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Short Term SICS and Phaco Training review

Shri Sankara Deva Nethralaya

Guwahati, Assam

  • 1 month course (for SICS and Phaco each)


  • You get 20 cases for SICS

  • 20 cases for phaco


  • You start with dry lab and wet lab in first week

  • Once the trainer there okays you, then you get posted in OT

  • You attend daily classes at 7.30 or 8 am

  • Then proceed to OT and observe

  • Your turn to operate comes in the afternoon session

  • You get 1 case per OT

  • (If you're good, they might give you few more at the end)

  • After your case, you have to head to OP and select your case for next day and do pre-op workup for that pt, and then you can leave


  • You get cases Mon- Sat

  • Sundays off


  • Short term SICS charges 25k

  • Short term phaco charges 40k

  • (Rates might have changed now, please confirm with hospital)

  • If you're able to apply thru ORBIS program, then short term training is free.


  • No criteria of minimum SICS numbers required to do their short phaco training.. so you can do the short term phaco training after your short SICS training.

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