Post graduate training program in ophthalmology in India: Idealistic vs realistic

Ophthalmology residency training in India: Quo vadis?

Residency training is an essential phase of metamorphosis in the life cycle of a medical student that marks the transformation of a theoretical generalist into a practically oriented specialist gearing up to assume personal responsibility for patient care. Over the years, the process of surgical training has evolved from an unstructured apprenticeship of unlimited duration in the distant past, ...

Post-graduate medical training in Singapore.

Ophthalmology postgraduate training in India: Stirring up a hornet's nest

Medical Council of India (MCI) is an autonomous regulatory authority responsible for setting the standards of undergraduate as well as Postgraduate Medical Education besides certifying the availability of adequate infrastructure, clinical teaching material, and the trained workforce in the training institutes. Specifically, the Postgraduate Medical Education is governed by the MCI Postgraduate ...

The implementation of unique, active learning tools in post-graduate training

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[Simulation training in ophthalmology].

BACKGROUND Simulation in medicine is an indispensable tool to improve doctors' responses to different situations, enhancing their performance. However, simulation in ophthalmology is a very recent trend, mainly because of the high complexity of developing newer teaching tools, with the need for highly realistic models, mostly in surgical ophthalmic simulation. DISCUSSION The whole development...