Nagar school of Optometry is a part of Shri C.H. Nagari Municipal Eye Hospital, a tertiary eye care hospital in Ahmedabad. It’s an eight storey hospital with 100 bed capacity having OPD, full equipped OTs and advanced equipments of various specialties like retina, cornea, glaucoma, squint, oculoplasty LASIK and cataract. We have separate dedicated wings for clinical optometry as well as space for optometry specialties like contact lenses, low vision aids, orthoptics, paediatric clinic, vision therapy and occupational optometry clinic managed by Optometrists.
In terms of clinical exposure, all students will have an exposure with all optometry specialties and also various diagnostic procedures like biometry, visual field analysis, corneal topography, OCT, fundus photography, aberrometry, etc. under supervision of senior optometrists and ophthalmologists.
In terms of community eye health exposure, students are posted at Sanjeevani Health and Relief committee which cadre for total check-up in remote villages of Gujarat. During internship period, all intern students have compulsory postings at clinical municipal hospitals like Nagari Eye hospital and Shardaben hospital as well as various renowned optical outlets for six months respectively.