Will AI Replace Optometrists?

Examine eyes, using observation, instruments, and pharmaceutical agents, to determine visual acuity and perception, focus, and coordination and to diagnose diseases and other abnormalities, such as glaucoma or color blindness.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Analyze test results and develop a treatment plan.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Prescribe, supply, fit and adjust eyeglasses, contact lenses, and other vision aids.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Prescribe medications to treat eye diseases if state laws permit.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Educate and counsel patients on contact lens care, visual hygiene, lighting arrangements, and safety factors.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Remove foreign bodies from the eye.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Provide patients undergoing eye surgeries, such as cataract and laser vision correction, with pre- and post-operative care.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Consult with and refer patients to ophthalmologist or other health care practitioner if additional medical treatment is determined necessary.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Prescribe therapeutic procedures to correct or conserve vision.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Provide vision therapy and low-vision rehabilitation.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.