Video: What Is Ophthalmology?

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Ophthalmology is the study and treatment of diseases in the eye, usually through surgical methods to correct cataracts, vision impairments or abnormal growths. Find out what an ophthalmologist does with information from a practicing optometrist in this free video on eye health.

Video Transcript

I'm Doctor Jim Kirkconnell, Bellevue Eye Care Center in Nashville, Tennessee. I'm here to give you the definition of the term ophthalmologist. An ophthalmologist is a physician who's gone through four years of medical school, usually one or two years of general residency, and then has three years of education in the disease and surgery of the eye, and then goes on to specialize in the disease and surgery of the eye as far as routine eye care, which is making you see better in glasses and contact lenses. But in reality, what an ophthalmologist really like to do is to do operations for things such as cataract surgery. Lasik, PRK. And then there's specialties within opthalmology, which can be for the treatment of retinal diseases. It can be a specialist in cornea. But in general, an ophthalmologist is someone who treats eye disease and does surgery of the eye.

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What Is Ophthalmology?

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