Long Term Iol And Anterior Segment Fellowship
The course is offered at Aravind- Madurai, Aravind-Tirunelveli and Aravind-Coimbatore. This course began in 1989. The duration of the course is twenty-four months. This fellowship offers training in cataract and other anterior segment surgery. Totally eighteen (Thirteen from Madurai and five from Coimbatore) ophthalmologists were trained in 2005.

Short Term Cataract Surgical Training Programmes
IOL Microsurgery
Aravind established a short term microsurgery training program in June 1993 in order to provide structured and high quality training course for ECCE/IOL surgery. Till date 983 candidates have been trained at Aravind Eye Hospitals - Madurai, Tirunelveli and Coimbatore.

Manual Small Incision Cataract Surgery
Started in March 2003 manual SICS provides the ideal stepping stone to mastering phacoemulsification. So far Aravind has trained around 140 candidates in SICS at Aravind Eye Hospitals - Madurai, Tirunelveli and Coimbatore.

Phacoemulsification
The aim is to train candidates in phacoemulsification surgery as well as in the maintenance of the phaco machine. The candidate initially practices phacoemulsification on a goat eye, lens implanted with a human crystalline nucleus in a well equipped wet lab. Each candidate does around 3 temporal SICS and 20 Phaco surgeries during this course. Phaco training programme was started in March 2005 at Aravind-Madurai. Now the course is offered at Aravind Coimbatore, Tirunelveli, and Pondicherry. Each centre trains around 2 candidates per month. Till date Aravind has trained around 43 candidates in Phaco training. In the year 2005, 150 ophthalmolgoists have undergone one of the above trainings across all four Aravind Eye Hospitals.