Cornea Fellowship review @ Little Flower Hospital & Research Centre, Angamaly, Kerala

2 yrs long.

Usually 1 fellow taken per session.

57k stipend.

Anita maam is unit chief and the one who heads Cornea training.

You get to operate SICS also.. so if you are not fluent in SICS, you can perfect your skill here.

Phaco cases are not guaranteed, you may or may not get.

If at all they decide to give phaco, it will be in the last 6 months and only after you have mastered SICS.. will be around 20-25 phacos max (because they give phacos to their PGs also, so not enough camp cases to go around for both fellows and PGs to get a high number).

You start corneal surgeries after first 3-4 months, all penetrating keratoplasties- you get steps like graft trephination, first put 4 sutures then 8 sutures etc

Full cases not given unless you show good skill.

You get free hands-on for other procedures like C3R, AMG, pterygiums.

Anita ma'am does ocular surface procedures also (SLET, MMG, lamellar keratoplasties etc) so she can give you steps like putting sutures or air bubble insertion, graft insertion for DSEK etc

Eyebank posting- you'll be trained in tissue evaluation since you have to do it daily.

Enucleation calls are done by eye bank technicians, fellows usually not posted, can accompany the technician on the call if interested.

Clinical exposure is good, wide variety of cases seen in op.

Ulcer ward- Cornea fellow is the one mainly posted there (PGs posted only if fellow not available)- fellows have to scrape all ulcers and manage patients.

No refractive procedure hands-on given but the dept does do refractive procedures so you can get to observe those.