BronxCare Health System Program

Program Identity & Fit

BronxCare's Ophthalmology Residency is a safety-net, community-based program in the South Bronx offering a required Ophthalmology-focused Transitional Year within its own Family Medicine department, followed by three years of core training. The program is built around active resident participation and reports surgical volumes among the highest on the East Coast, producing graduates with strong hands-on surgical and independent decision-making skills. Faculty span private practice, academia, and industry, and the program explicitly wants residents who are "creators"—generating case reports, review articles, and quality-improvement projects—while networking across NYC's ophthalmology community. The linguistically and culturally diverse South Bronx population, combined with a research-active resident cohort (many arriving with prior fellowships, publications, and PhDs), signals a program that blends heavy clinical/surgical service with scholarly output as a pathway to competitive subspecialty fellowships.