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My name is Andrew and I am a first year resident training to be an ophthalmologist. I created ShortWhiteCoats to provide medical students, residents, and the public with all the information I spent so many hours looking for during medical school.
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Samantha
April 5, 2012 at 7:46 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Hi,
I was wondering if you have any information on what the salary for an optometrist with 10 years of experiences is in Los Angeles. Thank you in advance for any information that you can give me.
Samantha
Andrew
June 11, 2012 at 12:30 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Samantha,
I am training to be an ophthalmologist and I do not have much information on optometrists. Anything I say would be a guess. I would google “optometrist salary california” and see what you can find. As far as ophthalmologists in CA with 10 years of experience, they will be averaging about $200k-$300k.
Thanks,
Andrew
Mike Frazier
April 10, 2012 at 6:50 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Andrew,
I don’t know how you are keeping this site up during your intern year. You are the MAN!
I have a website, http://www.medical-school-insider.com that has a similar mission as this site. Giving premeds info they need to get into medical school and succeed once there.
I just matched into psychiatry. I have an article about how I scored well on Step 1 that might be useful for your site. I could also do a “spotlight” for you about psychiatry if you’d like.
Keep up the good work! Good luck in ophtho!
Mike
James
July 20, 2012 at 3:48 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Hello Andrew,
My wife is currently a resident in her final year. I looked at all the study material that is provided and they are expensive and some don’t add much value. I am a doing a market analysis as to residents that would be interested in an online service that provides study material as well as exams for board preparation. The information I am looking for is what yearly fee would they be willing too pay? What type of specialty would be interested in such a program? What board test prep courses are the most used per specialty?
Thank you,
James
Rebecca Knight
August 15, 2012 at 8:18 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
We’re about to put up a much better website. I could give you perspective on the following:
Internal Medicine practice
fellowship in Women’s Health (If I had it to do again definitely would do this plus Endo)
Working for hospital and why I left
Working for yourself
creating a multi-disciplinary clinic
Ophthoboard
September 24, 2012 at 11:36 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Andrew,
I have been following your site throughout my third year and gained plenty of insight from it. I am a MS4 currently applying to ophthalmology. As a medical student, it is sometimes difficult to gain exposure to ophthalmology. It is not a required rotation, and little time is spent on ophthalmic conditions in basic science courses. Several of my classmates ask me how I was able to develop an interest in this fascinating field, who I went to for guidance, and where I was able to find research. It was not easy. Little information was available how to pursue the field and I was not sure who to ask at first.
To help medical students and residents gain more insight and have questions answered about this field, I developed a small forum: http://ophthoboard.com/
The forum just started out, but there are a number of residents and attendings already part of it to help answer questions for medical students. There are sections for general questions, research opportunities, events, and even a classifieds section. I already emailed everyone at my home institution about the forum, but have no way of contacting students at other medical schools. Would it be possible for you to link me in your “specialty spotlights” section? I want this resource to be available to everyone interested in the field.
I also have a dedicated section called “interview of the month,” where I interview various ophthalmologists about their journey into this field and ask a few questions to give advice to medical students. I would be honored to interview you to post in the residents section, as you can surely offer great advice to medical students regarding ophthalmology. Please let me know. Thank you.
Anonymous
March 17, 2013 at 9:16 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I am wondering what a neurologist who takes an interventional fellowship can expect to earn ? where do I go I cannot find on AGME site Please advise .would be happy to pay for info
Andrew
March 30, 2013 at 8:38 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I an not a neurologist and do not know where you might find this information. If I were you, I would talk to an interventional neurologist.
Thanks.