Clinical Care Providers
Set your sights on a more dynamic approach to eye care. Navy Optometry charts a progressive course of optical health and safety.
Optometry
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The gift of sight is especially critical for Sailors, Marines and aviators as they defend our country. That’s why Navy Optometrists are vital in maintaining our servicemembers’ effectiveness, whether guiding an F-18 to land on a carrier or tracking enemy vessels from hundreds of miles away.
Job Description
As a Navy Optometrist, you’ll provide Sailors and Marines the sight to fight. Serve the routine and acute eye-care needs of military personnel. From refractive services like spectacles, contact lenses and refractive surgery. To ocular pathology treatment and surgical co-management.
Or, focus on a subspecialty, like low vision, TBI rehab, specialty contact lenses and more. You could even be involved with Aerospace, Surface or Undersea medicine.
Practice full-scope optometry at hospitals across the globe with patients as diverse as children, servicemembers or retirees. Regardless, there are unparalleled leadership and executive medicine opportunities. Research positions. Teaching positions. Humanitarian opportunities. And a continual focus on professional development.
Educational/Financial Benefits
Wherever you are in your professional career, the Navy can help ease your financial burdens and advance your career with generous scholarships, financial assistance and continuing education programs
Graduate Students
Get Money for Graduate School
Covering the cost of graduate school can be challenging. Tuition. Books and supplies. Living expenses. But there is an easier way.
Navy Health Professions Scholarship Program (HPSP) — Receive 100% tuition assistance while completing an eligible optometry education program plus a monthly stipend of $1,907 to help cover living expenses for up to 48 months.
Offers have many variables. To get details and find out which offer would benefit you most, request that a Navy Officer Recruiter contact you.
Practicing Professionals
Get Help Repaying Educational Loans
There’s an alternative to spending years paying down the cost of your graduate education. If you’re currently a practicing professional:
Navy Health Professions Loan Repayment Program — Receive up to $120,000 to help repay your graduate school loans by applying to receive $40,000 each year for up to three years.*
To be eligible, you must serve as an Active Duty Medical Service Corps Officer for each year you receive the loan payment.
Offers have many variables. To get details and find out which offer would benefit you most, request that a Navy Officer Recruiter contact you.
*Offer depends on specialty and service requirement.
Other Benefits
A career here offers comprehensive benefits, including a competitive salary, full medical and dental coverage, a generous retirement income and much more. Explore comprehensive benefits for the Navy Medical Service Corps.
Qualifications
Besides requirements for Active Duty employment consideration in the Navy Medical Service Corps, there are additional requirements for Navy Optometry that apply.
Specific Requirements
- Doctor of optometry degree from a college or university recognized by the Accreditation Council on Optometric Education or the American Optometric Association
- Licensed to practice optometry by one of the 50 states or the District of Columbia
- Eligible to be licensed by a state or the District of Columbia by having passed Parts I, II and III of the National Board Exam (an active state license is required upon entering Active Duty)
Preferred Requirements
- Graduate school GPA of 3.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale
- Professional experience
- Affiliation with a national professional organization
Career Outlook
Want to explore further? Check out the Health Care Opportunities area to learn more about the overall mission of Navy Health Care. Or get a specific picture of the unrivaled experiences and real people representing today’s Navy Medical Service Corps.
Questions? Get more information now. Provide brief information so that a Navy Medical Recruiter can contact you. Answer your questions. And help make the application process as seamless as possible if you choose to move forward.