Opthalmology
What do they do?
- Perform surgeries
- Do optical tests
Basic Surgeries and their purposes
- LASIK surgery(Laser Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis) - A surgery in which a laser performs keratomileusis, or the reshaping of the cornea, which allows you to see better.
- Cataract surgery - A surgery that removes the cataract, or the thing in your eye that makes you see everything blurry, by giving you a new lens.
Cataract Surgery
This when the ophthalmologists take a needle-like vacuum to remove the cataract-infected lens, then they will the lens with an artificial one.
Differences
LASIK Surgery steps
flip up to remove to corneal flap, laser reshapes cornea, cornea flap is replaced, eye heals without stitches :)
Salary
yearly salary depends on how long you have been doing it:
- 1 year = $200,000 a year
- 2 years = $225,000 a year
- 3 years = 250,000 a year
Education
- You have to have a bachelor's degree, which is 4 years.
- Take a 4 year Doctor of Medicine program.
- Live for 3 years as an ophthalmologist assistant.
- finally you need to get a Ph.D and go back to school for a year.
Career Ladder
Since your education takes such a long time, you can go straight to your job:)
Employment Outlook
Most start their own business, but if they don't they can be hired by other vision places.
Related Jobs
- Optician- fits glasses on people
- Optometrist- assists ophthalmologists during a surgery
Skills Needed
You have to be social to make your patients want to come back.
You got to know how to perform surgeries.
YAYS for this career
- You get paid more than most career.
- You get a chance to let people better see the world.
- You get to study the human eye.
- You get to make friends with your patients.
Disadvantages for this career
- You have to go to school for 12 years.
- You take the risk of failing an operation
- You need all A's to get into medical school so one B and you're out.
- This is not the career for you if you are grossed out by the human eye.
Sources
Trianglevisions.com, Salaryvoice.com, Wikipedia.org