STUDENTS keen to become an optometrist, need to spend four years training as one after having completed the STPM or equivalent qualifications.
At International University College of Technology Twintech, optometry is offered as a four-year Bachelor's degree programme that culminates in the Bachelor of Optometry degree with honours.
The programme comprises basic studies in the sciences that underpin clinical studies later on in the course.
The later stages of the course is very clinical where students spend most of their time in various clinical sites, observing and delivering supervised ocular and visual care to patients.
Twintech is proud to announce that its clinical system encompasses a range of clinical experience covering in-house clinics, retail high street practice, hospital eye departments and centres meant for the care of people who have very low vision.
According to Professor Azrin Ariffin, Dean of the Faculty of Optometry and Vision Sciences at Twintech, the BOptom(Hons) programme at Twintech is modelled on the best of both the Australian and British optometric syllabi.
It has also received full accreditation from The Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland. It is the only privately-run local optometry programme that has been evaluated by the MQA/MOC Accreditation team.
Graduates in optometry are highly in demand in Malaysia. The optimal ratio of 1 optometrist to 10,000 population is nowhere near attainment at the moment.
Although the number of optical outlets are one too many especially in urban areas, the actual number of graduate university- trained optometrists is still too few to meet the demand for vision care, and of rural areas where there is a lack of properly- trained optometrists.
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