<p>I think BRM or BDM posted this before that people who want to go on the ROAD (acronym with O as ophth.) should get into a good medical school for job opportunities. Why is this so for this particular field?</p>
<p>Once you're board-certified in, say, general surgery, nobody really cares where you did your residency, what medical school you went to, etc. Ask around: doctors will universally tell you that very, very few of their patients ever ask where they went to school. Doctors usually keep their diplomas tucked away in offices that patients never see -- a far cry from CEOs.</p>
<p>The problem is that getting ANY kind of residency in those four fields is pretty tough, and so you need every boost you can find. It's in this case that you're better advised to go to a more selective medical school.</p>
<p>In other words, it's not that your residency has to be a prestigious ophtho residency. It's that even the normal ones are hard to get.</p>
<p>Try applying to schools that have ophto residencies. Schools tend to like there own plus you get to know the people in that dept. and find research that will esp help you with you CV and finding connections.</p>
<p>JHU doesn't seem to like its own. some other schools are probably the same.</p>
<p>Where's a list of schools with ophtho. residencies?</p>
<p>The best I could find. <a href="http://grants.nih.gov/grants/award/rank/MedSchool_Departments.cfm?Department=OPHTHALMOLOGY%5B/url%5D">http://grants.nih.gov/grants/award/rank/MedSchool_Departments.cfm?Department=OPHTHALMOLOGY</a></p>
<p>Just go the schools website and find the departments section.</p>