What is the difference between medical optometry and traditional optometry?

The hospital is just a hype concept.

Optometry is actually the knowledge learned in the "optical optics" major. The content learned includes the structure of the eyeball, the functions of eye tissues, the identification of eye diseases, etc. The most important thing is to learn optical knowledge, concave lenses, convex lenses , cylindrical mirror, prism, imaging rules, binocular coordination ability, etc. What they have learned is for optometry, and they can also be said to be the people who know the most about optometry. The focus of their studies is optometry. Such people are called optometrists after they come out.

What doctors learn is medical knowledge, mainly for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. They only have a passing knowledge of eye optometry, so they are not proficient in optometry knowledge.

But Chinese people are different from people abroad. People abroad know that for eye disease, you need to see an ophthalmologist, and for optometry, you need to see an optometrist. But most Chinese people think that for optometry, you need to see a doctor.

Optical shops usually have optometry technicians doing optometry, and hospitals generally have doctors doing optometry. These two places compete for customers. Later, I don’t know who invented a term called "medical optometry" to attract customers. Customers even feel that there is the word "medicine" in front of optometry, and they take it for granted that they should go to a doctor for optometry. In fact, there is no such name in the professional terminology of optometry.

Optometry is an optical problem. For example, it is like a camera. Whether the picture is clear or unclear is a problem of the accuracy of the optical focusing. It is an optical problem in the complete sense and has nothing to do with medicine.

General optometry is actually divided into many methods, including subjective optometry, objective optometry, and more subdivisions, such as computer optometry, retinoscopy optometry, trial frame optometry, comprehensive optometry optometry, etc.

People currently engaged in optometry can be divided into four major categories.

First, I didn’t learn anything. I only used the method of computer optometry, adding and subtracting lenses to give people’s optometry.

Second, initial training is for quick personnel. Such people have limited learning and do not learn in depth. They can do simple things, but they are not good at slightly difficult ones, so they are mismatched.

Third, doctors do optometry. They know a little about optometry, but not in depth. To be honest, their level should be about the same as that of ordinary optometrists. But we know a lot about the structure of the eyeball and eye diseases. What we are talking about here are real ophthalmologists, and ordinary doctors know even less about the eyes.

Fourth, optometry technicians need to learn more in-depth about optometry. In particular, first-level optometry technicians are required to know all optometry knowledge when obtaining this qualification, especially difficult optometry knowledge must be mastered. A thesis writing and thesis defense process is required to pass.

Many operations of optometry require the optometrist to understand the principles before they can operate them. If they do not learn the basics, some items cannot be performed. It is impossible for a low-level technician to understand high-level things. For example, it is impossible for a primary school student to solve problems for junior high school students.

If the eyes are not difficult to test, most people can do it, but the accuracy is hard to say. If the eye condition is more complicated, you must find an optometrist to solve it.

However, some hospitals are now gradually allowing people with qualifications as optometric technicians to perform optometry. Such people who understand both medical knowledge and optometry knowledge should be called dual personnel, but they are still very few at present. Some hospitals also hire optometry technicians to do optometry, but most hospitals still use doctors to do optometry, and they vigorously promote the word "medical optometry". Such hospitals must do optometry by doctors.

Whether it is professional or not depends on the level of the optometrist at the time, rather than whether it is a hospital or a large optical shop. Many people think that large optical shops and hospitals are professional in optometry. In fact, this is simply incorrect. The reason is: Let me tell you:

First of all, what I want to tell you is that if you want to get accurate optometry, you should go to an optometrist. The optometrist’s main focus is optometry, and he has the deepest knowledge of optics. , knowledge about eye diseases.

The main focus of doctors is to treat diseases, and ophthalmologists are also specialized in treating eye diseases. However, they do not have a deep understanding of the optical knowledge involved in optometry, and they only skim it in their studies.

So many people in society think that optometry should be done by an ophthalmologist, but this is actually a misunderstanding.

Of course, there are places where there are dual-qualified personnel. What does this mean? It means that they have obtained both the qualifications of doctors and the qualifications of optometry technicians, but there are too few such people.

In hospitals in more places, doctors do optometry. This is actually a wrong approach and can be regarded as an offside approach. But people don’t understand. They always think that doctors do optometry better than optometrists. When you meet a doctor and a real optometrist, If the results obtained by the optometrist are different, it is often believed that the doctor's test is correct and the optometrist's test is wrong. In fact, the true situation is often exactly the opposite.

The above is the difference between doctors and optometrists. Let’s talk about who is professional in optometry between large optical shops and small optical shops.

People with certain social experience should understand the fact that the main characteristics of bosses who can really be big bosses and open big stores or chain stores are strong communication skills and good marketing management. Extroverted personality. But people with this kind of personality cannot calm down and study. As a result, their professional and technical results are definitely not ideal, so their technical level cannot be very high.

This phenomenon is actually a common phenomenon. For example, people with good academic performance often become ordinary employees when they grow up, while some naughty people with poor academic performance often become ordinary employees when they grow up. It is precisely these people who are the big bosses.

Some of these bosses attach great importance to technology and hire highly skilled optometrist technicians to help customers in the store. Such stores are quite good in terms of professional skills. There are also some bosses who do not pay attention to technology, and in order to save employees’ wages, they only hire optometrists instead of optometrists. Of course, such stores do not have strong professional skills.

As for technicians who become optometrists, they are often introverts who like to study hard, are interested in technology, and are willing to write professional papers. Of course, such people It is easy to obtain the qualification of an optometrist, but such people are introverted and lack communication and management skills, and they also lack the courage to invest. This will result in these people either working for big shop owners specializing in optometry technology, or opening their own shops. But they are often small shops.

You can analyze the above situations and see which stores are professional and which are not. Are the results completely different from what you imagined? ! !

So how to distinguish who is professional and who is not? In fact, there is a very simple method, which is to ask the optometry operator to issue his technical level certificate during the optometry, read the content of the certificate clearly, and distinguish whether he is the party involved.

The division of optometry levels is as follows:

Level 1/Senior Technician

Level 2/Technician

Level 3/Advanced Skills

Level 4/Intermediate Skills

Level 5/Basic Skills

Level 1 and Level 2 are the real optometrists, followed by the word technician, three or four Level 5 is optometrist, followed by the word "skill".