TIO’s education and training programmes have been instrumental in human resources development in the field of eye health.It runs various academic courses, fellowships in sub-specialty areas and conducts short training courses for ophthalmologists, medical students, different allied health personnel for Nepali and foreign personnel. To date, TIO has trained 611 ophthalmologists, 732 ophthalmic paramedics, 6,916 medical students, and 10,305 community-based volunteers; while training about 8,000 Nepali and foreign ophthalmologists and ophthalmic personnel on the cataract surgical procedure developed by TIO.
Ophthalmologists from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Bhutan, China, Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, Thailand, Argentina, Ethiopia and Ghana have been trained on cataract ophthalmology techniques