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Purpose: This career studies certificate is designed to provide training for those who desire to become optometric assistants. The optometric assistant is a supporting member of the vision care team who is employed by an optometrist.
Occupational Objectives: The optometric assistant provides tasks related to practice management, assists in frame selection, orders prescribed lenses and serves as a receptionist for an optometric practice. The duties are diversified and will vary depending on the individual optometric practice.
Graduates of the Optometric Assistant Program are eligible to sit for the Optometric Assistant Examination administered by the American Optometric Society.
Prerequisite: Students must take the College placement test and be eligible for ENG 111, College Composition I, and MTH 126, Mathematics for Allied Health.
| One Year | 1st Semester | 2nd Semester | 3rd Semester | ||||
| OPT | 121 | Optical Theory I | 4 | ||||
| OPT | 130 | Optometric Practice Management | 3 | ||||
| OMP | 105 | Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology | |||||
| of the Eye | 3 | ||||||
| OMP | 115 | Ophthalmic Optics & Ethics | 4 | ||||
| 1 OMP | 196 | On-Site Training | 3 | ||||
| SPD | 126 | Interpersonal Communications | 3 | ||||
| Total Credits/Semester | 7 | 7 | 6 | ||||
Total credits for the Optometric Assistant Career Studies Certificate = 20.
1 OMP 196 is supervised training which requires 15 hours per week at a clinical site.
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