From specialist biomedical scientist to orthoptist
24 of the 63 essential skills of a orthoptist are already essential for a specialist biomedical scientist — about 38% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 24
- skills carry over
- 39
- would be new
- 38%
- of the target job covered
- 63
- essential skills of a orthoptist
What a orthoptist does
Orthoptists diagnose and treat anomalies of binocular vision. They examine, assess and treat vision impairments, squint, amblyopia and eye motility disorders. Orthoptists apply these methods in particular in the fields of paediatrics, neurology, neuro-ophthalmology, ophthalmology, orthoptics, optometry, pleoptics and strabology assessing functional diseases of the eye for improving functional disorders of the visual system. They also provide counselling, preventive measures and training activities and may refract and prescribe glasses, such as prism corrective glasses.
What carries over
24 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- accept own accountability
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply organisational techniques
- comply with legislation related to health care
- contribute to continuity of health care
- deal with emergency care situations
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- educate on the prevention of illness
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- hygiene in a health care setting
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- manage healthcare users' data
- medical informatics
- promote inclusion
- provide health education
- provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
- respond to changing situations in health care
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
What would be new
39 skillsEssential for a orthoptist and not for a specialist biomedical scientist. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- advise patients on vision improvement conditions
- anaesthetics
- carry out orthoptic treatments
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- conduct specialised orthoptic tests
- contact lens fitting techniques
- determine eye disease progression
- diagnose problems of the visual system
- first aid
- follow clinical guidelines
- health care legislation
- health care occupation-specific ethics
- human anatomy
- human physiology
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- medical terminology
- neuro-ophthalmology
- neurology
- neurophysiology
- ophthalmological examination methods
- optics
- orthoptics
- paediatric psychology
- paediatrics
- pathology
- perform vision rehabilitation
- pharmacology
- professional documentation in health care
- promote ocular health
- provide therapy of the visual system
- psychology
- receive patient referrals with eye conditions
- record healthcare users' progress related to treatment
- supervise orthoptic treatments
- test visual acuity
- treatment of strabismus
- types of strabismus
- undertake healthcare examination
Other moves from specialist biomedical scientist
2 roles- biomedical scientist35 skills in common
- physiotherapist24 skills in common
← specialist biomedical scientistorthoptist →The other way round
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