Practice model may evolve with upcoming ophthalmologist shortage

Every year at the OSN New York and Retina meeting, in a superb educational forum, Eric Donnenfeld, MD, presents a series of cornea and external disease medical management cases for discussion by a panel of experts.
But rather than discussing the diagnosis and management of the cases in this issue’s cover story, I thought I would use this space to focus on workforce issues in eye care.
In 1996, the American Academy of Ophthalmology commissioned a study by the RAND Corporation on workforce issues in our field. In that study, (Read more...)

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