Hi maam/sir, i am doing Bsc optometry (4 yr), what i can do after my course? Can i become an eye surgion?
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Student Expert
8th Mar, 2019
Hello Challa,
A Bachelor degree in Optometry. Not enough to work as an Optometrist. That requires a doctorate (O.D.). A doctorate allows one to be addressed as “Doctor” but it’s not a medical degree. Examples of doctoral degrees are OD, Ph.D., EdD, PharmD and so on. To become an Ophthalmologist, a doctor hi specializes in disorders and diseases of the eye, one would need a medical degree, an M.D.
To be an eye doctor, one need to do DNB/MS/DOMS in ophthalmology in India.
BSc optometry will make you an optometrist, not a doctor.
After B. Sc you can go for M. Sc and other higher studies or be an optometrist and work as an optometrist.
Hope this helps.
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