Ortottisti
Diagnosticare e trattare i disturbi del sistema visivo come la visione binoculare e i disturbi del movimento oculare.
Strumenti tecnologici
Attività principali
- Examine patients with problems related to ocular motility, binocular vision, amblyopia, or strabismus.
- Evaluate, diagnose, or treat disorders of the visual system with an emphasis on binocular vision or abnormal eye movements.
- Provide instructions to patients or family members concerning diagnoses or treatment plans.
- Perform diagnostic tests or measurements, such as motor testing, visual acuity testing, lensometry, retinoscopy, and color vision testing.
- Provide nonsurgical interventions, including corrective lenses, patches, drops, fusion exercises, or stereograms, to treat conditions such as strabismus, heterophoria, and convergence insufficiency.
- Develop nonsurgical treatment plans for patients with conditions such as strabismus, nystagmus, and other visual disorders.
- Interpret clinical or diagnostic test results.
- Develop or use special test and communication techniques to facilitate diagnosis and treatment of children or patients with disabilities.
- Provide training related to clinical methods or orthoptics to students, resident physicians, or other health professionals.
- Refer patients to ophthalmic surgeons or other physicians.
- Prepare diagnostic or treatment reports for other medical practitioners or therapists.
- Collaborate with ophthalmologists, optometrists, or other specialists in the diagnosis, treatment, or management of conditions such as glaucoma, cataracts, and retinal diseases.
- Perform vision screening of children in schools or community health centers.
- Present or publish scientific papers.
- Participate in clinical research projects.
- Assist ophthalmologists in diagnostic ophthalmic procedures, such as ultrasonography, fundus photography, and tonometry.
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Attività lavorative
Contesto lavorativo
Face-to-Face Discussions with Individuals and Within Teams
How frequently does your job require face-to-face discussions with individuals and within teams?
100%
Contact With Others
How much does this job require the worker to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise) in order to perform it?
96%
Indoors, Environmentally Controlled
How often does this job require working indoors in an environmentally controlled environment (like a warehouse with air conditioning)?
96%
Work With or Contribute to a Work Group or Team
How important is it to work with or contribute to a work group or team in this job?
91%
How frequently does your job require you to use E-mail?
89%
Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job?
89%
Telephone Conversations
How often do you have telephone conversations in this job?
89%
Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls
How much does this job require using your hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls?
85%
Physical Proximity
To what extent does this job require the worker to perform job tasks physically close to other people?
82%
Exposed to Disease or Infections
How often does this job require exposure to disease/infections?
81%
Deal With External Customers or the Public in General
How important is it to deal with external customers (as in retail sales) or the public in general (as in police work) in this job?
80%
Freedom to Make Decisions
How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer?
79%
Frequency of Decision Making
How often is the worker required to make decisions that affect other people, the financial resources, and/or the image and reputation of the organization?
76%
Determine Tasks, Priorities and Goals
How much freedom does the worker have in determining the tasks, priorities, or goals of the job?
75%
Written Letters and Memos
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73%
Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results
What results do your decisions usually have on other people or the image or reputation or financial resources of your employer?
69%
Coordinate or Lead Others in Accomplishing Work Activities
How important is it to coordinate or lead others (not as a supervisor or team leader) in accomplishing work activities in this job?
68%
Spend Time Sitting
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64%
Time Pressure
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64%
Dealing With Unpleasant, Angry, or Discourteous People
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62%
Importance of Repeating Same Tasks
How important are continuous, repetitive, physical activities (like key entry) or mental activities (like checking entries in a ledger) to performing this job?
59%
Duration of Typical Work Week
Number of hours typically worked in one week.
56%
Exposed to Sounds, Noise Levels that are Distracting or Uncomfortable
How often does this job require working exposed to sounds and noise levels that are distracting or uncomfortable?
56%
Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions
How much does this job require making repetitive motions?
55%
Work Outcomes and Results of Other Workers
How responsible is the worker for work outcomes and results of other workers?
51%
Health and Safety of Other Workers
How much responsibility is there for the health and safety of others in this job?
48%
Level of Competition
To what extent does this job require the worker to compete or to be aware of competitive pressures?
45%
Consequence of Error
How serious would the result usually be if the worker made a mistake that was not easily correctable?
43%
Conflict Situations
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42%
Spend Time Standing
How much does this job require standing?
37%
Spend Time Bending or Twisting Your Body
How much does this job require bending or twisting your body?
36%
Spend Time Walking or Running
How much does this job require walking or running?
33%
Public Speaking
How frequently does your job require public speaking (one speaker with an audience)?
27%
Spend Time Kneeling, Crouching, Stooping, or Crawling
How much does this job require kneeling, crouching, stooping or crawling?
22%
Dealing with Violent or Physically Aggressive People
How frequently does this job require the worker to deal with physical aggression of violent individuals?
21%
Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets
How often does this job require wearing common protective or safety equipment such as safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hearing protection, hard hats or life-jackets?
20%
Exposed to Extremely Bright or Inadequate Lighting Conditions
How often does this job require working in extremely bright or inadequate lighting conditions?
16%
Exposed to Contaminants
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14%
Degree of Automation
How automated is the job?
12%
Exposed to Cramped Work Space, Awkward Positions
How often does this job require working in cramped work spaces that requires getting into awkward positions?
11%
Exposed to Minor Burns, Cuts, Bites, or Stings
How often does this job require exposure to minor burns, cuts, bites, or stings?
11%
Wear Specialized Protective or Safety Equipment such as Breathing Apparatus, Safety Harness, Full Protection Suits, or Radiation Protection
How often does this job require wearing specialized protective or safety equipment such as breathing apparatus, safety harness, full protection suits, or radiation protection?
5%
In an Enclosed Vehicle or Operate Enclosed Equipment
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4%
In an Open Vehicle or Operating Equipment
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4%
Spend Time Keeping or Regaining Balance
How much does this job require keeping or regaining your balance?
4%
Work Schedules
How regular are the work schedules for this job?
4%
Exposed to Hazardous Conditions
How often does this job require exposure to hazardous conditions?
3%
Exposed to Very Hot or Cold Temperatures
How often does this job require working in very hot (above 90 F degrees) or very cold (below 32 F degrees) temperatures?
3%
Pace Determined by Speed of Equipment
How important is it to this job that the pace is determined by the speed of equipment or machinery? (This does not refer to keeping busy at all times on this job.)
3%
Exposed to Hazardous Equipment
How often does this job require exposure to hazardous equipment?
2%
Indoors, Not Environmentally Controlled
How often does this job require working in an environment that is not environmentally controlled (like a warehouse without air conditioning)?
1%
Spend Time Climbing Ladders, Scaffolds, or Poles
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1%
Exposed to High Places
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0%
Exposed to Radiation
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0%
Exposed to Whole Body Vibration
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0%
Outdoors, Exposed to All Weather Conditions
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0%
Outdoors, Under Cover
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0%
Istruzione
Post-baccalaureate certificate
Bachelor's degree
Professional degree
Interessi
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