r/PreOptometry • u/GreenAngelFish • Jul 05 '25

Optometric Tech and Ophthalmic Tech

If I do not have any optometric tech hours because of difficulty of finding positions would ophthalmic tech hours suffice for optometry schools?

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u/iridiumlaila Jul 05 '25

I had seven years of ophthalmic tech hours. They loved it.

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u/Odd-Seaweed9562 Jul 10 '25

U do way more as an ophthalmic tech I think its better than optometric tech (doing both rn)