Summer Internship Program Launched at LVPEI

What can a child or teenager do with their summer holiday at an eye hospital? 16 students from grades 6 to 12 discovered this May.

Our Summer Internship Program, held at the Kallam Anji Reddy (KAR) Campus in Banjara Hills, gave students a front-row seat to the science, care and innovation behind the L V Prasad Eye Institute.

Each morning session paired a talk with direct exposure (wet labs, eye banking, rehabilitation clinics, biomedical engineering) covering the ten functional arms of LVPEI over the course of the program. The expert-led sessions were paired with direct exposure — a format that kept things from staying theoretical for too long. Sessions covered everything from ophthalmic drug development and anti-microbial resistance to biomedical engineering, tele-eye health, and green initiatives at the institute.

One full day took students beyond the Hyderabad campus entirely, visiting primary and secondary centres, such as the the Shirin, Etian, & Tara Brown Eye Centre, a city centre in Kismatpur and Natco Eye Centre, a secondary centre in Shadnagar to understand how eye care concerns are addressed across LVPEI’s rural and urban facilities.

The final days were reserved for focus group work. Students spent time in vision rehabilitation, eye banking and vision science research, and presented their findings and learnings on the last day.

Students developed a broader understanding of the many career pathways within eye care and healthcare.

For LVPEI, the program offered a chance engage young minds, understand how they see healthcare, and consider where that perspective can inform what comes next.

Learn more about the Functional Arms of LVPEI: Clinical Services, Education, Research, Vision Rehabilitation, Rural and Community Eye Health, Eye Banking, Advocacy and Policy Planning, Capacity Building, Product Development, and Technology.