Ophthalmic Medical Technicians
Healthcare Practitioners and TechnicalAI Impact Assessment
This job is relatively safe from AI automation and may even benefit from AI tools.
Ophthalmic Medical Technicians with an AI automation risk score of 17%. Analysis includes 20 core tasks.
Safer Career Paths
Ophthalmic Medical Technologists
10% AI Risk
Human-centered work and decision ownership.
Optometrists
0% AI Risk
Human-centered work and decision ownership.
Physician Assistants
15% AI Risk
Human-centered work and decision ownership.
Key Tasks
Assist patients to select eyewear.
Call patients to inquire about their post-operative status or recovery.
Maintain ophthalmic instruments or equipment.
Take and document patients' medical histories.
Conduct tonometry or tonography tests to measure intraocular pressure.
Operate ophthalmic equipment
Take anatomical or functional ocular measurements of the eye or surrounding tissue
Measure visual acuity
Upskilling Courses
Data Sources
Analysis based on O*NET data