What is the Duration?
Duration : 4 yrs
Highlights: The course curriculum includes 1 year internship period.
What is Optometrist?
Optometrist is a health care profession who deals with the examination, diagnosis, treatment and management of diseases and disorders of the visual system. One can also define Optometry as the science of eye equipment (including lenses and spectacles), which is imbued with the idea of improving the vision of the human eye and removing all kinds of obstacles of sight which an individual may experience.Optometry is one of the top ten income-earning professions, with the benefit of regular working hours, flexibility in choosing different practices, and multiple location options.
What is in Curriculum?
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Human Anatomy & Physiology including
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Ocular Anatomy & Physiology
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Ocular Pathology & Microbiology
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General & Ocular Biochemistry
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Physical & Geometrical Optics
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General & Ocular Pharmacology including Pharmacy
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Ophthalmic Instruments and Appliances
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Refraction (including prescription, making & fitting of glasses)
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Clinical & Advanced Optics & Orthoptics
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Clinical & Advanced Refraction and Contact lenses
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Community Ophthalmology & Eye Bank
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Investigations in Clinical Ophthalmology and Management of OT
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Project Work for a duration of 6 months
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Specialty Internship Training for a duration of 6 months in Six Specialty Areas
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Refraction and Contact Lenses
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Mechanical Optics
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Community Ophthalmology
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Pediatric Ophthalmology & Orthoptics
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Ophthalmic Theater Techniques
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Basic and Advanced Ophthalmic Instrumentation & Photography
What is Top Job profile?
Some most famous job profiles of Optometrists are given below.
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Customer Care Associate
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Private Practitioner
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Professor
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Trainee Optometrist
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Vision Consultant
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Optometry Researcher
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What are Career Prospects?
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The scope for optometric practice is extensively dynamic and challenging in India and abroad. Students who have the desire, academic skills and commitment to aid people can envision Optometric career. According to reports, every third blind person in the world is an Indian and millions of others suffer from defective vision. With a career in the respective domain, students achieve professional growth, respect from community, job flexibility and financial success In India, the demand for qualified optometrists is expected to rise sharply in the coming years. Industry estimates in India point a requirement of over 2 lakhs institutionally-qualified optometrists as opposed to the current availability of a meager 5,000 qualified professionals. Also, with leading optical chains coming up, Optometrists are highly demanded.
Employability?
This degree will help you to get the post of Optometric and Ophthalmic Assistants. Who are in involve in testing of glasses of eyes and dispense contact lenses and eyeglasses. An Ophthalmic Assistant play a vital roll along with the ophthalmologist/surgeon in the patients vision care. As an ophthalmic medical technician, you may serve as a surgical assistant to the ophthalmologist. As an ophthalmic photographer you will photograph the eye structure for diagnosis and documentation. As a chair-side assistant you will record important information determined by the doctor. You will also perform certain duties to assist the doctor during the patient examination. Following the examination, you will assist the patient with instructions, education, prescriptions, treatment, eye patches, scheduling follow-up examinations, referring, etc. in nutshell you are involve all medical, surgical and diagnostic activities for which a patient consults an ophthalmologist
What are the documents that we should submit at the time of admission?
The students seeking admission should submit the below mentioned certificates in original as it is required to verify the eligibility and to approve admission to the course by University. For Indians seeking admission - Marks card of Secondary Education (10 th standard), Marks card of Higher Secondary Education (12 th standard), Transfer Certificate issued by the concerned university, Migration Certificate issued by the concerned university, Date of Birth Certificate.
