Professional improvement in contact lenses in Pinar del Río. Historical evolution

Abstract

An analysis on the process of the professionals' of the specialty Optometry training and Optics was carried out, specifically in the subspecialty contact eyeglasses, of the county Pinegrove of the River. The objective proposed in the work was directed to carry out an approach to the historical evolution of this process in the county. For he / she had it place a study that began approximately in the year 1970 of last century, until the present time. The investigation followed a mixed focus as general orientation and he / she had descriptive character. They were employees theoretical and empiric methods of qualitative and quantitative type, although they had bigger preponderance the testimony and the analysis of documents. The investigation had descriptive character and it assumed a mixed focus. The carried out historical journey allowed to check the employment of the modalities of training in the work position and training like main roads of the professionals' training, as long as the modalities of courses of they carried out outside of the county. It facilitated it to know the growing tendency in the technical and technological advances and the invigoration of the scientific potential of their professionals, what can condition other training forms, in the same county, for the graduate in Optometry and Optics that he acts in other assistance scenarios, in non-specialized consultations outside of the Ophthalmology Provincial Center. This will allow to have enough prepared personnel to cover the necessities from the population of Pinar del Río related with the attention to patient payees of contact eyeglasses that go to the consultations of Ophthalmology.