Choose your level
Higher qualifications are suitable for optometrists at all stages of their careers and in all settings.
Qualifications are available at three levels, so you can progress to the highest levels of competence in one specific condition, or develop your skills across a range of key topics. If you do choose to progress through the levels, it’s a good idea to spend some time putting your learning at one level into practice before progressing to the next.
- Professional Certificate - a great way to boost your confidence and skills, and could be a key element in developing a portfolio career or getting more involved in community schemes.
- Professional Higher Certificate - could enable you to participate in community or hospital-based schemes involving the diagnosis, treatment and management of conditions such as glaucoma, or work in a consultant ophthalmologist-led medical retina service.
- Professional Diploma - designed for optometrists working in hospital clinics, or for community practitioners looking to offer commissioned services or run specialist clinics.
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