Glimpses 2009-2010.pdf - LV Prasad Eye Institute

The first batch of residents: Rajyalakshmi, Neha Bharti, Ujwala Baheti & Ratnesh Sharma
A learning environment with
lessons for life
Opening our doors to young medical
students just embarking on specialty
training has offered a challenge. This is also a
huge opportunity for us to spread our way of
“doing things” to a new generation of medicos.
Some of the students from the first batch of
residents preparing for the Diplomate of the
National Board (Ophthalmology) talk about
their choice of specialty and centre.
The surgical exposure at LVPEI is really good, which does not happen is smaller institutes. The small incision
“ surgery and phaco training is unique. We have an independent fellow OPD and OR, where we get the
opportunity to examine patients and decide the plan of management on our own. If one needs an expert opinion,
one can approach the faculty. It makes you confident to take decisions on your own. You start thinking of the
different possible situations you have to deal with. It encourages you to think… you don’t really think when the
consultant does the diagnosis.
Ujwala BahetI
When we come here we have to be mentally prepared to do some real hard work. The working hours are
“ quite rigorous. But one has to make sacrifices to gain something in life. The consultants are very encouraging
and have been very patient with us although we do not have the basic knowledge of ophthalmology. The
examination techniques, instruments, slit lamps, lenses and equipment used in the operation theatre are of
the best quality. This program is like a walking atlas.
Neha Bharti
I never imagined that ophthalmology would be such a tough and elaborate course. Now I feel three years
“ is too short a time to understand the subject well. The surgical skills and the training that one gets exposed
to here are just incomparable. The most important thing is that one learns the right attitude towards patients.
We learn to take care of the patients and to respect them. The effort that we take is worth it.
Ratnesh Sharma
Exchange broadens vision
The MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA)
International Science and Technology Initiatives, known as MISTI, connects
MIT students and faculty with research and innovation around the world.
Working closely with a network of premier corporations, universities and
research institutes, MISTI matches over 400 MIT students with internships
and research abroad each year.
Beginning 2009, L V Prasad Eye Institute has hosted students from the
MIT–India Program. The first two interns came here between June 8 and
August 14, 2009. Lauren Shields and Sophia Mian worked on their summer
project “Transportation of Limbal Stem Cells Cultivated on Amniotic
Membrane”; Dr V S Sangwan was the technical in-charge of the program.
Lauren and Sophia at LVPEI
Lauren and Sophia spent time in clinics with various consultants and visited a secondary eye care Service
Centre. They also did a small project to understand the distances from which non-paying patients come to
seek eye care and took Bharatanatyam lessons from the daughter of a faculty member!
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