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Optometry is the healthcare profession that specializes in comprehensive eye and vision care. Optometrists are the primary healthcare providers who evaluate the visual system for defects, abnormalities, and refractive errors. They correct refractive errors using lenses and treat various eye diseases through medical management or with the help of medications and surgery. Optometrists also help identify eye manifestations of systemic diseases like diabetes and hypertension.
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5. Treat glaucoma with topicals and orals
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7. Perform dilation and irrigation
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- Providing screening and vision care services at secondary and tertiary levels.
- Detection and management of potentially blinding diseases such as cataract, diabetes and glaucoma.
- Preventing conditions like trachoma, red eye, diabetic retinopathy, and myopia progression.
- Protecting the eye from injuries, UV radiation, and smoke exposure.
- Promoting eye health literacy, community screening, school vision screening, and eye health promotion.
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An optometrist examines patients' eyes, diagnoses eye diseases and conditions, and helps manage eye health issues. They check vision, eye alignment and coordination, eye health, and may provide treatments like eyeglasses, contact lenses, or referrals to specialists. Regular eye exams are important throughout life to detect issues early and maintain healthy vision and eye health.
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Ophthalmologists are physicians who specialize in treating diseases and defects of the eyes. They perform surgeries like cataract removal and treat conditions such as glaucoma and retinal problems. To become an ophthalmologist requires a bachelor's degree, 4 years of medical school, a one-year internship, and 3-4 years of residency training in eye care. Ophthalmologists are licensed by their state and often board certified. They have moderate workloads, flexible schedules, and a median salary of $248,500. Demand for ophthalmologists is expected to increase with the aging population and preference for corrective eye surgeries.
Optometry as a Career Choice
Traditionally, the field of optometry began with the primary focus of correcting refractive error through the use of spectacles. Modern day optometry, however, has evolved through time so that the educational curriculum additionally includes significant training in the diagnosis and management of ocular disease, in most of the countries of the world, where the profession is established and regulated.
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Optometry & optometrists
- 1. OPTOMETRY & OPTOMETRISTS A SHORT PRESENTATION BY NIKITA THAPA B.OPTOM
- 2. Eye, an organ that helps for the sight(to see). But when we think deeply about this one organ, it helps to see the world and that too in different colors making the world more beautiful. So, lets know about the profession OPTOMETRY that aids in the colorful vision for life.
- 3. INTRODUCTION: OPTOMETRY, the term coming from a Greek word "opsis- view" and "metron- something used to measure or rule". The word 'OPTO' is shortened form derived from a Greek word ophthalmos meaning 'EYE'. OPTOMETRISTS are the health care professionals who provide the primary healthcare through the comprehensive eye examinations. They evaluate the visual system, its defects and abnormalities as well as correction of refractive errors by the means of glasses, contact lenses etc. and helps in the treatment of different eye disease.
- 4. ROLES OF OPTOMETRISTS: As mentioned above, optometry is a healthcare profession and optometrists are the health care practitioner (registered/licensed) who provide comprehensive eye and vision care by correcting the refractive errors through the help of lenses, detection and diagnosis of the eye disease and its management. They also help in identifying if any systemic disease has harmed eye like in case of long term diabetes or hypertension.
- 5. ROLES: 1. Healthy eyes cases : aid in case of myopia, hyperopia, presbyopia and binocular vision. 2. Eye diseases: with the help of topical agents. 3. Systemic diseases with ocular manifestations: DM, HTN, Thyroid etc. 4. Providing pre and post operative care: cataract, retinal surgery, laser, refractive surgery etc.
- 6. OPTOMETRY as a Profession: • Optometry has been ranked 2nd best profession by the US News and World Report Jan 05, 2006 • Optometry rated 'excellent' in a guide to careers by the US News and World Report March 19, 2007 • Optometry rated as one of 'Best Careers 2008' by US News and World Report Dec 19, 2007
- 7. Like any other professionals, • Optometrists is a clean-meaningful job with immediate gratification. • It provides difference in peoples life, the way they see it. • There are different sector where one can go choosing their majors. • Higher degree of education is also available after bachelors like Masters, O.D i.e, Doctor Of Optometry who are trained and licensed to prescribe topical medications, most oral medications and in some states may be licensed to perform some surgeries.
- 8. THANK-YOU