Our eyes are the most wonderful organ we have. It is with the vision that we view this beautiful world and all living being including our loved ones. No one would like to imagine a life without eyesight. We take care of our eyes as much as we can so that we can see everything clearly. When we have a doubt about our eyesight, we go to an Ophthalmologist or we go to an optic shop where eye checkups can be done. It is a specialist who checks your vision in an optician shop using eye scanning machines and techniques to check your vision. That eye specialist is called an Optometrist.
An Optometrist is the one who checks your vision, tests your eyesight; calculate the perfection of your eyesight, discusses the details of the issues of the vision with you if any; prescribe the correct lens for your problem of visual impairment.
As per the statistics of 2015, India has a high demand for ophthalmic technologists to take care the vision of everybody including the poor. In India presently there is a need of more than 1, 15, 000 optometrists at service. So there are great opportunities in the Ophthalmology branch of medical sciences for aspiring students at present and in future.