Optometry is a medical discipline focused on protecting visual health, primarily integrating ophthalmology and optometry with modern medicine, physiological optics, applied optics, biomedical engineering, and other fields. It is a highly specialized and interdisciplinary field with a broad scope. It primarily addresses vision-related disorders such as myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism, anisometropia, presbyopia, strabismus, and amblyopia through non-surgical correction and treatment. Additionally, it involves visual correction for low vision, fitting of assistive devices, and diagnosis and treatment of complex optometric conditions such as keratoconus, post-traumatic vision issues, and post-refractive surgery complications.

The Department of Optometry was established in 2004 and currently consists of three doctors and three technicians. Its main services include diagnosis and treatment of various refractive errors, complex refraction and eyeglass fitting, management of amblyopia, non-surgical treatment of strabismus, fitting of soft and rigid gas permeable (RGP) contact lenses and management of related complications, fitting of specialized contact lenses such as those for keratoconus and orthokeratology (OK lenses), presbyopia and progressive lens fitting, binocular vision function examination and training, children's eye care, and preliminary screening for eye diseases in outpatient settings.

The department is equipped with internationally advanced examination devices and techniques. Each standard consultation room is outfitted with imported phoropters, projector visual acuity charts, slit lamps, ophthalmoscopes, retinoscopes, pupillometers, and trial lens sets. Additionally, the department is equipped with state-of-the-art optometric devices such as automated computer refractometers and corneal topographers.

As a professional unit integrating medical services, teaching, research, and rehabilitation, the department handles a peak daily outpatient volume of over 400 patients. It undertakes annual teaching tasks in ophthalmology and optometry for undergraduate and graduate students. Since its establishment, the department has authored one book (Practical Subjective Refraction Techniques Manual, edited by Wu Huang and published by Science Press in 2009), published five research articles, and participated in one provincial and one municipal scientific research project.

"Ensuring clear, comfortable, and lasting vision is the goal we perpetually pursue!"