Short Term SICS and Phaco Training review@ Shri Sankara Deva Nethralaya (SSDN), Guwahati, Assam

1 month course (for SICS and Phaco)

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.