Residency Placements
Berkeley Optometry has an excellent track record for residency placements. As the table below indicates, a comparison of successful placements versus the total number of applicants has been impressive.
What is a Residency?
One-year post-graduate mentored residency programs provide advanced clinical education in specialty areas of optometry at an institutional or hospital-based setting. These programs prepare optometrists for lifelong leadership and scholarship in patient care and education.
Residency Placement Success Rate
| Graduating Class | Total Graduates | Applications | Residency Placements | Success Rate | % In Residencies |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 69 | 35 | 34 | 97% | 49% |
| 2022 | 62 | 39 | 37 | 95% | 60% |
| 2021 | 64 | 32 | 26 | 81% | 41% |
| 2020 | 68 | 32 | 28 | 88% | 41% |
| 2019 | 64 | 37 | 32 | 86% | 50% |
Residency Locations
Our 2023 graduates have been placed in the following residency programs.
Placement Locations
Casey Eye Institute
Duke University
Emory University
Flaum Eye Institute at the U of Rochester Med Ctr
Kaiser Foundation Hospital – Santa Rosa
Kaiser Permanente, Los Angeles
New England College of Optometry
Northern Navajo Medical Center
Omni Eye Services, NY/NJ
Pacific University College of Optometry
San Francisco VA Medical Center
Specialty Dry Eye and Contact Lens Center, Seattle
SUNY, State College of Optometry
Univ of California, San Francisco Medical Center
University Eye Center at Ketchum Health
University of California, Berkeley
University of Houston
University of the Incarnate Word Eye Institute
VA Long Beach Healthcare System
VA Palo Alto Health Care System
VA San Diego Health Care System
Washington University in St. Louis
West Los Angeles VA Health Care