Do you know that

50% of your brain power is used for seeing?

161,000,000 people in the world are visually impaired?

In urban India alone there are about 50,000,000 people needing eye glasses?

Optometry is the Primary Eye Care Profession dedicated to care for the most treasured of human senses – Vision. It is a dynamic health care profession that provides a wide range of interesting, rewarding and challenging career opportunities. The profession provides an intellectually stimulating career with a humanitarian role in today's society.

Through academic and clinical training, optometrists acquire knowledge and skills needed to diagnose, treat and prevent problems of the visual system. Providing health education, managing preventive regimen, supplying vision care to special groups of patients are all part of an optometrist's work. He/She must recognize ocular and visual signs of disease, understand the wide range of health problems affecting patients and refer patients to appropriate specialists. Public health activities include vision screening for communities, industries and schools.

Scope for Optometrists

The scope for optometric practice in India and abroad is great and unlimited. Optometrists practice individually, in group practices with other eye care professionals, and work in teaching and research settings.

Need for optometrists

Optometry is the profession that forms the first line of defense against the massive problem of visual impairment. India requires about 200,000 optometrists as opposed to the currently available 1,200!

Elite School of Optometry has been producing world class optometrists for the last 22 years.

Optometry (Greek: optos meaning seen or visible and metria meaning measurement ) is the health care profession concerned with examination, and diagnosis of the diseases of the eye and related structures and with determination and treatment of vision problems using lenses and other optical aids

Optometrists are independent primary eye care providers who specialize in the examination and diagnosis of the eye and the visual system and treatment and management of diseases and disorders of the visual system, as well as the diagnosis of related systemic conditions.

Role of optometrists

Optometrists play three important roles in this society, namely,

Primary Eye Care Professionals , who diagnose eye conditions like cataract, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy etc. and refer them to appropriate eye care specialist as well as follow up those cases if referred back.

Vision Care Specialists , who specialize in the management of refractive error (eye power) by prescribing lenses and contact lenses, fitting contact lenses in corneal pathologies, visual rehabilitation in low vision subjects, vision therapy for lazy eye and binocular vision anomalies, dispensing of spectacles, occupational optometry, etc.

and/or

Vision Scientists , who involve in vision research

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES :

ESO students are absorbed as clinical optometrist in to institutions like Sankara Nethralaya and other renowned hospitals in India on completion of the course.

ESO alumni also work in Indian and Multinational companies like Bausch & Lomb, Essilor, Lawrence & Mayo, Johnson & Johnson, etc.

They also work as Lecturers, Researchers and Heads of optometry colleges and associations in India and abroad.

They also do independent optometry practice in different parts of our country.