Hello aspirant,

Hope you are doing great. An optometrist is a person, who examines, diagnoses, and treats the disorders and diseases, that are related to eyes. However, we may confuse it with regard to ophthalmologist, ophthalmologist is a person, who mainly perform surgeries and operations to the eyes.

The qualification for becoming an optometrist:

To be an optometrist, you need to earn a degree in the course of optometry, and this need to be approved by General Optical Council. The optometry is a four year course, you do not need NEET qualification to this. However, you must score, 50% marks in your 12th standard exams.

There are many colleges across India, providing optometry course, these are follows:

1) AIIMS Delhi

2) Shree Guru Gobind Singh Tricentenary University, Gurugaon

3) SRM Medical college, Chennai

4) AIIMS, Rishikesh

5) HIMS, Dehradun

6) Goa Medical College, Etc.,.

You can also check the link: https://medicine.careers360.com/colleges/list-of-boptom-colleges-in-india

Hope this helps you,

Good luck, thank you :)

Hey!

An optometrist is a qualified professional whose job it is to look after a patient's eyes. An optometrist's job include examining the eye with a variety of devices and recommending a remedy to an eye condition based on the findings. An optometrist is a doctor of optometry (OD) who specialises in eye care. Low vision treatment and vision therapy are also provided by some optometrists. B.Optom (Bachelor of Optometry) and M.Optom (Master of Optometry) degrees are available to students (Master of Optometry).

To become an Optometrist, following steps are to be done:

• You need to pass your 10+2 with a minimum of 50% from science stream.
• There are various entrance exams conducted for admission in this field. For example, All India Institute of Medical Sciences Optometry Test
• You will need to first complete your bachelors course. You can go for B.Sc. or B.OPTM.
• You can after completing your bachelors go for masters or you can start working with some entry level job.

For further detailed information, refer the link provided below.

https://www.careers360.com/careers/optometrist