Settings and Design:This study documents a survey of final-year ophthalmology postgraduates on the subject of their surgical training and their future plans after residency.Purpose:This survey aimed to answer the question, What is the present status of surgical training in ophthalmic training centers? by obtaining information from students about (1) various methods used in surgical training (2) numbers and types of surgeries performed by them in the training centers (3) their plans after residency.Materials and Methods:A questionnaire containing 21 questions was distributed to 155 students attending an intensive 4-day teaching program. The questions related to orientation training, wet lab training, facilities for training, free surgical camps and detailed information about numbers and types of surgeries observed and performed. Completed questionnaires were collected, and responses analyzed.Results:One hundred and seven completed responses were analyzed. The majority had not received formal orientation training. More than half had undergone wet lab training. Most residents performed their first ophthalmic surgery during the 1st year of residency and went to the operation theatre multiple times a week. Most of the students planned to undergo further training after residency. More than half of the students found their surgical training to be fair or satisfactory.Conclusions:The number and frequency of ophthalmic surgeries done by residents appear satisfactory, but further efforts from trainers on enhancing the quality and range of surgical training would benefit students and improve their satisfaction.

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Operation theatre lighting system is a critical component in the operation theatre. Focusing the light to the area of surgery and varying the light intensity is manually done in currently available systems. Disruption of surgeon’s attention and possibility of infection due to non sterilized hands is a major setback of the manual controlling method. This usually requires assistants to adjust the position and intensity of the light system by commands from the surgeon. So, designing an intelligent lighting system for operating theatre which can maintain the intensity values to the required level without shadow effect to the operation area is an important requirement. Proposed system makes use of accelerators in the gloves worn by surgeon so as to track hand movements. Pre defined hand movements can be configured to move the lighting system up, down, left or right. Accelerator input is interpreted for its corresponding movement by controller at transmitter side and it is wirelessly given to the receiver side using an nRF module. At the receiver side the incoming command from the nRF is taken and suitable response generated at the motor driver by the controller to move the lighting device. In the same way predefined hand signal can be used to vary the intensity of the light by using microcontroller to drive an LED driver.