Will AI Replace Orthoptists?

Examine patients with problems related to ocular motility, binocular vision, amblyopia, or strabismus.

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

Evaluate, diagnose, or treat disorders of the visual system with an emphasis on binocular vision or abnormal eye movements.

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

Provide instructions to patients or family members concerning diagnoses or treatment plans.

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

Perform diagnostic tests or measurements, such as motor testing, visual acuity testing, lensometry, retinoscopy, and color vision testing.

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

Provide nonsurgical interventions, including corrective lenses, patches, drops, fusion exercises, or stereograms, to treat conditions such as strabismus, heterophoria, and convergence insufficiency.

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

Develop nonsurgical treatment plans for patients with conditions such as strabismus, nystagmus, and other visual disorders.

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

Interpret clinical or diagnostic test results.

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

Develop or use special test and communication techniques to facilitate diagnosis and treatment of children or patients with disabilities.

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

Provide training related to clinical methods or orthoptics to students, resident physicians, or other health professionals.

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

Refer patients to ophthalmic surgeons or other physicians.

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

Prepare diagnostic or treatment reports for other medical practitioners or therapists.

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

Collaborate with ophthalmologists, optometrists, or other specialists in the diagnosis, treatment, or management of conditions such as glaucoma, cataracts, and retinal diseases.

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

Perform vision screening of children in schools or community health centers.

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

Present or publish scientific papers.

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

Participate in clinical research projects.

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

Assist ophthalmologists in diagnostic ophthalmic procedures, such as ultrasonography, fundus photography, and tonometry.

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