hemangioma, etc…)
- Xanthomatous tumors (JXG, etc…)
- Lacrimal gland tumors
- Neural tumors
- Rhabdomyosarcoma
- Orbital pseudotumor
- Lymphoid lesions and lymphoma
- Thyroid-related orbitopathy
- Metastatic tumors
- Trauma
- Basic orbitotomy skills
- Anterior orbitotomy for tumor biopsy / excision
- Orbital floor fracture repair
- Orbital decompression
- Optic nerve sheath fenestration
- Imaging of complex and uncommon orbital pathology
- Botox injections
