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Optometry is a major primary health care profession in the United State whose major thrust is directed towards caring for mankind’s eye problems. The profession is the third largest of the recognized and licensed health professions.
Optometrists who make up the profession deliver general eye care at the primary delivery level. They are specifically licensed in Puerto Rico, all fifty states and the District of Columbia.
Optometry is relatively young when compared to other health care professions and was first recognized as a profession in the United States by the Minnesota Legislature in 1901. The development of the field has been substantially related to the development of instrument technology and research findings. Many of the advances can be attributed to research conducted in the schools of optometry. This research has produced clinical instruments for use in the areas of glaucoma detection, retinoscopy, low vision, visual field examination and contact lens use. Integration of psychological and optometric knowledge has led to the utilization of behavior modification techniques in optometry’s solutions to vision problems.
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The School of Optometry at Inter American University of Puerto Rico offers a bilingual Doctor of Optometry Degree Program dedicated to achieving excellence in clinical eye care. Its clinical program serves mainly Spanish speaking patients and requires students and clinicians to have a working ability of Spanish. All the lectures are given in English. English is the official written language and all examinations, books and other printed material are in English. The School is the only accredited bilingual program in the U.S., Caribbean or Latin America and as such serves as a model for other Optometric Programs in Hispanic countries. The School promotes research and scholarship by its faculty, students and graduates for their professional growth and for the future growth and development of the profession.
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