Majority of optometrists won’t need therapeutics to keep registration

The OBA had planned making it mandatory for all optometrists to have become therapeutically certified by 2029 in order to maintain registration after then, but that is not to be the case. In any case, it could have meant about 50 per cent of presently-registered optometrists losing their registration by 2029.
However, all new-graduate optometrists from Australia and New Zealand’s schools of optometry applying for registration for the first time from 2014 onwards will have to be therapeutically endorsed to gain their registration. They will all have completed a course that includes training in use of therapeutic drugs.