Externship Site
Lexington VA
ICO STUDENTS ACCEPTED EACH QUARTER
Essentials
Location
2250 Leestown Rd
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Lexington
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U.S.A.
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South East U.S.
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Description
Discontinued 01/2022.
VA clinic with 9 exam lanes, 4 specialty testing areas including OCT, HVF, GVF, posterior segment photos, topography. 5 attending doctors, 4 residents and externs from several schools.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Become more efficient in examining geriatric patients.
Become more comfortable managing ocular disease.
Become more proficient in utilizing and understanding specialty testing.
Number of Student Encounters
Average number of patients per week per student:
35
35
How many are full exams?
How many are special testing?
20
How many are observation only?
Relative Percentage of Student Encounters
5
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4
% = Routine Refractive
% = Contact Lens
% = Ocular Disease
% = Pediatric / Binocular Vision
% = Low Vision
Facility Details
Required equipment:
Clinic coat
Contact for externship liason:
Breyne Middleton, OD
breyne.middleton2@va.gov
859-233-4511 x 3687
Arrival procedure for students:
Contact Dr. Middleton 2 months in advance for information related to VA paperwork and requirements. Park in parking Lot C behind the main buildings and proceed through the "visitors" entrance to the third floor in Building 1 (Optometry Department) and ask for Dr. Middleton.
Attending Staff - Full Time:
Breyne Middleton, OD (Ocular Disease)
Candice Rice, OD (Ocular Disease)
Drew Anderson, OD (Ocular Disease)
Tara Folz, OD (Ocular Disease)
Attending Staff - Part Time:
Ashley Rone, OD (Ocular Disease)
Miscellaneous comments:
Ophthalmological services at the Cooper Drive VAMC location.
Additional Information:
Click here to review onboarding requirements. If you do not see your site listed on Sharepoint, contact your preceptor directly.
Student Review
If you are interested in ocular disease, THIS IS YOUR SITE! The preceptors are great and invested in your education. You get to shadow the neuro-ophthalmologist and genetic retina specialist from time to time and will learn a lot about obscure systemic diseases. You will definitely be exposed to a good amount of peds (from aphakic babies to ocular albinism) since Dr. Sanders is a pediatric optometrist. She is very patient and will teach you to tolerate (if not love) peds. There is also an opportunity to dabble in speciality contacts and you get to fit sclerals and RGP with Dr. Piery.
Ocular Disease
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Facility category:
Ocular Disease (Specialty 2)
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Facility website
Student Clinic Hours
5:30 pm
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Additional Info about Hours:
Externs will work four, 10 hour days. They participate in conference 7:00-7:20am Mon-Wed and Journal Club Thurs 7:00-7:30am.
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