The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. With this accreditation, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine designates every activity utilizing the Johns Hopkins Advanced Studies in Ophthalmology forum as a continuing medical education activity offering a specific number of credit hours in Category 1 of the American Medical Association Physician's Recognition Award. In addition, all activities utilizing the Johns Hopkins Advanced Studies in Ophthalmology forum are planned and produced in accordance with the ACCME Essentials and Standards for Commercial Support.

The Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins
The Wilmer Institute is known throughout the world, not only for research, but for management of exceptionally complex and serious eye cases. The Institute provides compassionate and technically excellent care for patients with eye care needs at all levels. Fellow physicians in the United States have ranked Wilmer the country’s #1 eye department in the U.S. News & World Report physician survey for 12 of the past 15 years in which the survey has been conducted (and #2 in the other three years). Wilmer has also been ranked #1 for four years in a row in a similar survey of ophthalmology program directors in the physician publication Ophthalmology Times. The Institute also receives the highest level of funding by the National Eye Institute of any ophthalmology department in the United States.