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Uptake Pattern of Training Programs over Two Decades at an International Ophthalmic Training Institute in India

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Title Uptake Pattern of Training Programs over Two Decades at an International Ophthalmic Training Institute in India
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PTYQOQ
 
Creator Krishnaveni G
Sanil Joseph
Thulasiraj Ravilla
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Recognizing the urgent need to improve eye care services to address the increasing eye care burden globally, the World Health Organization (WHO) and International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) together launched a global initiative “VISION 2020: The Right to Sight” in 1999 with the goal to eliminate avoidable blindness by the year 2020. This initiative identified disease control, human resource development and infrastructure development as the three pillars to achieve the desired outcomes. The global action plan of WHO (2014 – 2019) also has emphasized the need of trained workforce in all the WHO regions for ensuring comprehensive eye care services. The overall shortage of workforce warrants a robust strategy to ensure sustainable training programmes for all cadres of eye care professionals. Recognizing this, Aravind Eye Care System (AECS) in India has developed an extensive set of training programmes over the past 40 years, for supplementary skills development for all members of the eye care team. The aim of this study was to evaluate the uptake pattern of long term and short-term structured certificate training programs offered at AECS during the last two decades (2000 – 2019).
 
Subject Medicine, Health and Life Sciences
 
Contributor Krishnaveni G