Resident Education Equipment

- Equipment is for non-clinical, non-human use only in North America

- Requesting organization must be tax exempt or government affiliated

- Organization should be an accredited ophthalmology program (ACGME or CanERA)

- Individual physicians and/or private practice groups are not eligible

-An academic organization should not have received the same type of equipment within the last 24 months.

- Requests are limited to one unit per model

- Approval of equipment placement will be communicated only when an actual piece of equipment is ready for delivery

- Availability of equipment is limited and placement will be priority based on assessment of educational need

- Commercial associates do not make determination of educational need or placement of equipment

- Organization’s name, address, phone number that coordinates with the tax identification number

- Program Director at requesting organization with phone number and email address for follow up

- Request is reviewed by the IME Grant Office

- Notification will be provided within 5 business days determining whether request will be accepted for consideration

- Status of requests will be provided to applicants in January, April, July, and October

- Accepted requests will remain active unless notified otherwise by requesting party

-A request does not guarantee the approval and/or placement of equipment