Optical Sciences - Contact Lenses

If you’re already a licensed and practicing optician, the additional license to dispense contact lenses can help you offer increased value to employees and clients as well as increase your opportunities in the optical industry.

The ability to dispense contact lenses is a specialized skill, which employers recognize as a great asset. This one-year, independent study program is an advanced practice intended for licensed opticians that will require a qualified preceptor in your workplace to guide and directly supervise your clinical training. This training spans 500 hours over two clinical practicum courses.