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Fedric:
Pls everyone, I choose optometry as a course, please I wanna know how lucrative the course is,? and chance of getting a job ? Your advice is highly needed.

Why not read medicine. Don't waste your years there after reading it and you become fustrated when you are shown your portfolio at work. Please do well to follow the news on the goings on in the Nigeria health sector. An optpmetrist according to standard international practice is one who studies on how to refract lenses (glasses) while an opthalmologist who is a specialist doctor in the eye (gotton after first becoming a medical doctor and spending futher years training on the eye) is far more superior in the sense that they operate on the eye, prescibe eye drugs and refract lenses. They boss the optometrist in eye hospitals. So think wisely. Actually optometry is diploma course in the UK but na naija arrangement made it a degree course. So I would advise you choose medicine and specialise in the eye if you like eye matters. THANKS

Sctests:
Igwebuike Charles
Chairman
Assoc. of Medical Laboratory Scientistsof Nigeria Imo State
Phone No.: 08033826056, 08095450675.

Please can you talk about the histroy of the profession medical laboratory science and secondly what is obtainable in other developed climes of the world.