Orthoptists
Diagnose and treat visual system disorders such as binocular vision and eye movement impairments.
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AI Resilience Score
Score 5/6: low AI task exposure, strong human advantage provides strong protection from AI displacement (estimated from legacy data)
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11% of tasks can be accelerated by AI
0% projected (2024-2034)
EPOCH score: 24/25
Key Responsibilities
- Examine patients with problems related to ocular motility, binocular vision, amblyopia, or strabismus.
- Evaluate, diagnose, or treat disorders of the visual system with an emphasis on binocular vision or abnormal eye movements.
- Provide instructions to patients or family members concerning diagnoses or treatment plans.
- Perform diagnostic tests or measurements, such as motor testing, visual acuity testing, lensometry, retinoscopy, and color vision testing.
- Provide nonsurgical interventions, including corrective lenses, patches, drops, fusion exercises, or stereograms, to treat conditions such as strabismus, heterophoria, and convergence insufficiency.
- Develop nonsurgical treatment plans for patients with conditions such as strabismus, nystagmus, and other visual disorders.
- Interpret clinical or diagnostic test results.
- Develop or use special test and communication techniques to facilitate diagnosis and treatment of children or patients with disabilities.
- Provide training related to clinical methods or orthoptics to students, resident physicians, or other health professionals.
- Refer patients to ophthalmic surgeons or other physicians.
Education & Training
Typical Entry Education
Post-baccalaureate certificate
Time to Job Ready
6-12 years
Based on Job Zone 5. For formal education duration only, see education_duration.
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O*NET Code: 29-1299.02