At NYU Langone’s Division of Neuro-Ophthalmology, we offer educational opportunities for medical students, residents, and fellows.

Medical Student Education

We introduce students at NYU Grossman School of Medicine to the field of neuro-ophthalmology through lectures, grand rounds, and hands-on clinical care. When medical students participate in clinical care, they have the opportunity to see patients independently with immediate subsequent direct one-on-one supervision.

Through this process, they learn to take a detailed visual and neurological history from the patient, hear patients describe unusual visual phenomena, and learn to translate these visual descriptions into specific localizable deficits along the brain’s visual pathways. They also learn an examination skill set that is quite unique with regard to testing optic nerve function and eye movement disorders.

Medical students also frequently participate in research projects in our division and take ownership of their project through to the end-points of presentation at national meetings and manuscript publication.

Resident Education

Residents in the Departments of Neurology and Ophthalmology spend time in our division through elective rotations. They work directly with faculty in assessment of patients, and have the opportunity to join ongoing research meetings and projects.

Elective rotations are typically one or two weeks in duration. Neurology residents in their first year of training also spend time in our clinics as part of their subspecialty rotations, which are brief half day clinical experiences that offer an opportunity for early outpatient exposure to the subspecialty.

During elective rotations, residents see patients independently with immediate subsequent direct one-on-one supervision. Through this process, they learn to take a detailed visual and neurological history from the patient, hear patients describe unusual visual phenomena, and learn to translate these visual descriptions into specific localizable deficits along the brain’s visual pathways. They also learn an examination skill set that is quite unique with regard to testing optic nerve function and eye movement disorders.

Current residents can download our rotator schedule through Brightspace (a Kerberos ID and password are required).

We also host regular resident lectures on a variety of topics, including optic neuritis, idiopathic intracranial hypertension, intracranial visual pathway disorders, pupillary disorders, cranial neuropathies, nystagmus, and more. Current residents can access previously recorded lectures and corresponding textbook sections online through Brightspace (a Kerberos ID and password are required), including those from the textbook Liu, Volpe, and Galetta’s Neuro-ophthalmology.

Neuro-Ophthalmology Fellowship

We offer a one-year Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology (AUPO)–compliant fellowship in neuro-ophthalmology. Our fellows gain the knowledge and comprehensive experience needed to expertly diagnose and manage patients with neuro-ophthalmologic disorders.

Training in our large neuro-ophthalmology division with many faculty members offers fellows exposure to differing practice styles and methods of disease management. Direct clinical and research mentorship are key to our program during the one-year duration of the fellowship and thereafter as fellows proceed through their careers.

Neuro-Ophthalmology Conferences

Numerous conferences are available throughout the year at national, regional, and institutional level with a variety of educational and presentation opportunities. Monthly neuro-ophthalmology conferences alternates between case presentations and neuro-radiology.

Faculty provide an annual resident simulation course in ophthalmic fundoscopy and ocular alignment examination skills for assessment of diplopia. Joint neuro-ophthalmology and multiple sclerosis conferences also occur throughout the year.

Our team regularly attends and presents at the annual meetings of the North American Neuro-ophthalmology Society, the American Academy of Neurology, and the American Academy of Ophthalmology.

To access our neuro-ophthalmology conference schedule, login to Brightspace (a Kerberos ID and password are required).

Contact Us

To learn more about educational opportunities and events, please call 212-263-7744 and to speak with Division Director Janet C. Rucker, MD.