We are a teaching hospital for students from RCSI.  We provide clinical and didactic (lectures) teaching for students from the medical school and they take part in our busy postgraduate teaching programme. 
University Hospital Waterford is a designated teaching hospital of University College Cork.
The Department of Ophthalmology at University Hospital Waterford is a designated training centre for Ophthalmic Surgery and more recently for the new training scheme for Medical Ophthalmology..
The GP Registrar position at the Department of Ophthalmology is a module in the GP training scheme in the South East, providing training and expertise to GPs in training.