Primary Care/Health/LV
VA NORTHERN INDIANA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, FORT WAYNE CAMPUS
Site 1:
Optometry Clinic (112B)
2121 Lake Avenue
Fort Wayne, IN 46805
Phone: 260-460-1442
Fax: 260-421-1823
Type of Practice: Veterans Administration Hospital and Outpatient Clinic
Mission:
- In support of one of the three major missions of the Veterans Health Administration, the Fort Wayne campus of the NIHCS participates in the training of fourth year optometry students.
- The optometry program is dedicated to providing a high level of clinical training and didactic education to its students so that upon graduation, they are prepared to deliver quality ophthalmic care to the public.
Orientation Instructions:
Contact Dr. Sara Schamerloh or Dr. Traci Seng 6 weeks prior to the first day of the rotation to verify dates, times, directions, parking and any other instructions. Report to the address above at 8:00 a.m. the first day of the rotation for orientation to clinic policies and protocol, administrative procedures, etc. You should bring your clinic jacket, condensing lenses, retinoscope, transilluminator, ophthalmoscope and binocular indirect ophthalmoscope. Completion of the hepatitis B series is required (unless waiver is signed) and annual TB testing must be completed. BE CERTAIN TO TAKE YOUR CURRENT CPR CRD, TB TEST RESTULTS CARD, AND HEP B (OR WAIVER FORM) TO EACH OF YOUR ROTATION SITES. You will also be required to provide a photo drivers license or passport and social security card or original/certified copy of birth certificate.
If you have any questions, please contact our office at (231) 591-2202 (Elizabeth Spedoske, Assistant Dean’s Office) or (231) 591-2180 (Dr. Bruce Morgan, Director of Externships).
Faculty:
Contact Person:
Sara Schamerloh, O.D.
E-Mail: sara.schamerloh@va.gov
Traci Seng, OD
E-Mail: traci.seng@va.gov
Clinical Teaching Faculty: Sara Schamerloh, O.D.
Other Clinical Mentors:
Wendy Moyle, O.D. 
Traci Seng, O.D.
Aaron Case, O.D.
Primary Care/Ocular Disease Resident (2)
Support Staff: 2 Ophthalmic Technicians/1 Scheduling Clerk
Schedule:
Operating Hours: M-F, 7:30am-4:00pm
Hours of direct patient care for extern per day:
8 (40 per week)
Number of patients seen by extern per day: 6-9
Educational Objectives:
- To improve basic physical, psychophysical, and medical science foundations.
- To further enhance and develop new technical clinical skills and testing protocols by providing clinical experiences with appropriate guidance by the faculty.
- To further enhance clinical assessment, judgment, and management capabilities.
- To improve knowledge of psychosocial factors, i.e. adjustment to vision loss or memory loss which affect patient attitudes and responses influencing patient understanding and compliance, especially in the geriatric population.
- To expand professional communication and interdisciplinary (medical and non-medical) interaction capabilities.
- To learn methods for continued professional development.
Scope of the Externship:
* Average Number of Patient Examinations
Rotation 1 = 381
Rotation 2 = 712
Rotation 3 = 118
* Average Number of Patient Examinations
Rotation 1 = 344
Rotation 2 = 239
Rotation 3 = 385
* Average Number of Patient Examinations
Rotation 1 = 365
Rotation 2 = 302
Rotation 3 = 375
* Average Number of Patient Examinations
Rotation 1 = 379
Rotation 2 = 419
Rotation 3 = 359
* Average Number of Patient Examinations
Rotation 1 = 277
Rotation 3 = 390
PC - Primary Care, CL - Contact Lens, VT - VT Evaluation, LV - LV Evaluation, PD - Pediatric, OD - Ocular Disease, F/U - F/U to monitor Tx plan, PRE - Pre-op, POST - Post-op, SC - Screening/ total numbers, SU - Surgeries observed
Housing:
- Not provided by the facility
- Approximate cost: $450/mo.
Community:
- Parks, Museums, Minor League Baseball, Concerts, Shopping, University, Symphony
- Indianapolis: ~2 hours away; Chicago: ~3 hours away
Miscellaneous:
- 3 hours each week is set aside for formal lecture/conference
- Reference library available for student use
- Internet access available
- The clinic accepts one student from MCO and one student from Indiana University
- Multi-Disciplinary Health Services:
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- Psychology |
- Social Work |
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- Primary Care Physicians |
- Audiology |
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- Physician Assistants |
- Nurse Practitioners |
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- Nursing |
- Pharmacy |
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- Radiology |
- Lab |
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- Other specialties as needed |
- Auxiliary Equipment:
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- Anterior Segment Photographic Biomicroscope |
- Humphrey Visual Field Analyzer II, model 750 |
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- Fundus Contact Lenses |
- Digital Fundus Camera |
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- Gonioscopy Lenses |
- BIO with condensing lens |
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- Contrast Senstivity |
- Fundus Non-contact lenses |
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- OCT |
- Corneal Pachymeter |
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- Auto Lensometer |
- Tangent Screen |
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- Tonopen, Perkins |
- Zeiss Fundus Camera with Fluorescein/ICG and Digital - Capabilities |
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- TV/VCR - educational videos |
- YAG, Argon, SLT, and CO2 Lasers |
| - B and A Scan Ultrasonography | - Autorefractor/Autokeratometer |
| - HRT-3 | |
| -FDT fields | - IOL Master |
| - Potential Acuity Meter | - SLT and CO2 lasers |
| - Handheld Slitlamp | - Heidelberg Spectralis (high definition OCT & HRA) |
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-High Resolution Ultrasound Biomicroscopy |
