Residents Benefit from Refractive Surgical Training

Second-year residents, Han Kim, MD, Alex Ringeisen, MD and Angeline Wang, MD recently attended the Resident Refractive Surgery Course presented by the University of Iowa Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. Dr. Sarah Nehls, cornea specialist with Wisconsin’s Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, participates each year as an invited instructor and accompanied the group to Iowa City. The course included a series of lectures on refractive surgery, the VISX Certification Course, and hands-on experience in the wet lab with Intralase/VISX laser and Lasik flap suturing, as well as a session in the Corneal Topography practice lab. (Photos courtesy of the University of Iowa).