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Michiana Eye Center

Hammock Relaxing

ICO STUDENTS ACCEPTED EACH QUARTER

Essentials

Location

230 E Day Road Suite 100

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Mishawaka

IN

46614

U.S.A.

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Midwest U.S.

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Description

This multispecialty practice allows the student to see emergency cases, specialty contact lenses, work with on-site ophthalmology and in the new state of the art Advanced Dry Eye Treatment Center (with Lipiview, BlephEx, and IPL) and observe surgical procedures. Experience with low vision exams are available to the student in our South Bend office.

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
1. Improve knowledge and flow of the dry eye patient examination
2. Improve overall exam efficiency
3. Develop greater understanding of addressing patient needs with a problem focused exam

Number of Student Encounters

Average number of patients per week per student:

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How many are special testing?

How many are observation only?

Relative Percentage of Student Encounters

40

35

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8

2

% = Routine Refractive

% = Contact Lens

% = Ocular Disease

% = Pediatric / Binocular Vision

% = Low Vision

Facility Details

Required equipment:

Contact for externship liason: 

Pam Wise, OD
eyedocpam@gmail.com
574-271-3939

Arrival procedure for students:

Contact Dr. Wise 2-4 weeks prior to start of rotation.

Attending Staff - Full Time:
Pam Wise, OD (Primary Care, Contact Lens, Ocular Disease)
Shannan Brown, OD (Primary Care, Contact Lens, Ocular Disease)
Andrew Anderson, OD (Primary Care, Contact Lens, Ocular Disease)
Lauren Sanchez, OD (Primary Care, Contact Lens, Vision Rehabilitation, Ocular Disease)
Stephanie Baxter, OD (Primary Care, Contact Lens, Ocular Disease)
David Sonnenburg, OD (Primary Care, Contact Lens, Ocular Disease)
Kevin Danahey, OD (Primary Care, Contact Lens, Ocular Disease)
Kevin Baxter, DO (oculoplastics) (Ocular Disease)
Laura Cavadini, DO (Ocular Disease)

Attending Staff - Part Time:
Richard Weiss, MD (Glaucoma, Cataracts)

Miscellaneous comments:

Additional Information:

Click here to review onboarding requirements. If you do not see your site listed on Sharepoint, contact your preceptor directly.

Student Review

"This was an amazing site and I had an incredible experience here. It is a super busy clinic, which provides many opportunities to see a wide variety of cases. You get to work up your patients from the beginning of the exam to the end, which I found this helpful for Part 3 preparation. It is a huge practice with 5 offices but you spend most of your time at the Mishawaka office. The office uses NexGen for EHR so it was a nice transition from IEI. Everyone is super nice and helpful. Anytime an interesting case or rare ocular disease is in the office the docs make a specific point to bring you in so you can get a good look at it. The office is fully equipped, all exam lanes have everything you need so you don’t have to bring anything! The practice is an ophthalmology practice so everything is in plus cylinder, this was probably one of the biggest things I had to adjust to."

They are also a fully equipped dry eye clinic. They have all dry eye testing equipment including LipiView and LipiFlow. The doc that mostly handles the dry eye cases is in the main office 1-2 days a week so you get a good amount of experience with the more complex dry eye work ups."

Ocular Disease

Facility specialties:

Facility category:

Ocular Disease (Specialty 2)

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Student Clinic Hours

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Additional Info about Hours:

Saturday open 8:00-12:00. Student hours TBD during orientation.

Private

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