Ophthalmology Physician Jobs

Ophthalmology deals with the structure, function, diagnosis, and treatment of the eye and the visual system. This includes problems affecting the eye and its component structures, the eyelids, the orbit, and the visual pathways.

Ophthalmologists are medically trained to provide patients with total eye care using medical, surgical, and rehabilitative services. Physicians in this specialty must be qualified and knowledgeable in about every aspect of the human eye. In so doing, an ophthalmologist prescribes vision services, including glasses and contact lenses.

Specific surgical procedures ophthalmologists perform are ones such as: laser eye surgery, cataract surgery, glaucoma surgery, canaloplasty, refractive surgery, corneal surgery, vitreo-retinal surgery, eyelid surgery, and eye muscle surgery. Ophthalmology is a smaller specialty resulting in a little number of ophthalmologists. These surgeries address diseases Aging in the population and the field of work results in a steady demand for physicians in this specialty.

Median Salary: $291,000 per year

Projected Growth: 30% from 2014-2024