The Pacific Eye Institute is the Pacific region's first training facility for eye health professionals.  Postgraduate students are trained specifically to provide eye care in Pacific conditions. They gain a solid academic basis for their practice and considerable supervised practical experience at clinics in Suva, Fiji.

Study is undertaken with the guidance of well-respected eye care professionals from across the region who have helped structure innovative programs founded on current, evidence based, active learning principles.

The Fiji School of Medicine awards the one-year Postgraduate Diploma in Eye Care and the six-month Postgraduate Certificate in Eye Care, which are both available to nurses and health science graduates, and the Postgraduate Diploma in Opthalmology which is available to doctors. The University of Papua New Guinea currently awards the Master of Medicine (Ophthalmology).

Training eye care professionals to work together as teams is vital to achieving successful eye health programs. For this reason, graduates can enroll at the Institute in pairs, and training is structured to teach a doctor and nurse, or a doctor and science/health-science graduate to function as a team. If there is no need or scope for training a doctor, two eye care workers from the same country can study together. These teams support each other through the training, and in their home workplaces upon completion of their studies.

The Pacific Eye Institute is an initiative of, and is funded by, The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ.

Read more about the Pacific Eye Institute Brochure-2007 PDF.
Read more about The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ: Hollows-NZ-Story PDF.

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