Optometry is a health profession that requires a university degree, based on scientific, technical and humanistic training. Its activity includes actions for the prevention and correction of diseases of the eye and the visual system through examination, diagnosis, treatment and management that lead to achieving visual efficiency and eye health, as well as the recognition and diagnosis of systemic manifestations that they are related to the eye and that allow preserving and improving the quality of life of the individual and the community.

The Virtual University Clinic in Teleoptometry was born as an innovative proposal that integrates the academic training of practical simulation through the use of interactive virtual tools from the open online classroom of the ALCON Institute with remote clinical practice in virtual learning clinics for training. and services of the general and specialized clinical areas of Optometry.