What professional category does optometry belong to?

Ophthalmic optics belongs to medicine.

Ophthalmology mainly studies the basic knowledge and skills of ophthalmology, optometry and modern optical technology, and carries out vision correction, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of eye diseases. For example: the examination of eye vision and astigmatism, the implementation of eye refraction and correction, eye optometry and glasses, and the publicity of eye health knowledge.

After graduation, students majoring in optometry can work as ophthalmologists and optometrists in general hospitals, specialized hospitals, medical colleges, optical companies and optometry equipment research departments at all levels to undertake the teaching and scientific research of optometry. This major can be engaged in the following positions: optometrist, ophthalmologist and orthokeratologist.

Employment prospect of optometry major: With the increasingly fierce competition in the labor market and the increasingly severe employment situation, it has become a serious social problem for unemployed youth, unemployed college students and laid-off workers to choose jobs and re-employment.

However, there are thousands of optical companies in the province, which are eager for talents, lack of professionals and constantly recruit people, almost to the point where there is a shortage of "manpower" as long as one store. But generally speaking, the employment form of imaging medicine is better than that of clinic, but this major needs few people for hospitals and is easily saturated.

Institutions offering optometry (undergraduate) majors are as follows:

1, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, referred to as Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, is a university jointly founded by Sichuan Provincial People's Government, Ministry of Education and state administration of traditional chinese medicine, and is headed by the education administrative department of Sichuan Provincial People's Government. It is a new round of "double first-class" construction of colleges and universities in China.

The school is located at No.37, Shierqiao Road, jinniu district, Chengdu, Sichuan, covering an area of about 1.800 mu. There are 19 colleges, 4 directly affiliated hospitals, 8 non-directly affiliated hospitals and 4 directly affiliated hospitals.

2. Southwest Medical University

Southwest Medical University, referred to as Southwest Medical University for short, formerly known as Southwest Sichuan Medical College, was founded in 195 1. It is a provincial college in Sichuan Province, and has been selected into the excellent doctor education and training plan and the excellent doctor (Chinese medicine) education and training plan. The legal residence of the school is No.1 1 Xianglin Road, Longmatan District, with Zhongshan Campus and Chengbei Campus.

Southwest Medical University covers an area of 1.3407 million square meters, with more than 20,000 students and 8,000 medical staff. The school has 20 colleges (departments), 33 undergraduate majors, 1 doctoral degree authorization points, 8 first-class discipline master degree authorization points, and 10 master degree authorization points.

3. Harbin Medical University

Harbin Medical University was founded in 1926. It is a medical institution of higher learning with profound historical and cultural connotations. It is a university jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the National Health and Wellness Commission and the People's Government of Heilongjiang Province, and has been selected into the basic capacity building project of universities in the central and western regions and the excellent doctoral education and training plan.

The school's predecessor was Binjiang Medical College founded by Dr. Lian Dewu, a pioneer of modern medicine in China, in 1926, and was renamed Harbin Medical University in 1938. 1in April, 949, it merged with the First and Second Branches of China Medical University, the Health School of Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army, to form the new Harbin Medical University.