Is the job market for ophthalmologists in the United States promising?
The patient care needs for physician directed eye care will continue to increase with our aging population. Despite manipulations of the delivery system by bureaucrats, managers, and industry there will continue to be a significant need for quality, caring, comprehensive ophthalmologists. This belief fuels our desire to provide you with the most comprehensive clinical training and the maximum opportunity to compete for access to patients, which will ultimately be based upon your training, abilities, clinical outcomes, and efficiency of practice. We have made a conscious, collective effort to incorporate these end goal realities in our training program. In the Fall of 2000, the above beliefs were officially acknowledged in a presentation by an AMA Task Force on Physician Manpower. For the first time in nearly a decade, a large and leading organization took the position that we were facing a shortage in specialties broadly, including ophthalmology, in the next five to ten years. Further,