I think the literal translation is ‘eye measurer’, an optometrist is a health professional who has completed an undergraduate course at university, then a preregistration year, before being MCOptom.
An optometrist is what most people understand to be an optician, although strictly speaking an ‘optom’ examines eyes and issues a prescription, which an optician then makes into glasses.
The most basic role is in management of refractice errors:
They also examine for common visual problems including
- macular degeneration