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Optometry Schools in Canada

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The School of Optometry is one of the professional schools at the University of Waterloo. It is housed in the Faculty of Science. It is the larger of the two optometry schools in Canada, and the only facility for English-language optometry instruction in the country. (The Université de Montréal has a French-language optometry program.

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Is there a shortage of optometrists in Canada?

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Miller wrote:

Is there a shortage of optometrists in Canada?

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Miller wrote:

Optometry Schools in Canada

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The School of Optometry is one of the professional schools at the University of Waterloo. It is housed in the Faculty of Science. It is the larger of the two optometry schools in Canada, and the only facility for English-language optometry instruction in the country. (The Université de Montréal has a French-language optometry program.

Wikipedia

Is there a shortage of optometrists in Canada?

Point of Information, Miller: You didn't say School of Optometry, you said College of Optometry, and College means something different here. Each province has a College of Physicians and Surgeons which oversees the registration and behaviour of doctors. There is also a Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada which is a national body which oversees the qualifications of training centres and processes the examinations of training doctors.

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Miller wrote:
Optometry Schools in Canada

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The School of Optometry is one of the professional schools at the University of Waterloo. It is housed in the Faculty of Science. It is the larger of the two optometry schools in Canada, and the only facility for English-language optometry instruction in the country. (The Université de Montréal has a French-language optometry program.

Wikipedia

Is there a shortage of optometrists in Canada?

Point of Information, Miller: You didn't say School of Optometry, you said College of Optometry, and College means something different here. Each province has a College of Physicians and Surgeons which oversees the registration and behaviour of doctors. There is also a Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada which is a national body which oversees the qualifications of training centres and processes the examinations of training doctors.

The programs in Optometry in the USA are offered in institutions that refer to themselves as either a School of Optometry ( Doctorate at Pacfic U )
or as a College of Optometry ( Penn, NE, SUNY for example ).
In the USA, it makes no difference as both Schools and Colleges of Optometry offer the Doctorate in this medical field.

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Why are there only 2 institutions for the study of optometry in Canada?

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Miller wrote:

Why are there only 2 institutions for the study of optometry in Canada?

Canada has a population of 33,390,141 and two schools of optometry. The United States have a population of 301,139,947 and 17 schools of optometry.

That amounts to one school per 16,695,071 in Canada and one school per 17,714,115 in the United States. So, more schools per person in Canada.

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This proves again that it isn't easy to compare some things in a foreign country and raising the same bar as at home

Optometry e.g. in primarily a trade requiring an apprenticeship (see vocational education at wikipedia , but taught at several universities of applied sciences, too. (Five universities plus five academies here in Germany.)

However, you usually go there only after you've seen an ophthalmologists.

Besides that, eye examinations and refractions are done free here at any optometrist's - either to be seen as a promotional service or after-sales service.

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Old Europe - surely you are too intelligent to compare present day America to Dickens' England?

Please correct me if I am mistaken, but isn't being overweight one of the primary health problems in the United States?

I normally do not like to repeat myself in threads, but I will here. No matter how much money Washington gives to the "poor", it will never be enough. There is no amount of money to satisfy the poor, the professional victims, and their professional politician advocates. Just look at the current crop of Democratic Presidential candidates. Its hard to keep track of all of their promises:

- A $5000 bond to each child born
- Free health care to everyone
- Free preschool for all children
- Free child care for everyone
- Matching 401k savings for everyone

And even if the Government was somehow able to afford these give aways, even this wouldn't be enough.

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Same here, Walter. I just had an eye exam at an optometrist and they charged me nothing, hoping I would buy a pair of glasses.

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