Abstract

Surgical training and transfer of surgical skills of new techniques to ophthalmology residents and newer generations of ophthalmologists is the need of the hour. Unfortunately, surgical training of ophthalmology residents in India and several developing countries in most of the residency programs has not kept pace with these advances. A transformation of the mindset, focus and curriculum of ophthalmic surgery alone can prepare the new generation of ophthalmology residents to be competent world leaders in this field. In recent years most of the ophthalmic residents are not getting sufficient surgical cases for learning/mastering cataract and other surgeries in most of the training institutes in India. In this talk, the authors share some pearls for learning and mastering eye surgery to become a perfect ophthalmic surgeon.