Job Description
Education
- Degree in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine or optometry
Tasks
- Examine patients' eyes, conduct tests and use specialized instruments to determine visual efficiency
- Prescribe eyeglasses, contact lenses and other vision aids to correct patients' vision
- Prescribe treatment to conserve, improve and correct vision and other ocular disorders
- Refer patients to ophthalmologists or other physicians and surgeons when ocular or other diseases are found
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Licensure by provincial or territorial authorities
- Membership in the Canadian Association of Optometrists (CAO)
Experience
- Experience an asset