Medical Retina Fellowship review @ Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai

(Note- this Medical Retina (MR) program is different from their Medical Retina & Uvea program which is 2 yrs)

1 YEAR duration

Medical Retina (MR) program

• 1st month training

• For 8 months...1 month uvea posting, 1 month emergency posting, 1 month diagnostics posting, rest 5 months MR unit posting with different consultants in which we are in OP with them.

• Last 3 months known as SR-ship in which one gets their mentor under which they will start getting injections in OT.

• MR fellows are mostly in OP with consultants, so we get ample amount of almost all variety of cases.. so clinical OP exposure is really very good.

• Regarding hands on, in 1 month of diagnostic posting we start getting lasers and B-scans.

• In last 3 months when we become SR, we get 2 or 3 days per week of full day postings in lasers and similarly 2 or 3 days per week of full day postings in B-scan room- In 1 day we get 20-25 lasers if posted in lasers and if posted in B-scan room, we get 40-50  B-scans in 1 day.

• Injections we get in last 3 months of SR-ship only.

• It's not hectic.. timings are 8-5pm.

• Every month you have one emergency posting it's 7 pm (one day) to 7 pm (next day).

• It's not toxic at all.

• Cataract surgery is not given in 1 yr MR fellowship, it's given in the MR + Uvea fellowship.

• Once or twice a month we get night emergency duty or ward duty.

• Sundays are usually free. Occasionally we get emergency duties.