Short Term Training in Small Incision Cataract surgery
We offer Short Term SICS Training at JPM Hospital, Cuttak to young trainee ophthalmologist. The manual SICS provides the ideal stepping stone to mastering phacoemulsification. The objective of this course is to convert an ECCE surgeon to perform SICS with the help of a well structured training program. Till date JPM had trained more than two hundred ophthalmologist in SICS.
Course overview of Short Term SICS Training
- 1st week: Observing SICS and performing ECCE cases for 2 days.
- 2nd week: SICS step surgery under the supervision.
- 3rd &4th week: Perform surgeries independently.
- In the afternoon session, trainees can get practice in wet lab on human donor/animal eye/simulator.
Facility for training at JPM
JPM hospital was built in collaboration with Sight Savers International (SSI), formerly known as Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind, UK. The institute has performed more than 1,45,000 eye surgeries and more than 14,00,000 people have been provided eye care treatment. It is today one of the leading hospitals in Eastern India providing eye care in super specialties like Retina, Cornea, Low Vision, Glaucoma, Paediatric Eye Care, etc.
Initially set up for undertaking cataract surgeries mainly, the institution has now grown to be a Referral Tertiary Centre of excellence. Equipped with the most modern facilities, skilled eye care professionals and an extremely dedicated staff, JPM Hospital is committed to clinical excellence, personalized patient care and best eye care services 24×7, 365 days a year.
Faculty for Short Term SICS Training at JPM Hospital, Cuttak
program is been coordinated by Dr. Santosh Kumar Mahapatra.