To apply for registration, candidates must be trained in an institution, college, or university, chartered or recognized by the Government of Jamaica.
Optometrists trained in Jamaica are registered under Section 8-B of the Opticians Act of 1926. How are Optometrist registered to practice?
Students must complete 3 years of theory and practice, and also a 4 th year of supervised practice. The degree is in the genre of Optometry training programmes in the United Kingdom. Optometrists collaborate with other members of the eye health team including Ophthalmologists, Orthoptists, Ocularists, Ophthalmic Technicians, and Ocular Imaging Technicians. Optometrists are primary providers of the eye care team and optometry is a profession supplementary to medicine. The All-American Institute for Medical Sciences (AAIMS) is training Optometrists at its campus in Black RiverĪAIMS operates under charter from the Government of Jamaica and has been training allied and other health professionals in Black River, Jamaica for 10 years. Jamaica lags significantly in this important health matrix. In Canada, England, and the United States, the ratio is closer to 6,000 people per Optometrist and in Guyana and Trinidad, the ratio is approaching one Optometrist per 10,000 people.
With approximately one optometrist per 150,000 Jamaicans, there is a critical shortage of Optometrists in Jamaica, and this is clearly a major contributor to avoidable blindness in Jamaica. Read More "Delivering Vision 2020 in the Caribbean – CCB in collaboration with Sightsavers" It set out to build the capacity of partners and V2020Ĭommittees in Haiti, Guyana, Jamaica and St Lucia to establish and strengthen mechanismsĪnd approaches to develop, implement and monitor eye health activities and increaseĪccess to services for persons who are blind and visually impaired (specific objective). This ambitious project successfully achieved all of its objectives during the implementation Systems and services, developed the institutional capacity of non-state actors, changed policy and left a strong legacy of coordination at national and regional level which is being This action ‘Delivering V2020 in the Caribbean’ made a notable contribution to the goals andĪchievements at national and regional level of the Caribbean Strategic Framework for VisionĢ020: the Right to Sight developed in 2002, and updated in 2009.2 It strengthened eye care
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