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Optometry is a subdivision of primary health care, which involves the examination of the refractive errors of eyes (myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism and presbyopia) and binocular vision impairment (obvious and non-obvious deviations of the eye, lazy eye), as well as the manufacturing of medical and telescope glasses, contact lenses and diagnosis of vision disorders.

In Iran, the field of optometry was first established in Ferdowsi University of Mashhad and Shahid Beheshti University of Tehran in 1974. After the Islamic Revolution, the continuous MSc of this field was initiated. Currently, given the needs of the community, this field is offered in four medical universities in Iran, including Shahid Beheshti, Mashhad and Zahedan universities, and the MSc courses are available in the medical universities of Shahid Beheshti, Iran and Mashhad as well.

For the first time in Iran, the Council of Medical Universities agreed to present the intermittent MSc courses of optometry in Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (MUMS) in 2003 by admitting six students in September 2004 through the national entrance exam for universities. In addition, the MSc of optometry was simultaneously established in Iran and Shahid Beheshti universities. 
The optometry field at the Ph.D. degree in Mashhad University of Medical Sciences was established in 2013 and five students were enrolled in the 
University entrance exam in October 2013