Optometry-A career option in India
Students, in India are busy selecting a course for deciding their career. Before they select a career of choice should know about the various choices available.
It is always the engineering or the medicine which most people opt for . But there are so many other options available around. It is the tendency of the students to select a course because their friends did that, or their parents told them so. But before joining any course what all need to be known to the student?
Whether the course of choice will have a peak trend when you start your career?
How long you need to study to settle well in the career? i.e. higher studies/ specialisations
The college offering the course has all the facilities?i.e. infrastructure/professional faculties.
These are few basic questions for which a student should know an answer before deciding. The IT industry which was at its boom saw a slow phase in the recent time.Likewise any sector or Industry will have a peak time or a decline. But the only industry which is always sought after or for which the demand is never nil is the health Industry. The career you choose if it revolves around this, you will always have a peak career.
All the professional courses need higher degrees/ specializations without which surviving in the industry becomes difficult. Ultimately, for you to settle in life takes almost 8-10 years depending on the field, be it medicine
or engineering. The salary for a just B.E. graduate is so poor nowadays.
Your career also depends on the college from which you graduate. There are many colleges offering the professional courses. But many do not have sufficient faculities or the infrastructure for the students to successfully complete their study.
The answer to all these problems lie in selecting a career in which not many have stepped in but which will be at its peak sooner in India. In the health industry, there are many such options of which optometry is one. Optometry is a primary health care profession , specializing in dealing with eye care, the visual problems and diagnosing eye diseases and planning preventive care.
A four year professional degree in optometry will let you have an independent practice soon after you graduate. the scope for higher studies in India and abroad are many.The career can be a clinical one practicing as Clinical optometrists and helping the visually deprived or research , working as Vision scientists.There are many specialisations available too.In India Optometry has a rewarding career as a lecturer too in the optometry colleges.
Optometry is one of the top ten professions in the U.S.,U.K. and Australia.
There are many colleges offering Optometry course, select the one with four years professional degree by a recognised university. Elite School of optometry, is run by Sankara Nethralaya, a premier hospital for tertiary eye care, in collaboration with Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.
It is always the engineering or the medicine which most people opt for . But there are so many other options available around. It is the tendency of the students to select a course because their friends did that, or their parents told them so. But before joining any course what all need to be known to the student?
Whether the course of choice will have a peak trend when you start your career?
How long you need to study to settle well in the career? i.e. higher studies/ specialisations
The college offering the course has all the facilities?i.e. infrastructure/professional faculties.
These are few basic questions for which a student should know an answer before deciding. The IT industry which was at its boom saw a slow phase in the recent time.Likewise any sector or Industry will have a peak time or a decline. But the only industry which is always sought after or for which the demand is never nil is the health Industry. The career you choose if it revolves around this, you will always have a peak career.
All the professional courses need higher degrees/ specializations without which surviving in the industry becomes difficult. Ultimately, for you to settle in life takes almost 8-10 years depending on the field, be it medicine
Your career also depends on the college from which you graduate. There are many colleges offering the professional courses. But many do not have sufficient faculities or the infrastructure for the students to successfully complete their study.
The answer to all these problems lie in selecting a career in which not many have stepped in but which will be at its peak sooner in India. In the health industry, there are many such options of which optometry is one. Optometry is a primary health care profession , specializing in dealing with eye care, the visual problems and diagnosing eye diseases and planning preventive care.
A four year professional degree in optometry will let you have an independent practice soon after you graduate. the scope for higher studies in India and abroad are many.The career can be a clinical one practicing as Clinical optometrists and helping the visually deprived or research , working as Vision scientists.There are many specialisations available too.In India Optometry has a rewarding career as a lecturer too in the optometry colleges.
Optometry is one of the top ten professions in the U.S.,U.K. and Australia.
There are many colleges offering Optometry course, select the one with four years professional degree by a recognised university. Elite School of optometry, is run by Sankara Nethralaya, a premier hospital for tertiary eye care, in collaboration with Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.
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