Last Updated - Nov 2024
Smt. Jadhavbai Nathmal Singhvee Glaucoma Services, Sankara Nethralaya
Smt. Jadhavbai Nathmal Singhvee Glaucoma Services, is a specialty department of Sankara Nethralaya and is equipped with all necessary instrumentation for diagnosis and management of glaucoma.
Clinical Glaucoma Fellowship program: 12 months
Course Content:
The glaucoma fellowship program is meant to train the ophthalmologist in the subspecialty of glaucoma including both medical and surgical management of common and complicated glaucomas
The fellow is oriented to the routine practices of the institute in the first month. Subsequently he/she is posted in the Neuro-Ophthalmology department and Glaucoma Diagnostics for 15 days each.
During this tenure, the fellow, after consultation with the director of the department has to formulate a prospective research proposal for his/her period of stay (minimum of one year) which needs to be approved by the research / ethics committees of the hospital.
The fellow will have rotation postings with glaucoma consultants. The fellow will be trained in basic OPD evaluation, visual field evaluation, postoperative care and follow up of patients along with observation of minor OPD and OT procedures and major OT procedures. The fellow will actively assist in OT procedures. The fellow will also be responsible for inpatients of the consultant under whom he/she is posted. The fellow will be allowed to perform OPD and OT procedures as mentioned above under the consultants' supervision.
Besides a once weekly posting throughout the fellowship, an exclusive one month period in the community ophthalmology department to further train for cataract and glaucoma surgeries.
Eventually, the fellow will see day to day glaucoma cross consultations under the supervision of glaucoma consultant to prepare for an independent role.
The fellows are encouraged to present their research work in a scientific meetings, [National, State and City meetings] and publish it in peer reviewed journals during this period.
Throughout the fellowship period, fellows will be on call on designated dates for emergency night on-call where he/she will be seeing emergency glaucoma/non-glaucoma/trauma patients and manage them in OPD as well as OT under the supervision of the consultant on-call.
Evaluation of performance of fellows will be done by regular internal assessment tests. Fellows have to maintain a log-book for the period of their fellowship duration which is assessed every month end by their mentors.
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