Being a primarily single-site program provides significant benefits for residents: all faculty are on site, and no time is spent getting from one location to the next through the course of the week. The Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center in White River Junction, Vermont, is less than a 15-minute drive from Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, so residents can attend morning conference at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center before starting their clinic day at the VA. Traffic is mild, and parking is free at both locations.
The Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center adult Eye Clinic—together with the pediatric Eye Clinic—occupies 15,000 square feet and features 33 exam lanes, ophthalmic lasers, 6 testing suites, 2 photography suites, 3 minor procedure rooms, and extensive diagnostic testing equipment.
The Eye Clinic is located centrally within the Lebanon complex. Almost all relevant facilities—OR, laboratory, radiology, hospital inpatients, emergency department, research labs, conference rooms, cafeteria and food courts, medical library, bank, pharmacy, and most other clinical departments—are within a 5-minute walk of the clinic. The Outpatient Surgery Center is a 10-minute walk from the clinic.
Surgical procedures at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center are performed in the main hospital operating rooms and (primarily) at the Outpatient Surgery Center. VA procedures are performed in the VA operating rooms. All operating facilities have advanced current model procedural equipment and operating microscopes.
There is a surgical wet lab with microscopes and equipment for animal eye practice. Our EyeSi cataract surgical simulator is located in our 24-hour simulation center.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center is a 396-inpatient bed tertiary care medical center that serves as the teaching hospital for Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center is the only teaching hospital in New Hampshire and serves as a major referral site for northern New England. Inpatient and outpatient visits at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center campus and the VA in White River Junction, Vermont, total over 550,000 annually. The center provides care to a population base of 1.5 million people covering an area that reaches from New Hampshire and Vermont to Maine, Massachusetts, and New York.
The VA in White River Junction, Vermont, is a 60-bed referral, level 1 facility staffed by Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. The VA is located less than 10 miles from Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. It provides a full range of primary, secondary, and specialty care. The VA is a teaching site for several Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center residency and fellowship programs.