Ophthalmologist

Duties and Responsibilities: An Ophthalmologist is a physician who specializes with the eyeball. They have to deal with the anatomy, physiology, and diseases of the eyeball. An ophthalmologist can do routine care practices like that of an eye test or prescribe you with eyeglasses or contact lenses if desired by the patient. An ophthalmologist will also perform eye surgeries because they are like surgeons. The usual perform cataract surgeries as well as corneal and laser eye surgeries.

Salary: An ophthalmologist will make anything from $105,015 to $249,268 a year.

Education: To become an ophthalmologist you will need to get a medical degree and have to have completed a Foundation Programme. In addition to that they will need 7  years of training. They need a four year bachelor’s and still need 4 more years of medical training. If that’s not all you are also required to complete a 3-8 year residency.

Demand for this profession: There is a high demand for this profession. There are less than 4% of ophthalmologist out of all the other physicians.

Reflection: I would love to become an Ophthalmologist. I need glasses myself so I’m very familiar with the struggles of having poor eyesight. I also like that I get to help people and the eyes are just so interesting.