this will provide the basic information about the Optometry profession for a beginner. if there is any question please visit mero eye website

1. OPTOMETRY
Institute of Medicine
Maharajgunj Medical Campus
Kapil Gautam
3/ March /2019

2. optometry
 Comes from Greek word
 Opsis + metron
( opsis means view and metron means rule/ measurement)
 The root word opto derived from the
Greek word ophthalmus which means
eye

3. History
 “Those who don't know history will repeat
past mistakes”
 Optometry began about 100 years ago
when the first optometry licensure laws
were passed in US
 Optometry began with the slogan “Let
there be light.”

4. EYE CARE PROFESSION
Optician
Optometrist
Ophthalmic
assistance

5. Who is an optometrist?
 Optometrists are the primary healthcare
practitioners of the eye and visual system
who provide comprehensive eye and
vision care
 Refracting and dispensing
 Detection/diagnosis and management of
disease in the eye
Rehabilitation of conditions of the visual
system
World council of optometry (WCO)

6. Who are optometrist ?
 Graduates - from the proficiency science
or +2 background and has completed the
Bachelor of Optometry or Vision science
degree
Vision specialist

7. Optometry in Nepal
 B. Optometry – started in 1998 in collaboration
with University of Auckland, New Zealand
 Four-year academic course
Optometry graduates of IOM
93 in number (16 batches)

9. WHAT DOES AN OPTOMETRIST DO?
Refraction
Contact lens
Orthoptics
Low vision
Perimetry
Electrophysiological test
Vision therapy
Visual rehabilitation

10. WHAT TYPE OF KNOWLEDGE
DOES AN OPTOMETRIST HAVE?
Basic science
Ocular science and applied optics
Ocular disease , ocular pharmacology
Visual science
Contact lens , low vision , binocular single
vision
Ophthalmic dispensing
Community science and research

11. FURTHER AFTER GRADUATION
OD (Doctor of optometry)
Masters in optometry
PHD
Fellowships
MPH (eye health)

12. OUR PASSOUT SENIORS
 Studying PHD 17-20 in number
+ PHD doctors 7-10 in number
 40% seniors are practicing at Nepal
where as 60% are in foreign country

16. THANK YOU
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