Residency Manual

Residency Program Supervisor's Responsibilities A. Supervisor’s Responsibilities • Recruits high quality/caliber candidates for the residency program • Is responsible for all aspects of the residency candidate application process including ORMatch • Develops, implements and monitors: the curriculum (including the clinical, didactic, and scholarly aspects); the mission, goals and objectives; and the advanced competencies of the residency program • Participates in the Resident Friday/Didactic Program • Develops the resident’s clinical program schedule and works with the appropriate individuals at their sites such as clinic chiefs and laboratory instructors to implement the program’s mission, goals, and objectives • Provides guidance to each resident in their scholarly and didactic activities • Evaluates the resident and provides the resident with feedback • Monitor the resident’s progress throughout the residency for appropriate increasing levels of independence • Monitors the resident’s clinical activities including their patient logs and weekly activity report • Monitors the resident’s progress in attaining the program’s Advanced Competencies • Provide direction for faculty who are assigned to work with the resident and evaluate the core faculty who are involved in the resident’s training • Monitor program outcomes and program improvements • Write the Annual Report for the Accreditation Council on Optometric Education and review with Director of Residency Education • Prepare self-study for accreditation • Monitor program to assure it meets the standards of the Accreditation Council on Optometry Education • Reports to the Director of Residency Education B. MEDITREK (Supervisor Instructions) ( Appendix O ) Meditrek is a web-based system to collect, store, summarize and report residents’ patient logs and evaluations. It is supplied by HSoft Corporation, a leading service provider for Academic Medicine. To Access your individualized Meditrek Welcome page, please follow the steps below:  Direct your browser to http://www.meditrek.com  Open and read the TERMS OF USE, since use of the site means that you accept these terms.  Click on the REGISTERED USER LOGIN label, and then enter your login credentials which you will receive under separate email.  Click OK.  Your welcome page will be displayed. Click on the Internet Portal (upper right), which gives you access to the User’s Guide for Meditrek. Please open it and read it.  Return to your Welcome page, read the instructions, and then you may start processing your pending evaluations.  To access the Summary Patient Log of your residents, please click the Access Non Scheduled Forms label at the bottom of your welcome page.

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C. Evaluation of Residents On a quarterly basis, Residency Program Supervisors evaluate residents using Meditrek. See

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