Short Phaco Training (Basic Course) review @ MM Joshi Eye Institute, Hubli, Karnataka

Can be customised 15 days/ 1 month.

Fees- as listed on their website.

Accommodation provided within campus (at extra charge).

You get 1 case per OT but if your trainer feels you are doing well or if you have some phaco fluency, they might give you more cases (numbers are variable).

First 2-3 days you will have to do SICS so they can judge your technique.

After that, you are started on phaco.

 Daily routine-

• You are assigned a resident who informs trainees of their daily schedule and centre posting 

• In the morning you have to go with other trainees to one of their centres for observation OT from 10 am.. you are there till 12 pm

• Then from 1-5 pm you have to go to their community centre (this is different from the first centre) where you have to select your case, do pre-op assessment and then you are assigned a table to operate your patient 

• Once you finish your case, you can go back to hostel

• Next day you have to do post-op rounds for ur patient at the main hospital at 7 am

• And then you can head for breakfast and report to the observation centre at 10 am like before

Surgical technique in phaco training-

• You make 2 incisions- 

- Temporal clear corneal incision thru which you do phaco

- And a superior corneo-scleral tunnel thru which you implant rigid IOL

(No training in foldable IOL provided)

• After 5 pm everyday, you can also go to the main hospital and use their wet lab to practice your technique.

• MM Joshi also has shuttle services which you can use to travel to their centres every day.. or else, you take auto.

Overall, a good training program, highly recommended by reviewer since this is one of the few places where you are trained in phaco using clear corneal incision method.