The Evolution of Ophthalmology in Rhode Island

摘要

The Rhode Island Hospital Ophthalmology Residency Pro- gram was established in 1963, nine years before Brown Uni- versity's Program in Medicine was created. DR. ANTHONY BROCCOLI was recruited as its first ophthalmology resi- dent. When the first medical school class enrolled at Brown in 1972, ophthalmology resident education was provided by a cohort of community-based physicians including DRS. H. FREDERICK STEPHENS (Ophthalmologist-in-Chief at RIH) , ALEXANDER CALENDA, CHARLES DOES, JOSEPH DOWLING, JOHN M AC IVER, RAYMOND M C KENDALL, LEO PRANIKOFF, NATHANIEL ROBINSON, and LIONEL SHEEHAN , all dedicated to teaching the next generation of ophthalmologists. The program, one resident per year, continued to graduate well- trained ophthalmologists and the number of voluntary fac- ulty continued to grow under the leadership of DR. ROBERT KINDER , who became Ophthalmologist-in-Chief in 1978.