IPOSC DATABASE OF TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
This database of training opportunities in Strabismus and Pediatric Ophthalmology is offered as a service to ophthalmic trainees and to Institutions that offer ophthalmic training. All entries appear with the consent of the person in charge of the training program, who has either entered the data or has been asked to check that the entry is correct. IPOSC has not inspected these training programs and it is the responsibility of trainees to check that any program is appropriate for them.
The training opportunities have been divided into fellowships and observerships. We have defined a fellowship as a post in which the trainee has direct clinical responsibility for patient care, both as outpatients and for surgery under supervision. This will generally require that the trainee hold appropriate medical registration and indemnity cover in the host country and be fluent enough in the language of the host country to be able to communicate effectively with patients. It may or may not be paid. Fellowships are commonly for 6 months or a year.
An observer has no clinical responsibility for patient care. They can only observe outpatient consultations and cannot be directly involved in surgical care. No registration or indemnity cover is required. Observerships are generally shorter, from a week to 3 months.
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JYOTIRMAY EYE CLINIC
Course Director: Dr Mihir Kothari, Jyotirmay Eye Clinic
Full details on http://www.jyotirmay.com/fellowship-training
COURSE OBJECTIVE:
To train aspirants in the management of common ocular motility disorders, amblyopia and other common Pediatric ophthalmic disorders.
The course would include training in following diagnostic and management skills.
DIAGNOSTIC SKILLS:
Vision assessment and refraction in infants and children.
Vision screening in children.
Diagnostic approach to common Pediatric ophthalmic disorders.
Screening for the retinopathy of prematurity.
Evaluation of patients with diplopia.
Evaluation of binocularity, stereopsis, fusional amplitudes and accommodative amplitudes
Practical approach to the diagnosis of strabismus. Paddle tests (Cover Test, Uncover TEST, simultaneous prism cover test etc). Use of prisms to quantitate the deviation, Hess charting, Forceps tests, Evaluation of versions, vergences duction, saccades and ocular torsion.
Working up the cases of nystagmus and other ocular motility disorder.
Tensilon / Prostigmine test for myaesthenic
Evaluation of congenital epiphora.
Evaluation of congenital ptosis etc
MANAGEMENT SKILLS:
NON-SURGICAL
Therapeutic approach to common Paediatric disorders.
Principles of spectacle correction in strabismic and non-strabismic children.
Ophthalmic prism dispensing.
Botox for strabismic disorders
Examination under sedation
SURGICAL (OBSERVATION ONLY) - SURGERY CAN BE PERFORMED BY OPHTHALMOLOGISTS FROM INDIA
Conventional and fornix incision strabismus surgery.
Adjustable suture technique.
Nystagmus surgeries.
Muscle Transposition Surgeries
Endoscopic probing and lacrimal sac surgery in children.
Paediatric Cataract surgery.
Trabeculotomy/ Trabeculectomy, Ahmed Galucoma Valve implantation, Goniotomy.
Management of Paediatric eye trauma.
Enucleation and orbital implant.
Surgeries for Congenital Ptosis etc.
Hands on skill transfer policy:
Hands on training is done at variable frequency. We conduct camps at Bhiwandi, Girgaon and Thane.
Research by Fellows:
By default, a fellow will be engaged in all / any ongoing research work of the clinic.
The fellows from all over the world are welcome to our state of the art pediatric eye care center in Mumbai. For more details visit the website http://www.jyotirmay.com/