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Ezra Medical Center offers you the confidence and convenience of having a highly trained eye care team as well as the most modern technology right here in our own community. Our licensed optometry staff is committed to providing you with the fullest spectrum of primary vision care available. Our goal is to provide our patients with quality, complete eye care using advanced instrumentation to detect conditions both inside and outside the eye.
Optometrists diagnose vision problems and eye disease, prescribe eyeglasses and contact lenses, and prescribe drugs to treat eye disorders. They cannot perform surgery, but they often provide patients with pre and post surgical care. Sometimes ophthalmologists and optometrists work in the same practice and co-manage patients.
Education
Optometrists must complete at least 3 years of study at an accredited college or university before beginning optometry training; however, most optometry students have a bachelor’s degree or higher. Next, they must attend an accredited 4-year optometry school and, after graduation, they must pass written and clinical state board examinations. Some optometrists go on to obtain a master's degree or Ph.D. in visual science, physiological optics, neurophysiology, or public health. A 1-year postgraduate clinical residency is available for optometrists who want to specialize in one of the following areas:
- Contact lenses
- Family practice optometry
- Geriatric optometry
- Hospital-based optometry
- Ocular disease
- Pediatric optometry
- Primary care optometry
- Vision therapy
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