• To provide better clinical ophthalmic assistance to ophthalmologist.
• To train efficient ophthalmic assistants to assist ophthalmologist.
• To enable the students to assess the refractive error of the patient and prescribe spectacles.
• To enable them to perform ophthalmic diagnostic procedures.

• In orienting themselves to comprehensive setup of a refraction unit.
• To learn the scientific and advanced techniques in refraction.
• To enhance their clinical skill in refraction
• To gain knowledge and skill which can be implemented for community eye care services.

• The course will primarily focus on enhancing the skills of Orthoptist
• practitioners and  to upgrade their knowledge and skill, and to provide customized clinical skill development.

• To provide compassionate care and personal attention to all patients, treating them equally, promptly in a friendly and courteous manner.
• To provide accurate, reliable information and guidance to patients as per their needs and requirements.
• To create awareness about hospital services.
• To increase patient satisfaction.
• To assist patients in informed decision making in the areas of admission, surgery, pre-operative care, post-operative care, discharge, follow-up care and special procedures.

• Provision of an ideal environment for conducting surgery:
• Promoting a high standard of asepsis
• Ensuring proper care and comfort of patients
• Providing optimum conditions of work for staff.
• Establishment of rules, procedures, workflow and protocols for the smooth and efficient functioning of the department and performance of operating procedures.
• Defining operative sessions and allocating theater time to various surgical teams based on need, collected for disposal or for cleaning and sterilizations.

• To provide knowledge and develop practical skills in the field of OT
• To enhance clinical skills to support the ophthalmologist
• To upgrade technical skills in handling of and maintenance of instruments and other equipment.

Target group

• The target group is confined to MLOPs of other organizations
• OT assistants interested in ophthalmic surgery
• General Nurses working in an ophthalmology set up

Outcome of the course

• By the end of this course the trainee will be able to:
• Assist in cataract surgeries.
• Manage an ophthalmic theatre in a cost effective manner
• Promote patient centered care with continuous quality improvement

• To Manage  Patient Care
• To Ward Management
• To keep Medical Record:
• To Manage Medical Record Tracking:
• To Patient Flow Management
• To develop Referral Patient Management
• To Manage Community Outreach programmed

• To recognize common Lab. instruments and equipments.
• To understand Lab. safety
• To perform safety maintenance of Lab. instruments and equipments, reagents.
• To understand to handle common lab. reagents and chemicals.
• To understand the principles of measuring and weighing.
• To describe the basis of ocular microbiology
• To perform microscopic identification of common ocular pathogens.
• To know the use of biological microscope
• To practice the right method of collecting specimens and prepare smears.
• To know the staining techniques
• To practice all the basic sterilization techniques
• To describe the purpose of washing hands and practice the correct steps in cleaning glass wares.
• To describe the way of collecting urine and blood samples and its proper storage and transport systems.
• To understand slit lam examination,
• staining, schirmer test
• Conjunctival scrab
• Corneal scraping

PLANNING

• Purpose, value and need for medical records
• Planning for and creating a sustainable Medical Record Department
• Applying information technology (IT) for records management

ADMINISTRATION

• Organising Records by job and by function
• Safety and Security of
• Records
• Legal aspects of Medical Records development
• Records Department
• Administration
• Quality Control  in Medical Records

GLOBAL MRD STANDARDS

• Numbering and filing systems including ICD code
• Data Index Method
• International Disease classification
• Collection and preparation of  reports
• Introduction to Electronic Medical Records

• How to listing and keeping track of all equipment in the hospital.
• How maintaining adequate stock of essential supplies for instruments (bulbs, fuses, paper rolls etc.).
• Developing procedures for keeping track of the entire maintenance process (care maintenance and repair) including warranty and maintenance contracts.
• Maintaining catalogues instruction and service manuals of the instruments. Training the users of instruments on the various Dos and DON’Ts.
• Trouble shooting and diagnosing the problems in instruments reported to be not working.
• Rectifying faults that can be handled locally and properly communicating the problem as precisely as possible to the supplier/outside service agency.
• Planning for maintenance activity in a outreach program site away from the hospital.
• Skills relating to maintenance of electrical and electronic instruments.
• Skills relating to maintenance of optical instruments
• Skills relating to maintenance of mechanical parts of equipment