Comprehensive Ophthalmology Fellowship review @ Sankara Netralaya (SN), Chennai

Duration- 18 months 

Selection- by exam followed by interview 

They take 1 fellow per session 

Stipend- 55k

1st month is orientation period where you shadow an assigned fellow (of any specialty) in OP and OT

Thereafter you are posted to different specialty depts for a month x next 17 months.

No cataract surgeries given in main SN hospital.

It's in your posting at JCOC (their camp hospital) that you are given cataracts.

You get 3 rotations of JCOC posting.

SICS given initially- 100 cases promised

Phaco given only in the last month and 3rd JCOC posting- only 30 phacos 

No training in difficult cataracts or managing complications.

You may get pterygiums and Yag caps.. no other procedures/ surgeries given 

Hectic work environment 

The consultant under whom you are posted with teaches you.

Academics- regular classes, fellows attend with PGs, also have to give monthly internal exams.