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Now in its twelfth year of operation, Asia’s first international training facility for the propagation of sustainable and effective models of eye care continues to reach out to the developing world by sharing its expertise ever more broadly.
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LAICO runs a series of management training and skills development courses to address the need for professionally trained human resource in eye care.
LAICO also co-ordinates several clinical courses that are offered to increase ophthalmic human resources in the country to provide continuing skills development. The training programmes are designed to enable participating hospitals to develop and implement appropriate strategies relevant to their situations.
Need for Training
In the global initiative for prevention of avoidable blindness, “Vision 2020 – The Right to Sight”, the uitilisation of existing infrastructure is estimated as 25% and the target set is 90% level. This requires a complete reengineering and paradigm shift in the way the current facilities work as well as the new projects that will come into existence. It is conservatively estimated that about 1000 institutions are providing eye care in South East Asia. Many of these hospitals have the potential to significantly enhance their service to the community in terms of volume and quality, by adopting new methods and technologies in management and in clinical services, thereby meeting the needs of the community more effectively. This can pave way for financial viability leading to long term sustainability. The following management and skills development courses on eye care services are offered to address this opportunity.
- Postgraduate Diploma in Optometry (two years)
- Postgraduate Diploma in Ophthalmic Assistance (two years)
- Management Training for Eye Care Programme Managers (two weeks)
- Management Training for Ophthalmic Head of Eye Hospitals (one week)
- Management Training and Systems Development for Hospital Administrators / Managers (one month)
- Certificate course for Clinical & Supervisory skills Development in Ophthalmic Paramedical Personnel (three months)
- Project Management Training for Eye Care (one Year)
- Certificate Course on Eye Hospital Operations (six Months)
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Task Oriented Training Courses
A deeper understanding of the various tasks that lead to better eye care services makes evident the need for training in such tasks. As such training needs increase, LAICO moved from training in an ad hoc manner to training through a structured programme. Three such courses that have evolved are :
- Instruments Manintenance Courses
- For Technicians (Six weeks)
- For Trainers (Three months)
- For Ophthalmologists (One week)
- Community Outreach and Social Marketing of Eye Care Services (Four weeks)
- Course in Optical dispensing (three months)
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Custom Designed Courses
In addition to the structured short-term and long-term courses, Aravind and LAICO offer learning opportunities to meet with the needs of individuals and organisations. Such training is offered throughout the year and scheduling is based on individual needs. These requests often take the form of observation, some hands-on training and spending time in specific clinical or administrative areas. The duration of such learning, actual dates and costs (if any) vary from one request to another. The broad areas where such learning opportunities are often requested and provided are :
- Operation theatre management
- Ward and outpatient management
- Medical records
- Purchase and Inventory management
- Housekeeping & Maintenance management
- Use of computers in hospitals
- Advice or specific capital and equipment purchases
- Advice on architectural design for expansion
- Inputs on planning a new hospital project
- Developing training activities
- Assistance in carrying out surveys
- Dispensing of spectacles (surfacing, edging, fitting and counter sales)
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Future Plans
LAICO is constantly looking for new and better ways to expand its services. Currently there are number of future projects in the planning stage. Some of these include plans to :
- Offer management courses through distant learning using internet infrastructure, web based learning.
- Enhance the use of computers in all the hospitals
- Develop resource centre to avail statistic, reference materials and other tools relevant to different aspects of eye care.
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