Cornea Refractive fellowship at Narayana Nethralaya, one of the leading eye institutes and a tertiary care referral centre, is a structured course that allows the fellow to be trained in one of the most dynamic and vibrant departments under highly qualified and dedicated surgeons. The fellowship strives to offer a state-of-the-art training experience in the Cornea and Refractive Departments.
Cornea and External Eye Diseases
OPD: Corneal infections, allergies, chemical/thermal injuries, dystrophies, autoimmune diseases, and procedures like foreign body removal, suture removal, glue BCL under topical anaesthesia, and contact lens clinic.
OT: Training for minor procedures like pterygium excision, deep-seated foreign body removal, corneal tattooing, and EDTA chelation. It also assists in enhanced acquisition of surgical skills for major surgical procedures like amniotic membrane grafting, mucous membrane grafting, keratoplasty, keratoprosthesis, DALK, DSEK, and corneal tear repairs.
Refractive department
Planning of various refractive surgeries, postoperative management, and access to the advanced diagnostic department having all anterior segment imaging modalities like Pentacam, MS-39, Sirius, Galilei, aberrometry, AS-OCT, Orbscan, UBM, in-vivo confocal microscopy, and slit lamp photography.
Apart from clinical and surgical exposure, future surgeons will be exposed to multiple research-related opportunities at our dedicated GROW LAB.
The candidate will undergo wet lab training for motor and surgical skill acquisition and will be constantly engaged in academic activities. Our Eye Banking services’ constant inflow of donor corneas to the needy ensures uninterrupted training opportunities for the candidates.
Fellows also undertake emergency day and night duties, which help them learn management of ophthalmic emergencies.
Diseases affecting the optic nerve like optic neuritis, ischemic optic neuropathy, autoimmune optic neuropathy, compressive optic neuropathy, nutritional optic neuropathy, toxic optic neuropathy.
characterized by partial of complete inability to move either one or both the eyes due to central and peripheral nervous system diseases like myasthenia gravis and ocular motor cranial nerve palsies following trauma (injury), tumours, ischemia due to systemic diseases like hypertension or diabetes mellitus.
affecting the visual pathway formed by the optic nerve, optic chiasma, optic tract and optic radiations.
like pituitary adenoma, craniopharyngioma, meningioma causing compressive optic neuropathy which cause a direct pressure on the optic nerve and other tumours of the brain affecting the visual pathway and cause of raised intracranial pressure.
such as idiopathic intracranial hypertension, and cerebral venous thrombosis, which can result in permanent and profound loss of vision in the long term
with visual loss, transient ischemic attacks with transient visual loss
Eligibility: MS/ DNB (Ophthalmology), meritorious candidates having DOMS with 02 years’ experience may also be considered
Duration of fellowship: 24 months
Stipend: 56,000/- per month
Age: Under 35 Years
Total Number of Seats: One every admission cycle
Course Commencement: Jan, Mar, May, Jul, Sep and Nov every year
Admission Test/ Interviews: Approximately 06 weeks before course commencement
Can opt for short term observational or long term fellowship.
