El desarrollo de la carrera de optometría la formación de sus egresados y la importancia de su legislación: Caso CICS-UST

Abstract

This work highlights the role of the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) the professionalization of the Optometry in Mexico with the creation of the higher technical course in optometry, as well as its further institutional development that led to the creation of the Bachelor's degree in optometry. It describes the evolution of the programs of study leading to a greater specialization. Also addresses the Mexican legislation on the Bachelor's degree in optometry and argues about the importance of generating a culture of recognition and measurement of the eye profession as necessary for the primary care of eye health in Mexico and shows the urgent need to generate an official regulation of eye practice due to the fact of the increasingly worrying improvisation of staff employed in the optics business.