Ophthalmologist

Duties and Responsibilities: Ophthalmologists are medically trained doctors with specialist skills in the eye and visual system. Their patients include people of all ages; even babies. Most want to become consultant, where they develop the technical skills of a micro surgeon with the therapeutic skills of a doctor. Some but very few ophthalmologists are also trained in general medicine. The common conditions treated are cataracts, glaucoma, and diabetes. They work in hospital eye casualty departments, outpatient clinics, and laser eye surgery clinics. Their tasks include: assessing and examining patients in order to make a diagnosis, managing busy general outpatient clinics, operating equipment such as ophthalmoscopes, and carrying out surgical procedures using an operating microscope.

Salary: $257,000

Education: Students should take:

• Four years of medical school                                                 
• One year of internship
• Three years  of residency in ophthalmology
• Special training in all aspects of eye care

Reflection: I would not like to be an ophthalmologist because I am not interested in eye surgery.