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The mission of the University of Iowa Department of
Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences is to provide the highest quality, accessible
and cost-effective patient care while contributing to the global effort
to alleviate all diseases of the eye through teaching and research.
TO ACHIEVE THESE GOALS:
- We pledge to provide the highest quality
of ethical medical care to the people of Iowa and this region whom we
serve, and to all others who entrust us with their medical care.
- We strive to meet our educational
commitment by sharing our knowledge and understanding with our patients,
their families, students, resident and fellow trainees, and collaborating
colleagues in practice and academia.
- We accept the formidable challenge and
responsibility to advance medical knowledge of human vision through
basic and clinical research.
- We commit to our patients and to our
trainees and students the highest priority of our professional lives.
- We recognize that to accomplish our goals
we must work together as a team, support, encourage, recognize and reward
teaching others as we collaboratively share this solemn responsibility.
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