Optometrist for Camp Lejeune, NC As an Optometrist working at Camp Lejeune, you will serve the routine and acute eye-care needs of military personnel, their families
Your duties may include: - Refractive services, such as refractive surgery and prescribing spectacles or contact lenses
- Ocular pathology treatment
- Surgical co-management
- Subspecialty focuses such as low vision, traumatic brain injury rehab, specialty contact lenses
Qualifications: Degree: Doctor of Optometry.
Education: Graduate from a school or college approved by the Accreditation Council on Optometric Education (ACOE) of the American Optometric Association.
Licensure: Current, full, active, and unrestricted license to practice as an optometrist in any state
Core Duties for Optometrists: - Examine, diagnose, treat or prescribe courses of treatment for those suffering from diseases, injuries, or disorders of the visual system, the eye, and associated structures as well as diagnose related systemic conditions.
- Promote prevention and wellness, vision conservation, education and training activities, vision screenings, and positive eye and vision health behaviors.
- Conduct vision research in a problem area of considerable scope and complexity which requires novel approaches and which results in answers to important questions or important changes in existing methods and techniques.
- Advise and make professional clinical recommendations as to courses of action on problems and considerations of national scope in all areas of optometry.
- Provide full spectrum of clinical services to treat the most complex optometric-related patient conditions.
The scope of privileging includes, but is not limited to: Examination of eyes and the visual system to diagnose and treat eye diseases, injuries, and all
vision, accommodative, and binocular disorders; pre and post-operative assessment to include refractive surgery; assessment of color vision and perception; vision therapy; assessment, fitting
and prescribing of eyeglasses and contact lenses; prescription and use of diagnostic and
therapeutic medications and treatment for pain; superficial ocular foreign body removal and
epilation; testing and analysis of computerized diagnostic tests, laboratory tests, and imaging of
the eye and associated structures related to or affecting the eyes and/or visual system.
Optometrists also co-manage conditions that affect the ocular health and vision of their patients
or refer them to secondary/tertiary levels of care
- Perform basic visual acuity tests.
- Measure and record distance and near vision; perform color testing and pinhole vision.
- Perform Contrast Sensitivity testing.
- Perform Lensometry.
- Perform autorefraction and autokeratometery.
- Perform basic ocular motility tests.
- Perform automated visual field testing.
- Perform ophthalmic fundus photography.
- Perform and assess Corneal topography and Pentacam scans.
- Assist during surgery in the main and local operating rooms
- Perform Glare Testing.
- Teach Contact Lens care.
Hours/Schedule: Monday-Friday; 730am-430pm
MDPerm is an Equal Opportunity Employer. MDPerm does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.