Working as optometric tech or assistant count as shadowing hours?

[futureeopt]

Hi, I need more shadowing hours and was wondering if working as an optometric technician or assistant would count towards the ~40 hours minimum? I'm planning on applying to ICO and CCO.

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[Loptometriste]

Several years ago at a different school they did not accept my thousands of hours of working as a certified technician for shadowing. Shadowing is different.

Go shadow and shadow different types of practice. Vision therapy, contact lens, disease, private practice, hospital, etc.

 

[Preopt2021]

Hi, I need more shadowing hours and was wondering if working as an optometric technician or assistant would count towards the ~40 hours minimum? I'm planning on applying to ICO and CCO.

I think that will definitely help your CV, but I agree with the above, shadow a few hours in various specialties or different types of practices—I think that’ll be a plus.

 

[deleted1017515]

Hi, I need more shadowing hours and was wondering if working as an optometric technician or assistant would count towards the ~40 hours minimum? I'm planning on applying to ICO and CCO.

Hi! I'm going to ICO in the fall and I primarily only worked as a tech! They didn't really question it, I did do a couple of small informational interviews with a vision therapist, OD working corporate, and someone else working in an MD/OD clinic!