To comprehensively train optometry professionals who contribute to the improvement of the quality of life of the population, promoting and preserving visual and ocular health, through a competency-based model, focused on learning, flexibility and innovation, allowing inter and intra-institutional mobility, favoring the transition between levels and educational modalities.

• Possesses the capacity for analysis and synthesis, as the axis for autonomous learning.
• They are creative, innovative, with communication skills, and have a facility for personal relationships and teamwork.
• Possesses humanistic and empathic sensitivity to their environment, commitment, and ethics in their performance.
• Uses new communication and computer technologies.
• Develops their intellectual, communication, socio-affective and productive skills.
• Develops logical processes that allow him/her to analyze and explain diverse natural and social phenomena of the surrounding environment, from different dimensions and theoretical perspectives.
• Applies in their daily life the knowledge of different disciplines and sciences in the resolution of problems, based on principles, laws, and concepts.
• Interprets reflectively and critically the scientific work, and its current and future importance; and becomes aware of the social, economic, and environmental impact of technological development.
• Assumes a proactive attitude towards the problems that affect him/her, paying attention to the most significant ones in his/her environment.
• Builds an ethical personality that considers man as a species, as an individual, and as part of a society, through the development and strengthening of values.
• Acquires the elements that allow them to consolidate their personality and face the risks of their age.
• Use different linguistic codes according to the context of communication and its intention, as well as correctly interpret the messages received and achieve their adequate structuring based on principles of order, orderings, causality, and generality.
• Use the new information and communication technologies, taking advantage of their potential to develop knowledge that promotes their active and constructive participation in society.
• Acquires knowledge about specific principles of the various disciplines, which will facilitate their personal decision to choose adequately their higher studies.
• Obtains the elements that allow him to value and perform competently, both productive work, as well as services that benefit society.
• Has the elements that make possible the creation or appreciation for artistic manifestations, to value them as cultural expressions.
• Possesses motor skills and abilities that allow them to maintain a healthy body.
• Possesses capacity for analysis and synthesis.
• Is creative, and innovative, with communication skills, with ease for personal relationships and teamwork.
• Possesses humanistic and empathic sensitivity to his environment, commitment, and ethics in his performance.
• Uses new communication and computer technologies.
• Develops their intellectual, communication, socio-affective and productive skills.
• Develop logical processes that allow them to analyze and explain diverse natural and social phenomena of the surrounding environment, from different dimensions and theoretical perspectives. *Apply in their lives the knowledge of different disciplines and sciences in problem solving, based on principles, laws, and concepts.
• Reflects critically on scientific work, it is current and future importance, becoming aware of the social, economic, and environmental impact of technological development.
• Assumes a proactive attitude towards the problems that affect him/her, attending to the most significant ones in his/her environment.
• Builds an ethical personality that considers man as a species, as an individual, and as part of a society, through the development and strengthening of values.
• Acquires the elements that allow them to consolidate their personality and face the risks of their age.
• Uses different linguistic codes according to the context of communication and its intention, as well as to correctly interpret the messages received and achieve their adequate structuring based on principles of order, causality, and generality.
• Uses new information and communication technologies, taking advantage of their potential to develop knowledge that promotes their active and constructive participation in society.
• Uses his knowledge of specific principles of the various disciplines to facilitate his personal decision to make an adequate choice of his higher studies.
• Obtains the elements that allow him to value, perform competently, both productive work, and services that benefit society.
• Has elements that make possible the creation or appreciation of artistic manifestations to value them as cultural expressions.
• Possesses motor skills and abilities that allow them to maintain a healthy body.

KNOW-HOW

• Express clear, understandable, and innovative ideas to implement care.
• Ability to interact with other students, teachers and members of a health team.
• Ability to use, and handle didactic material appropriately.
• Willingness to implement new ways of learning.
• Observant and creative.

KNOW HOW TO BE AND LIVE TOGETHER

• Honest.
• Humanist.
• Participative.
• Tolerant.
• Commitment.
• Respectful.
• Responsible.

The IPN graduate in Optometry is competent in the solution of visual and ocular problems and requirements of the population through evaluation, planning, research, prevention, and intervention, applying optometric knowledge and procedures in a transdisciplinary manner in the areas recommended by national and international organizations; with a sense of ethics and social commitment, manifesting a proactive attitude towards globalizing trends of today.

They will be health professionals who promote, examine, diagnose and implement treatment plans for the attention of alterations of the visual system, eye, and associated structures, as well as detect and monitor systemic diseases of national interest in an inter and multidisciplinary manner and develop research, management, and marketing functions that respond to the demands of society and the productive sector.

KNOWLEDGE

• Mastery of basic sciences for their clinical and epidemiological application, in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of visual health problems of the population.
• Mastery of clinical sciences for the prevention, diagnoses, treatment, and follow-up of visual health problems of the population.
• Mastery of biomedical sciences that will allow him/her to diagnose the visual health of the Mexican population.
• Mastery of research and public health, which will allow him/her to perform health diagnosis, as well as to design, apply and evaluate population health programs.
• Application of knowledge of clinical optometry for the diagnosis and treatment of refractive alterations. Integration of basic knowledge of pediatrics that will allow him/her to diagnose and treat children.
• Integration of basic knowledge of geriatrics that will allow him/her to perform diagnosis and treatment in older adults.
• Integration of knowledge of pharmacology and ocular therapeutics for diagnosis and therapeutic treatment.
• Mastery of a second language to strengthen their training and professional performance.
• Management of elements of the area of social and humanistic sciences, as an essential factor for their professional practice. *Mastery of administration that allows them to develop functions that support their training and professional practice.
• Handling of communication technologies as essential factors for the development of their professional practice.

KNOW-HOW

• Analyze and integrate the knowledge of biomedical sciences to determine the diagnosis of ocular diseases.
• Analyze the information of refractive tests to issue the diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of ametropias.
• Plan appropriate strategies for administration, marketing, and legal framework in professional development.
• Develop interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary teamwork.
• Explain the visual problems that affect the Mexican population.
• Reflect on the visual problems that afflict the Mexican population.
• Interpret the data resulting from the clinical history of the visual problems of the population.
• Diagnose the visual alterations of the Mexican population.
• Establish a treatment plan to treat binocular vision disorders.
• Conduct research and epidemiological studies for the solution of visual health problems of the population.
• To design visual health campaigns for the attention of the visual health of the Mexican population.
• To promote transdiscipline.
• Handling of optometric equipment.
• Handling of computer equipment.
• Application and registration of special test results.
• Adapt all types of optical aids.
• Application and recording of optometric clinical procedures.

KNOW HOW TO BE AND LIVE TOGETHER

• Has a formation based on ethical and bioethical principles and values of responsibility, respect, tolerance, honesty, justice, equity and cooperation that will make them open to change, responsive to the needs of society and the sustainable development of the nation.
• Assumes an attitude of leadership, is proactive, proactive and committed to the health of the population.
• Assumes an attitude of service and adaptation to new situations with professionalism.
• Assumes an entrepreneurial attitude in situations of service to the community.

The requirements to become a student at the Institute are:

1. To comply with the academic background and other requirements indicated in the respective call for applications.
2. To take the admission exam for the higher level.
3. To be selected for admission.

The field of action of the graduate in optometry is developed in urban and rural environments through public or private health institutions, as well as in private companies or in the Freedom to exercise a profession.

Check the list of subjects, credits and total hours of the program in:

• CICS Unidad Santo Tomás
• CICS Unidad Milpa Alta