Editing Optometry (section)

===Oceania===
====Australia====
Australia currently has six recognized courses in optometry, and one course seeking to obtain accreditation with the Optometry council of Australia and New Zealand:
* Bachelor of Vision Science and Master of Optometry (BVisSci MOptom), [[Deakin University]]
* Bachelor of Medical Science (Vision Science) and Master of Optometry, [[Flinders University]]
* Bachelor of Vision Science and Master of Clinical Optometry (BVisSc MClinOptom), [[University of New South Wales]]
* Bachelor of Vision Science and Master of Optometry, [[Queensland University of Technology]]
* Bachelor of Vision Science and Master of Optometry, [[University of Canberra]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Course - University of Canberra |url=https://www.canberra.edu.au/coursesandunits/course?course_cd=372JA&version_number=1 |access-date=2018-03-11 |website=www.canberra.edu.au |language=en}}</ref>
* Doctor of Optometry, [[Melbourne University]] ([[post-graduate]])
* Doctor of Optometry, [[University of Western Australia]] (post-graduate)<ref>{{Cite web |last=fs@uwa.edu.au |title=Doctor of Optometry |url=https://www.uwa.edu.au/study/Courses/Doctor-of-Optometry |access-date=2023-05-15 |website=UWA |language=en}}</ref>

To support these courses the [[Australian College of Optometry]] provides clinical placements to undergraduate students from Australian Universities and abroad.

in 2016, almost 5000 optometrists in general practice were licensed with their regulatory body, the [http://www.optometryboard.gov.au/ Optometry Board of Australia].  Of these, approximately 2300 were registered with the scheduled medicines endorsement, which enables them to prescribe some medicines for the treatment of conditions of the eye.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.optometryboard.gov.au/About/Statistics.aspx|title=Optometry Board of Australia - Statistics}}</ref> The [[Optometrists Association Australia|Optometrists Association of Australia]] works to protect the interests of optometrists in Australia.

====New Zealand====
New Zealand currently has one recognised course in optometry:
* Bachelor of Optometry (BOptom), [[The University of Auckland]]

In July 2014, the Medicines Amendment Act 2013 and Misuse of Drugs Amendment Regulations 2014 came into effect.  Among other things, the changes to the Act name optometrists as authorised prescribers. This change enables optometrists with a therapeutic pharmaceutical agent (TPA) endorsement to prescribe all medicines appropriate to their scope of practice, rather than limiting them to a list of medicines specified in the regulation; this recognises the safe and appropriate prescribing practice of optometrists over the previous nine years.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.odob.health.nz/cms_display.php?sn=74&pg=1564|title=GLA|access-date=28 April 2017}}</ref>