beginning surgeon learns phaco chop for the first time (Cataract Surgery)

You've seen countless videos of phaco chop, but you seem to be stuck in a mode of less efficient techniques of nucleus removal. How do you advance to the next stage of nucleus disassembly during phaco surgery? Over the past 20 years of teaching ophthalmology residents, I have learned that it takes a resident about 100 cataract surgeries to develop sufficient intra-ocular skills to progress to phaco chop. This varies and some residents are able to perform phaco chop earlier in the learning curve while others may defer advancing their skills until years later. But I am convinced that any ophthalmologist in training can learn phaco chop. And this also applies to surgeons already in practice, too. full article on CataractCoach.com -- please go there to read it

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