Beginning with Karl Stock, M.D.,the first graduating ophthalmology resident in 1943, a total of 140 ophthalmologists have been trained by the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Oklahoma. Since 1975, the Dean A. McGee Eye Institute has housed the Department of Ophthalmology for the University of Oklahoma. Gregory L. Skuta, M.D. is the President of the Dean A. McGee Eye Institute and Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology.

Our residency program is three residents being matched every  all of the major subspecialty including: corneal and external and surgical diseases of the  oculoplastic diseases, neuro-

years in length with four new year. Patient care is provided in areas of ophthalmology diseases, glaucoma, medical retina and vitreous, orbital and ophthalmology, pediatric

ophthalmology and stabismus, cataract surgery and lens implantation, pathology and oncology, contact lenses, trauma and low vision services.

At the Dean McGee Eye Institute, our faculty pledge is to provide residents with the best quality training to prepare them for careers in private clinical practice or in an academic environment. In return, we expect residents to devote themselves to the educational process, their patients, and to the advancement of the field of ophthalmology.

A major expansion of the Dean McGee Eye Institute is currently underway. Expected to reach completion in about 2 years, this structure will double available clinical space and will provide needed research space for an expanding eye science research department that has been in the top 10 of NEI funding for many years. In addition, the building expansion will increase the resident clinic space by fifty percent.