Objective　To investigate the ophthalmological consultation diseases in the duration of 1 year ophthalmic chief resident training

to identify the breadth and depth of knowledge an oph-thalmic chief resident should have. Methods　A retrospective analysis of ophthalmological consultation patients in the past 1 year

to identify proportion of the source department and constituent ratio of ophthalmologic consultation disease in top five sections

top five eye diseases and to understand five special consultation need routine ophthalmology examination which an ophthalmic chief resident should be confronted with. Results　Among 25 departments which request ophthalmic consultation

the top five closely related sections were the Department of Endocrinology (452 cases

20.9%)

Depart-ment of ENT (296 cases

14.5%)

Department of Cardiology (194 cases

9.5%)

Neurological depart-ment of internal medicine (154 cases

7.6%) and Department of gerontology (144 cases

7.1%). Among 32 ophthalmologic consultation diseases

clearly the top five diseases were cataract (630 cases

30.9%)

refractive error (368 cases

18.1%)

diabetic retinopathy (222 cases

10.9%)

conjunctivitis (154 cases

7.6%)

glaucoma (66 cases

3.2%) and pregnancy induced hypertension retinopathy (66 cases

3.2%). With the development of new technology and the new situation and the doctor's self-protection aware-ness

five special consultation circumstances were Department of ENT preoperative routine ophthal-mology examination (196 cases

9.6%)

further clarify the diagnosis of traumatic optic neuropathy (26 cases

1.28%)

Department of Hematology pre-transplantation of stem cell ophthalmologic routine ex-amination (22 cases

1.08%)

glaucoma excluded before the atropine experiment checking (20 cases

0.98%) and cornea K-F ring further examination (16 cases

0.79%). Conclusion　Ophthalmology-related consultation departments are widely distributed

involving more sorts of eye disease

and part of the consultation needs an eye check-up

which requires that ophthalmic chief resident should be a calm demeanor

who has ability on quick judgment of emergency and takes corresponding measures

and meanwhile

he should be a good communicator with other section practitioners and have quality of comprehensive

independent thinking and innovative consciousness of be a scholar ophthalmologist.