No Place to Go: Challenges Ahead for Creating Tomorrow's Ophthalmologists

Ophthalmology and all of medicine are facing a potential crisis in the funding of graduate medical education (residency programs). Medical school enrollment is projected to increase by 30 percent by 2016 (compared to 2002), while at the same time the major funders of residencies in the United States have proposed a deep cut in funding over the next 10 years. American Academy of Ophthalmology CEO David W. Parke II, M.D., highlights the critical challenges facing graduate medical education funding that, if left unsolved, could leave up to 30 percent of U.S. medical students unable to find a residency -- anywhere. Ophthalmology could be particularly impacted, through a reduction in residency slots and preference given to saving primary slots.

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