About Ophthalmology Grand Rounds

The University of Iowa Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences is ranked one of the top eye hospitals by U.S. News as well as one of the Best Overall, Best Clinical and Best Residency Programs by Ophthalmology Times.

In 1925, Cecil Starling O’Brien, MD, was hired as the head of the newly autonomous Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Iowa. Dr. O'Brien started the tradition of daily morning rounds to teach residents at the bedside. Grand rounds at Iowa evolved from bedside to the clinic, and, under the guidance of then Department Head, Thomas A. Weingeist, PhD, MD, to the Braley Auditorium.

Grand rounds are held each weekday from 8:00 to 8:45 a.m. and are invaluable learning experiences for students, residents, and fellows. During grand rounds, interesting, difficult, and classic presentations of ophthalmic diseases are discussed. Under the direction of Department Head, Keith D. Carter, MD, rounds continue to be as strong a tradition today as they were in 1925.

This website contains a growing resource for students, residents, physicians, and patients. Over time, our site has gained momentum. We receive thousands of hits per day from over 40 countries.

We built an index of ophthalmology cases and photographs for teaching purposes. Many of these cases are presented during Grand Rounds at The University of Iowa, Department of Ophthalmology and in the ophthalmology forum on www.studentdoctor.net (a non-profit, educational website for students and physicians).

There are ophthalmology tutorials written by our physicians. There is also a section for our efforts in establishing tools for Competencies in Ophthalmology, which is headed by Andrew G. Lee, MD. We included pages on how to use an inexpensive, consumer grade digital camera to capture high-quality anterior segment and external photographs for clinical documentation.

We have added an online ophthalmic atlas that is freely searchable and uploadable by everyone. We invite other residency programs to partner with us to develop one of the most extensive ophthalmic atlas in the World.

These cases are intended for students, residents, and physicians. If you are seeking patient information, then please browse the section intended for patients.

If you would like to submit a case, then please read our guidelines. Photos and imaging studies must have all patient information or identifiable features removed before submission.

If you would like to submit a case, then please read our guidelines. Photos and imaging studies must have all patient information or identifiable features removed before submission.

DISCLAIMER & COPYRIGHT ©:

• Presentations are being made available for review purposes only.
• Material presented at morning rounds is presented to initiate discussion.
• Material presented may not be medically proven fact and should not be used to guide treatment.
• Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of Iowa.

Also see the "Editorial Board" page

About Our Founders

Dr. Tom Oetting is an Associate Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology at the University of Iowa. After graduating from Duke University School of Medicine, he completed an ophthalmology residency at the University of Iowa. He was in private practice in Missouri before turning to the University of Iowa where he serves as Chief of Ophthalmology at the Iowa City Veterans Medical Center and a member of the Comprehensive and Cataract Services at the University of Iowa. Dr. Oetting has served as the the Editor of EyeNet Morning Rounds for the last 7 years. He has a strong interest in developing educational materials for residents and physicians. His current research focus is studying how young physicians use the internet.  Dr. Oetting is an editor for EyeNet Morning Rounds, EyeRounds, and eyeOrbit.

After graduating from Reed College with a B.A. in Biology, Dr. Andrew Doan completed his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees in Neuroscience at The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine. As an ophthalmology resident at Iowa, he began archiving photographs of cases and Morning Rounds presentations. Dr. Doan started EyeRounds.org to share cases with students and physicians interested in ophthalmology. He completed an ocular pathology fellowship at the Jules Stein Eye Institute and now serves in the United States Navy as an officer and ophthalmologist.   Dr. Doan is an editor for EyeRounds and is a Staff Ophthalmologist in comprehensive ophthalmology and ocular pathology at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego where he trains residents.