Learning cataract surgery during ophthalmology residency is critically important for many reasons.
Cataract surgery is the most widely performed ophthalmic surgery, it teaches intraocular surgical techniques, it helps to develop surgical judgment, and it can restore an amazing level of vision to our patients. Even if you are planning on specializing in vitreoretinal surgery, the skills from cataract surgery will prove useful to you. There are quite a few pitfalls in learning cataract surgery, and I have found that the same types of mistakes tend to be made early in the learning curve.
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