Vitreo-Retinal Surgery Fellowship review @ Aravind Eye Hospital, Coimbatore

Aug 1, 2025
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Updated: Feb 6

Exposure to all types of retina cases at Aravind is good, we will get lots of lasers and injections including in ROP cases, surgery number is also reasonable.
2 weeks uvea and ROP + ocular oncology training included, thereafter you will be going for ROP screening in the periphery where you will again see good number of ROPs.
At the end of fellowship you will be confident with basic cases but you won't get PDR membrane cases and macular hole (ILM peeling step).
There are lot of fellows at any given time, so surgery numbers may vary between fellows.
Work load is huge, but toxicity in the department is less.
No single mentor, you are trained by consultant posted in OT, fellows are rotated for OT.

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