Short Term ROP Diagnosis & Management review @ Narayana Nethralaya, Bengaluru

It is a paid fellowship. 

I had selected "screening and management" category in their main campus under Dr. Anand Vinekar. 

There are other categories like screening alone, machine diagnostics alone.(mainly for health workers), screening+ machine diagnostics+ treatment. 

The ROP fellow will travel with the KIDROP team to different districts in Karnataka for four days a week. 

The remaining two days, the fellow will stay back in the department for lasers. 

Sundays are holidays.

The KIDROP team technicians are very knowledgeable.

They will teach you the screening part. 

There would be one retina fellow who would be doing their ROP posting along with you. 

The screening cases will be divided between them and you.

Indirect ophthalmoscope is provided to you. But you should carry your own 20D lens.

There would be around atleast 5 to 10 babies for screening daily. You will get atleast 2 lasers per laser day. 

The fee is 15,000 per week. You may mention how many weeks you might need in your mail. Most of the candidates opt for 2 weeks.

Selection process is by mailing them with your CV.

The contact details are provided in their website.

Stay is not provided by the hospital. However the contacts for the accommodation places are given.

It is important that you do the screening and management in your practice regularly, starting soon after your short term fellowship.