Optometry

1. About Career

Are you always concerned about another person's health, especially the eyes? Do you want to help people by diagnosing their visual impairments using instruments? If yes, you should consider pursuing a career as an optometrist.

Optometrists are the technicians who examine eye issues. Optometrists are professionals with technical knowledge about visual disorder. The main point to be noted here is that an optometrist is not a doctor. Their primary responsibility is to diagnose eye-related defects like near-sightedness, farsightedness, or other visual impairments. An optometrist should always work in a structured manner with precision and accuracy, and they should be comfortable in handling advance instruments used to detect visual defects.

Example: When a person is facing an issue such as blur sight, he visits an optometrist who would examine his vision capabilities using various advanced tools and thus provide an appropriate report which can be further referred to a doctor for treatment.

2. Roles and Responsibilities of a Optometry

• • Examine eyes, using observation, instruments and pharmaceutical agents, to determine visual acuity and perception, focus and coordination and to diagnose diseases and other abnormalities such as glaucoma or color blindness.

  • Prescribe, supply, fit and adjust eyeglasses, contact lenses and other vision aids.

  • Analyze test results and develop a treatment plan.

  • Prescribe medications to treat eye diseases if state laws permit.

  • Remove foreign bodies from the eye.

  • Prescribe therapeutic procedures to correct or conserve vision.

  • Educate and counsel patients on contact lens care, visual hygiene, lighting arrangements and safety factors.

  • Consult with and refer patients to ophthalmologist or other health care practitioner if additional medical treatment is determined necessary.

  • Provide patients undergoing eye surgeries, such as cataract and laser vision correction, with pre- and post-operative care.

  • Provide vision therapy and low vision rehabilitation.

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3. Key Skills Required for Optometry

• • Optometry

  • Refraction

  • Diagnosis

  • Treatment planning

  • Critical thinking

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4. Salary and Demand for Optometry

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  Demand is Medium for Optometry.

  
  


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  Salary levels are Medium for Optometry. For fresher average salary is 3 to 4 Lacs.

  
  


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  Fees levels of the course is Low. To pursue this course student need to spend lesser than 2 Lakhs.

  
  


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  Level of preparation for Optometry is Medium. Students spend 1 Year. to prepare for entrance test of Optometry.

  
  
  
   

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