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Subject: BS Optometry
Date: 26-May-2009
 
Question: I am a +2 science student. I wish to study BS Optometry. Which are the best institutions for that? What is the scope of this course for getting a job? I have heard that BITS pilani have. Is it recognised by governemnt.
I shall be gratefull for your advice.
 
Answer: Optometric physicians or optometrists are the initially health and eye care professionals and concerned with the vision care. These physicians are determines the refractive error and suggests appropriate correction. The job includes eye testing, Diagnosing visual problems, vision and orthoptics training, partial site and patient's optometric counseling, color blindness, designing spectacles, fitting spectacles, searching hereditary vision defect, low vision aids and contact lens.

Optometry goes hand in hand with the Ophthalmology during treatment of visual disorder but optometrists shouldn't confuse with the dispensing opticians or ophthalmologists. There are various institutions across the country offer courses in Optometry

  1. Academy of Optometry, Kolkata
  2. Aditya Jyot Institute of Optometry, Mumbai
  3. All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi
  4. All India Institute of Optometrical Sciences (AIIOS), Kolkata
  5. Bausch & Lomb School of Optometry, Hyderabad
  6. Bharati Vidyapeeth's Medical College, Pune
  7. College of Optometry and Ophthalmic Sciences, Nasik
  8. Elite School Of Optometry, Chennai
  9. Jnana Prabhodini Medical Trust School of Optometry, Pune
  10. Lions Arvind Institute of Community Ophthalmology, Madurai
  11. Manipal College of Allied Health Sciences, Manipal
  12. MEH School of Optometry, Mumbai
  13. Optometry Research & Training Institute (ORTI), Uttar Pradesh
  14. Sarojini Devi Eye Hospital & Institute of Ophthalmology , Hyderabad
  15. Schells Eye Hospital (Unit of Christian Medical College) , Vellore
  16. School of Optometry : Gandhi Eye Hospital , Aligarh
  17. School of Optometry : Janakalyan Eye Hospital, Lucknow
  18. School of Orthoptics & Optometry , Sitapur
  19. The Lotus College of Optometry, Mumbai

The students of ESO absorbed clinical optometrist in the institutions such as Sankara Nethralaya and other popular and renowned hospitals in the India after completion of course.

ESO students may also work in the Indian companies or multinational companies such as Bausch & Lomb, Essilor, Johnson & Johnson, Lawrence & Mayo, etc.

They work as Researchers, lecturers, and the Heads of optometry associations and colleges in India and in abroad. In different parts of the country, they also do optometry practice independently.

All the best
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