Optometry--What It Involves And How It Relates To Other Health Professions.

The purpose of our project is to develop a slide-based presentation which can be
used not only to educate beginning health professionals about the scope of optometry but also to demonstrate how these professionals may become involved with optometrists in their health-related field. Many of these future health care providers think of optometrists as people who merely provide glasses and contact lenses. They do not realize that optometrists diagnose and treat ocular disease, provide vision therapy, and prescribe low vision devices. In doing so, optometrists can work with physicians, x-ray or laboratory technicians, and even occupational therapists just to name a few. So, this presentation will explain what optometry is all about and how optometrists can work with other health professionals to provide the best patient care possible.