Vitreo-Retinal Surgery Fellowship review @ Little Flower Eye Hospital, Angamaly, Kerala

Duration 2 years

2 fellows taken every 2 yrs

Stipend 50k

Selection by interview

No phaco training.

There are 4 retina consultants but fellow training mainly happens under Dr Divya (paediatric retina surgeon).  

When they start hands-on depends on your surg skill, if your tissue handling is good you can start getting ports and sutures in 1st month itself.

Else your initial 3-4 months will be spent observing and assisting.

Lots of free hands-on for lasers and injections.

You are given mostly steps in retinal surgeries till the end of fellowship. Because all patients are paying pts, the scope to do full cases independently is zero. But depending on how you pick up steps, you will get to do more and more steps in surgeries.. short of doing it entirely yourself.

You get hands-on for everything, VH, mac holes, RD surgeries etc.. TRD cases are routinely not given to fellows.

Clinical op exposure is good, wide variety of cases+ 

Night duties once a week, Sunday duty once a month, camp duties once every 2 months.

Academics- no regular classes, mostly self learning.

ROP exposure is limited to learning ROP screening, since the paediatric hospital is a separate building.. No hands-on given for lasers or injections in ROP babies. 

Note- they take an admission fee before you join fellowship which is not refunded- 1 lac for 2 yr fellowship, there are rumours of it increasing to 2 lacs from 2026 onwards.