Optometry offers a varied and flexible career with opportunities in private practice, hospital eye departments, research and education. Graduates can also go on to study an advanced practice MSc or PhD at City.
Accreditation
All of the optometry courses are accredited by the General Optical Council for the first part of the training of optometrists. Full registration is gained after successful completion of the Scheme for Registration (pre-registration year).
MOptom (Hons)
The MOptom is an additional year that runs in conjunction with students’ pre-registration training and consists of four Masters-level modules covering: — Critical thinking in ophthalmic practice — Glaucoma — Medical retina — Optometric practice.
Additional requirements Students are required to have enhanced disclosure and barring service clearance.
Professor John Lawrenson
Professor of Clinical Visual Science
Ophthalmic Dispensing Foundation year UCAS code B511 In partnership with City and Islington College, City University London offers a Foundation degree in Ophthalmic Dispensing, which can lead to a rewarding career as a dispensing optician. Dispensing opticians are trained to dispense and fit ophthalmic lenses and spectacle frames and to recognise basic ocular disorders. Applications from successful graduates of the Foundation degree are welcomed to the full BSc (Hons) Optometry degree here at City. For further information on the Foundation degree including our entry requirements, please visit our website: www.city.ac.uk
The MOptom prepares students for a career in specialist optometric practice, clinical research or the hospital eye service. Entry onto the MOptom course is limited to 20 places, subject to a selection process. Students will need to obtain an aggregate of at least 60 per cent on the first three years of the Optometry course in order to be considered for entry. For the most current and comprehensive information about this course, please visit our website.
Optometry BSc (Hons) or MOptom (Hons)
Career opportunities
Professor John Lawrenson qualified from Aston University before gaining a PhD in ocular anatomy from City University London in 1992. He has had a longstanding involvement with the development of the optometric profession and has been at the heart of several major changes over the past 20 years. In 2008, he led development of training for optometrists to become independent prescribers following changes in legislation. He has also played a significant role in changes to the Scheme for Registration run by the College of Optometrists for graduates undertaking their preregistration year. Professor Lawrenson’s current research centres on the investigation of strategies to prevent sight loss in diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration. His extensive academic and clinical experience informs his teaching across a wide range of undergraduate and Masters level modules, centred on eye disease and enhanced practice. Informed by his research and teaching, Professor Lawrenson also continues to contribute to the Clinical Management Guidelines published by the College of Optometrists, which act as the gold standard advice on evidence-based practice for prescribing optometrists. On Saturdays, he can still be found in high street practice to make sure he "keeps his hand in". www.city.ac.uk/john-lawrenson
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