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Second Year Diploma

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The Diploma in Advanced Opticianry, Contact Lenses and Refraction Technologies

The second year of the Dispensing Optician program provides advanced training that greatly improves your career and educational options.

Highlights

  • Weekly 3-day timetable fits working schedules
  • Online or on-campus learning options
  • Greater demand for dual-licensed graduates
  • Higher salaries for dual-licensed graduates
  • Improved degree options

Program content

This program offers some of Canada’s most advanced training in the field:

  • Automated sight testing
  • Refraction
  • Wave-front analysis
  • Automated corneal topography
  • Tonometry
  • Retail marketing and boutique dispensing

Completing your degree

As a diploma graduate, you can transfer most of your credits towards a Bachelor of Health Science at Thompson Rivers University (though distance learning).

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