Comprehensive Ophthalmology Fellowship review @ Sankara Netralaya (SN), Chennai

Duration- 18 months 

Selection- by exam followed by interview 

They take 1 fellow per session 

Stipend- 55k

1st month is orientation period where you shadow an assigned fellow (of any specialty) in OP and OT

Thereafter you are posted to different specialty depts for a month x next 17 months.

No cataract surgeries given in main SN hospital.

It's in your posting at JCOC (their camp hospital) that you are given cataracts.

You get 3 rotations of JCOC posting.

SICS given initially- 100 cases promised

Phaco given only in the last month and 3rd JCOC posting- only 30 phacos 

No training in difficult cataracts or managing complications.

You may get pterygiums and Yag caps.. no other procedures/ surgeries given 

Hectic work environment 

The consultant under whom you are posted with teaches you.

Academics- regular classes, fellows attend with PGs, also have to give monthly internal exams.

You are familiar with SICS and phaco by the end of fellowship but you cannot operate as an independent surgeon, will need more surgical experience post fellowship.