Overview
Five-year residency with on average about 20 residents, rotating through glaucoma, retina, oculoplastics/orbit, strabismus and paediatrics, cornea and cataract, uveitis and neuro-ophthalmology, with stepwise surgical training (wetlab, Eyesi) and placements at Zonnestraal Eye Hospital and OLVG.
The programme
- Training type
- Specialist training programme
- Duration
- 5 years
- Start
- Not stated on official page
- Positions
- About 20 residents in training at any time
- Accreditation
- Dutch specialist training in ophthalmology (opleiding tot oogarts); one of eight NOG-listed training clinics
- Department
- Not stated on official page
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- Medical doctors; research or clinical (ANIOS) experience in ophthalmology recommended
- International applicants
- Not stated on official page
- Visa support
- Not stated on official page
- Licence requirement
- BIG registration as a physician in the Netherlands required
How to apply
- Deadline
- Not stated on official page
- Application method
- Contact the training secretariat (r.i.parti@amsterdamumc.nl)
Funding
- Funding
- Salaried AIOS (resident) post
Official sources
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