Medical Retina & Uvea Fellowship review @ Sankara Netralaya, Chennai

[This fellowship is different from their exclusive Medical Retina fellowship which is 1 year.]

2 years duration

Medical Retina 1 year

Uvea posting 1 year

Stipend 55k

Uvea posting- very good

Uvea exposure- OPD wise is great

Sx chance you get weekly once in Guindy branch..

One month only cataract posting in Guindy branch when doing 1 yr Uvea posting

They start with ECCE and then do Blumenthal SICS..

Phaco also..

Surgical training.. basics one-to-one training is very good..

SICS.. around 40

Phaco some 10 cases

Case no:s depends on your proficiency and personal progress..

Complicated cases are given to fellows but for SICS..

No vitrectomy exposure

Medical Retina posting

Opd exposure good

Laser chances ok-ok.. usually given in last 2 months.. approx 100 lasers you can expect 

Intravitreal injections not much given, usually 10, max 15-20

For Ozurdex inj, AC tap, PST inj, you have to keep asking for chances.

There is also ROP training.. we get exposure.. not much, only what cases come to OPD.

No hands-on for ROP lasers or injections.

Other than that, you can be independent with retinal lasers and injections by the end..

Dutywise- Ward duty monthly twice..

Sunday duty monthly once

Night duty monthly twice.

Not hectic..

Work is 8-5.. differs on OT days..

You have monthly posting with diff consultant

2 OT days with consultant.. you observe the OT and do case entry work... lots of file entry work.

Good clinical exposure..

Personally feel this fellowship is suitable for candidates not interested in surgery (since cataract numbers are so low).

You have to know Hindi.. I (reviewer) didn't know Hindi so I had it tough.. but I picked up..

In SN, it's mostly Hindi patients or Bengali..