OPHTALMIC TECHNICIAN
The mission of this program is to train highlyy qualified ophthalmic technicians capable of providing holistic high quality ophthalmic assistance in diverse clinical and academic settings locally, nationally and internationally.
Generic Skills
- Be responsible and reflexive;
- Have empowered gestural and capabilities; relational
- Recognize its emotions and be able to use with the acquired professional necessary;
- Have a trust and a proven insurance;
- Have the critical capacity and questioning;
- Develop an ethics and a normal professional;
- Makethoughtfuldecisions;
- Act with autonomy and responsibility in the fields of well delimited its function.
Specific skills
- Provide primary vision care ranging from sight testing and correction to the diagnosis and management of vision changes
- Practice optometry technology, which primarily involves performing eye exams and vision tests
- Detect certain eye abnormalities and prescribing and dispensing corrective lenses
- Assist the ophthalmologists and eye surgeons.
The ophthalmic technicians will be able to work in:
- Eye Clinics
- Optometry Department
- Refraction centers and academic settings etc.




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