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Vision Technician is an allied healthcare professional who possess comprehensive knowledge and experience in vision management, and to assist ophthalmologist and optometrist in prevention of blindness. A Vision Technician supports people affected by various refractive errors to understand and manage the condition. Vision Technician is an allied healthcare professional who possess comprehensive knowledge and experience in vision management, and to assist ophthalmologist and optometrist in prevention of blindness. They will learn the contact lens insertion and removal process so as to teach and demonstrate concerned patients and make them understand how to maintain the hygiene of contact lens case, the schedule of wearing contact lens plan as prescribed by their ophthalmologist.

Eligibility Criteria for BSS Diploma in Vision Care Technician

• The applicant must be completed Tenth standard or Twelfth or its equivalent from a recognized school board.

Course Duration

• One years

Course syllabus

Duties and Responsibilities

• Taking patient medical histories.

• Instructing patients about medications, tests and procedures.

• Performing vision and diagnostic tests.

• Assisting with patient procedures.

• Coordinating patient scheduling.

• Supervising and training other allied ophthalmic personnel.

• Performing office management duties.

• Scheduling appointments

• Maintaining medical records

• Taking and recording vital signs and medical histories

• Preparing patients for examination

• Dispensing ophthalmic prescription.

Employers

• Surgical hospitals

• Outpatient care centres

• Hospitals

• Eye care canters

• Spectacles shops

• Eye Hospitals

Skills

• History taking/medical charting

• Pupillary assessment.

• Lensometry.

• Keratometry.

• Ocular motility.

• Refractometry.

Higher Studies after BSS Diploma in Vision Care Technician

• Students who have completed one year of BSS Diploma in Vision Care Technician after Tenth or Twelfth are eligible to get admission to the related Under Graduation courses or its equivalent.

For Getting BSS courses affiliation outside Kerala state, feel free to contact Ph: 0471 272 1400, 0471 2721600, 0471 4014800