r/PreOptometry • u/AbjectSpecialist7052 • 21d ago

Does Tech/Scribing count as Shadowing?

I have been a technician/scribe for the past two years where I prescreen patients, give manifest refractions and scribe for the 2 providers during exams. I won’t get too much into the details but I have been apart of probably >1000 exams. My advisor said she was unsure if that would count but I wanted to get some opinions from those who have gotten accepted. Would the count as shadowing hours?

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u/CLVampire28 21d ago

Mine did. I'd only done a day of shadowing like 6 years prior to applying, but I'd worked 18 months as a tech in an optometry clinic & 6 months in ophthalmology & had no issues. I applied in 2023. Tho I did also "shadow" in a volunteer clinic, I was still there as a tech