Ophthalmology offers the adrenaline rush associated with performing delicate sight-restoring surgeries, yet the eye specialists do not deal with stressful life and death situations. Residency training is one of the crucial phases in a doctors’ life which transforms a theoretical generalist into a practical specialist geared up to take on the responsibility of caring for the patients.
Throughout the years, the surgical training process in ophthalmology has progressed from unstructured apprenticeship to limitless period in the past, and then in the 20th century, shifted to a Halstedian pyramidal structure and currently on a consistent rectangular model with the specified timeline.[1] However, the “See one, do one, teach one” concept of the Halstedian model is still ingrained in the residency. Challenges of Residency Training: I t is without a doubt that the residency training process in…
