What will you learn?

  • Organize the optical service in community outreach programmes
  • Do the frame measurements, centering and decentering
  • Do lens glazing by manual process
  • Guide the patients to choose suitable frames and appropriate lenses
  • Guide the patients to choose suitable frames and appropriate lenses
Course Location
Batch Number 1
No of Seats
21
Course In-Charge
Suman Das Test
Contact Details
HB-36/A/1, Sec.-III, Salt Lake City, Kolkata – 700106
+91 9153330883
+91 9153330883
Eligibility Criteria
  • Apart from Indian candidates, this course is open to all countries in South East Asia Region & Africa.
  • Selection will be made on first come first basis subject to meeting the eligibility criteria.
  • The candidate should have one year experience in the field of Ophthalmic.
  • The candidate must have passed in higher secondary exam and has a working knowledge in basic English which will be the common medium of the course.
Description
  • The objective of this course is to develop the optician’s skills and knowledge for quality vision care services.
  • Aravind Eye Care System offers advanced training in optical dispensing and trains the optical technicians in a well-equipped optical training centre.
  • A trained optician is required for the management of avoidable blindness by means of modern scientific dispensing.
  • Optical dispensing is a subspecialty of optometry which includes all procedures from the time the glass prescription is presented to the optician till the patient receives the pair of glasses satisfactorily.