The vitreoretinal group at the Cincinnati Eye Institute and University of Cincinnati wanted to make you aware of a 2 year vitreoretinal surgical fellowship slot which will be available outside the match for an applicant wishing to start fellowship training in July 2009.  We are a 7 (soon to be 8) surgeon group with a heavy clinical caseload spread across private practice, University, and VA clinics.  We routinely present original research @ national meetings and publish peer reviewed papers regularly.  Several fellows have graduated from our fellowship in the past few years.  All have been promoted internally from our residency program.  We are in the process of joining the match for the spring 2010 match but are too late for the spring 2009 match.  Our currentfirst year fellow will be the second year fellow for the incoming July, 2009 1^st year fellow.