Coronavirus Updates

The Meredith Morgan Eye Center and the Tang Clinic are currently open for all eye and vision services. Detailed safety protocols for patients, staff, faculty and students have been developed and approved by the City of Berkeley Health Department, University Health Service and Campus Leadership in accordance with CDC guidance.

Students will have onsite clinical and lab training in the spring. Didactic teaching will be on-line but can be viewed in our lecture halls with appropriate social distancing and PPE. If you are traveling, please view our COVID-19 Travel Policy

Students will have onsite clinical and lab training in the spring. Didactic teaching will be on-line but can be viewed in our lecture halls with appropriate social distancing and PPE. If you are traveling, please view our COVID-19 Travel Policy

Third year students will continue to train in the clinic with patients and follow appropriate safety protocols. Didactic teaching will remain remote, synchronous and on-line, but will be viewable in a variety of spaces within the School including our lecture rooms, where possible.

3rd year students returning to an in-house clinical rotations will begin clinic on January 10th, 2021. The first day of instruction is Tuesday, January 19, 2021.

If you are traveling, please view our COVID-19 Travel Policy

The majority of students scheduled for externships will be providing clinical care at their assigned externship sites.

After winter break, 4th year students returning to externships, other than Hayward and Marin clinics, will begin on January 3rd. 4th year students returning to an in-house rotation will begin clinic on January 10th.

If you are traveling, please view our COVID-19 Travel Policy

Residents will continue to provide eye care of all kinds. They initially worked with essential eye care services at the beginning of the shelter-in-place order but have been treating patients across all services.

Vision Science Students are working in research labs. The campus has announced that all previously approved hybrid courses that are not clinically related will start the semester remotely. All courses with GSI’s in the School will start remotely for both lectures and labs.

Clinic staff will continue to support the expanding clinic operations. All staff will to be working on-site. Non-essential staff — as determined by supervisors — will work remotely.

The clinic is now open 6 days a week with an increasing patient base. Faculty will provide most lectures as synchronous and on-line, either on-site in our lecture halls or from a remote location. Clinical laboratories in campus and Berkeley Public Health approved courses will be taught in-person.