Cataract & Refractive Surgery Fellowship review @ Nethradhama Super Speciality Eye Hospital, Bengaluru

• 2 years duration.

• Most of the surgical training happens in their trust hospital.

• First 3 to 5 months you get SICS, then they start Phaco training.

• You start Phaco first with learning bimanual I&A, then you progress to phaco tunnel construction and then topical phaco in the last 4 to 6 months.

• You get around 150 - 250 cases in two years.

• You get exposure to all premium and latest IOLs in the market.

• Refractive department exposure is good and you will be doing few PRK, LASIK, SMILE, C3Rs as well.

• Expect to be busy with regards to research work.

• Good opportunities to present papers in all major national and international conferences.

  
  

• One minus for some fellows is that you won't be trained to handle special cases like RFIOL, anterior vitrectomy etc

• If you quit fellowship mid-way you will have to pay 5 lakhs and also return all the stipend earned.

• Some penalties- you are fined 10,000 for every nucleus drop.

• But otherwise it's a good program to build Phaco skills.