B.Optom: Bachelor of Optometry.

Overview

The B.Optom prepares students to diagnose and treat primary eye diseases and injuries and enables them to prescribe corrective lenses and vision enhancement devices. Graduates work alongside healthcare teams to provide comprehensive eye care.

Delivery follows a regular semester pattern combining classroom instruction with hands-on training in labs, refraction clinics and internship rotations, along with seminars, group discussions, role plays and demonstrations.

Eligibility

• Minimum 50% marks in each subject, including English, at HSC / CBSE / ISC level
• Physics, Chemistry and Biology or Mathematics as subjects
• 12 years of total education completed
• At least 17 years old by December 31 of the admission year, with no upper age limit

Scope

The profession of optometry throws open interesting possibilities:

• Correction of refractive errors of the eye and prescription of glasses
• Designing and fitting of contact lenses, prosthetic eyes and low vision aids
• Evaluation of the health status of the eye and timely referral to ophthalmologists
• Detection of eye diseases like cataract, glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy
• Public health optometry in schools, colleges, low income and rural areas
• Occupational optometry in industries
• Optometric counselling for patients with poor sight, colour blindness and hereditary vision defects
• Vision rehabilitation and follow-up of discharged patients
• Public education on ocular hygiene, nutrition and environmental awareness
• Higher education in India and abroad

Course outline

Affiliated to The Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University. Regular semester pattern with hands-on practical training in labs, refraction clinics, seminars, group discussions and demonstrations.