Medical Retina Fellowship review@ Shroff Eye Centre, Delhi

(Please note- Shroff Eye Centre is NOT the same as Shroff's Charity Eye Hospital)

Duration 6 months

1 fellow taken every 3 months 

Selection- interview 

Stipend 20k 

You start your day at 7.30/8 am and are posted with 2 retina consultants per day, 1 consultant in morning half and another in the afternoon 

You see retina OP and manage cases. No OT exposure per se but if you're interested, they will let you go to OT for observation 

You learn primarily retinal lasers and intravit injections- only in charity cases

For this you are posted every Wed and Fri to 2 different charity clinics where you manage OP and bring pts in whom to do lasers & injections.

You start giving intravitreal injections from 2nd month.

You get to give around 20-25 injections over 4 months.

Retinal lasers are given only in last 2 months (once a week).. so you get 8 laser postings where you do lasers all day (around 5 cases per day).. you get PRP, barrage, sectoral etc 

LIO is not given but you can request the consultant to teach you when a case comes.

ROP exposure is minimal, very less cases come here.

Uvea exposure is nil since that's handled by a separate Uvea dept

Classes are there every week, you have to present by turn, usually 1-2 times in 6 months 

Dept is chill, consultants are friendly.

Good program, esp for those who did not have much retina exposure in PG

If you already know to do lasers/injections and only want numbers, this program may not be worthwhile.