Beginners Guide to Setting Up :A Medical Retina Unit
Dr. Mahesh G
Medical retina specialists are the need of the hour in India due to the large number of patients with diabeticretinopathy and age related macular degeneration. Trained medical retina specialists are less in number andmany states have very few centres offering medical retina services. This course will help to clarify the doubtsin setting up a medical retina unit. It covers the basic necessary instruments for a medical retina unit, patientcounselling, safe intravitreal injection practice, and training in medical retina. It will be useful for any compre-hensive ophthalmologists in solo or group practice who is planning to set up medical retina unit.
| 1 | Introduction. Medical Retina Specialists. The need of the hour | Dr. Mahesh G |
| 2 | OCT Machines – The Options before us | Dr. Ajay Aurora |
| 3 | A to Z of Setting up an angiography unit | Dr. Kumar K S |
| 4 | Lasers in the market – Which One to buy and why? | Dr. Jyoti Prakash Vyas |
| 5 | Safe practice of intravitreal injections | Dr. Anubhav Goyal |
| 6 | Patient counselling and Scheduling re visits. The back bone ofmedical retina practice | Dr. Gopal S Pillai |
| 7 | Advances in medical Retina . Am I becoming outdated | Dr. Mahesh G |
| 8 | Do you need fellowship to practice medical retina | Dr. Giridhar Anantharaman |
| Total duration (including panel discussion of 6 mins) |


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