Education & Training

Across the globe, a healthcare professional workforce is needed to meet the health needs and challenges of healthcare delivery. There is very high prevalence of needless blindness in North India and need for education cum resource facility in North India cannot be overstated. Education and training have been one of the core focus areas of the organisation since its inception. Though the education programmes for ophthalmologists and optometrists have been in place for the last 20 years, the medical education department was formally incepted in 2010. Over the years, the organisation has expanded the scope of education to train not only various cadres of ophthalmologists and optometrists but also paramedical staff and allied ophthalmic paramedics. Since its inception, the education centre has trained 120 ophthalmologists coming from various parts of the country and abroad via long term programmes and more than 600 ophthalmologists via various short term training programmes.

The education department has recently joined hands with Standard Chartered Bank to boost up the eyecare education initiatives to meet the unmet need of the ophthalmic healthcare force in the country. The Standard Chartered- Shroff Eye Care Education Academy will include strategies and interventions that provide context-relevant health professional education to ophthalmologists, allied ophthalmic paramedics, eyecare managers, as well as another cadre of eyecare delivery manpower.