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Residency evaluation and adherence design study: Young ophthalmologists' perception of their residency programs - Clinical and surgical skills.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Residency training is the basis of good clinical and surgical practice.

Purpose

The aim is to know the demographics, training experience, and perception of young ophthalmologists to improve the present residency programs in India.

Setting

Young ophthalmologists trained in India.

Methods

A survey was conducted by the Academic and Research Committee of the All India Ophthalmology Society, in 2014-2016 of young ophthalmologists (those trained between 2002 and 2012, with 2-10 years' postresidency experience) to gauge teaching of clinical and surgical skills during the postgraduate residency program.

Statistical analysis

Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 16.

Results

Of the 1005 respondents, 531 fulfilled inclusion criteria. Average age was 32.6 years (standard deviation [SD] 4). On a scale of 0-10, clinical skills teaching was graded as (mean, SD): Slit lamp examination (7.2, SD 2.8), indirect ophthalmoscopy (6.2, SD 3.3), gonioscopy (5.7, SD 3.4), perimetry (6.2, SD 3.2), optical coherence tomography (4.6, SD 4), and orthoptic evaluation (4.3, SD 3.1). The mean (SD) and median of surgeries performed independently was intracapsular cataract extraction 3.0 (14.9), 0; extracapsular cataract extraction 39.9 (53.2), 18; small incision cataract surgery 75.3 (64.4), 55; phacoemulsification 30 (52.6), 1; pterygium excision 31.5 (43.5), 15; dacryocystectomy 20.3 (38.1), 4; dacryocystorhinostomy 11.7 (26.2), 2; chalazion 46.4 (48.3), 30; trabeculectomies 4 (14.9), 0; strabismus correction 1.4 (4.9), 0; laser-assisted in situ Keratomileusis 1.5 (12.2), 0; retinal detachment 1.5 (12.5), 0; vitrectomy 3.0 (17.0), 0; keratoplasty 5.2 (17.8), 0; eyelid surgery 8.6 (18.9), 2 and ocular emergencies 41.7 (52.4), 20. Observed and assisted surgeries were more common. However, the range of grading was 0-10 in all categories.

Conclusion

Residency training in India varies considerably from program to program. Standardization is needed to assure all graduates are competent and render consistent quality of service.

SUBMITTER: Gogate P

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5508454 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Residency evaluation and adherence design study: Young ophthalmologists' perception of their residency programs - Clinical and surgical skills.

Gogate Parikshit P Biswas Partha P Natarajan Sundaram S Ramamurthy Dandapani D Bhattacharya Debashish D Golnik Karl K Nayak Barun Kumar BK

Indian journal of ophthalmology 20170601 6

<h4>Background</h4>Residency training is the basis of good clinical and surgical practice.<h4>Purpose</h4>The aim is to know the demographics, training experience, and perception of young ophthalmologists to improve the present residency programs in India.<h4>Setting</h4>Young ophthalmologists trained in India.<h4>Methods</h4>A survey was conducted by the Academic and Research Committee of the All India Ophthalmology Society, in 2014-2016 of young ophthalmologists (those trained between 2002 and ...[more]

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