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Category: resident surgeons
1600: this resident loves MIGS
When you are a resident, make it a point of learning as much as possible. Do a wide variety of … More
1599: leaky paracentesis causes issues
You may think that a paracentesis incision is trivial and has little effect on the case, but that is not … More
1598: resident posterior polar cataract
We have covered posterior polar cataracts so many times that there is a separate category for these tricky cases. The … More
1597: Final case of UCLA Residency
I have always marched to beat of my own drum and I never wanted to be in full-time academic medicine … More
1596: resident divide and conquer
While I prefer variations of phaco chop for most of my cataract surgery cases, residents typically start learning cataract surgery … More
1577: improvement after 100 surgeries
Our anonymous resident surgeon submitted a video of routine cataract surgery which we featured a few months ago as video … More
1576: three techniques of nucleus division
Our guest surgeon today is a young resident from Brazil who sent in a video showing him performing three different … More
1570: surgeon learns flip and chop
Our video is from an anonymous young surgeon in Australia who has learned the technique of flip and chop. The … More
1552: skill level after 250 cases done
Another anonymous USA resident sent me a video of the last case of residency, case number 250 where the nucleus … More
1543: resident pre-chopper technique
There are many ways to disassemble the nucleus into smaller fragments and the pre-chopper technique works well. This is a … More
1542: tough resident cataract case
This is a very tough resident cataract case and there are some complications. The most important point is that the … More
1541: iris got caught in the phaco probe
The iris is a delicate and dynamic tissue that can inadvertently be aspirated into our phaco probe or irrigation/aspiration probe … More
1538: resident flip and chop case
Continuing with our theme of studying resident cataract surgeries in July, this case showcases a young resident from Brazil who … More
1537: graduating from divide + conquer
How can you tell when it’s time for you to graduate from divide-and-conquer? You certainly need to attain some degree … More
1536: improve your divide-and-conquer
Most resident surgeons start learning phaco with the divide-and-conquer technique for a good reason. This technique is not time dependent, … More
1535: resident capsulorhexis rescue
Learning the capsulorhexis is one of the toughest steps of cataract surgery. In this case, a resident surgeon encounters a … More
1534: a resident’s first phaco chop
We are in the middle of July and that means that ophthalmology residents in the USA are starting the academic … More
1533: handholding for your first phaco
Seasoned ophthalmologists frequently ask the technique for helping a resident surgeon complete that very first cataract surgery case. As we … More
1531: what happened to bimanual phaco?
Many of our surgeons use bimanual irrigation/aspiration during cataract surgery and certainly all retina surgeons perform bimanual vitrectomy, so what … More