Employment prospect of optometry technology

Optometry technology has a good employment prospect.

With the development of society and the arrival of the information age, people have higher and higher requirements for visual quality and pay more and more attention to eye health care. In recent years, the spectrum of ophthalmic diseases in China has changed significantly, and more patients suffer from both ophthalmic and optometric diseases, with a high proportion of diseases.

Our government attaches great importance to the prevention and treatment of blindness and has carried out various prevention and control projects. The development of society needs a large number of excellent optometrists, whose main task is to protect people's vision health. They not only mastered the clinical knowledge and skills of ophthalmology, but also mastered the complicated and professional optometry knowledge and the diagnosis and treatment of optometry diseases.

At the same time, through prescription, visual function training, optics, drugs and other means to diagnose, treat and prevent related optometry diseases, and comprehensively improve people's visual quality. Due to the extreme shortage of optometrists in China, there is a huge social demand for training a large number of excellent optometrists, and the development prospect of optometry specialty is broad.

Employment direction of optometry major

1. Graduates of this major can engage in eye examination, vision correction, eye surgery, eye optometry, optician and other work in various medical institutions. Specific positions include optometrist, ophthalmologist, orthokeratologist and so on.

2. You can be an ophthalmologist and optometrist in general hospitals, specialized hospitals, medical colleges, optical companies and optometry equipment research departments at all levels, and undertake optometry teaching and scientific research.

3. You can use the knowledge you have learned about medical devices, including specific operating procedures and how to protect them, and engage in related work in the medical device industry.