For optometry students and Optometrist, the pros of joining the BOA are plentiful, the BOA offers outstanding career and business resources for students and Optometry professionals as an optometrist to advance their careers, stay informed, volunteer their talents, share knowledge, and build professional skills.
As a student, you can join all activities of BOA. Now, because if you’re a BOA member, be sure to invite your colleagues or fellow students to join. Still, wondering what the BOA can do for you during your time in optometry school and after graduation?
The BOA’s most popular benefits for students and optometrists include job-seeking assistance and membership certificate and Membership ID card.
Free to all members seeking a job, the website of BOA is the premier professional development resource for optometry. You’ll find job opportunities, information on salary negotiation, career coaching services, and résumé and cover letter assistance. As members, students and recent grads also receive a set of recognizing their BOA membership.
BOA Jobs Finder is your gateway to professional and practice success and benefits the optometric community with real innovation to help Optometrists grow in a changing healthcare landscape. Health information technologies, patient engagement solutions, and best-in-class business and career services are available to BOA members. Visit BOA Jobs Finder to learn more and to complete your profile to receive customized benefits and services.
Members can easily stay informed, connect with colleagues, and discuss relevant and timely topics through several publications, including the BOA newsletter is an informative website designed by optometry students for optometry students.
Lastly, BOA members are encouraged to share their clinical interests in one or all three unique BOA special interest communities: contact lens and cornea section, vision Rehabilitation, and sports vision.
Here is how the BOA is making a difference
Bringing the global voice of optometry to the highest levels of influence and decision making.
Advocating for the recognition and development of optometry across the INDIA.
Increasing public awareness and celebrating the role of optometry and optometrists.
Developing strategic partnerships to support optometry at national and international levels.
Responding to our members and supporting their initiatives.
Assisting in optometry education standards and generating evidence.
Providing networking platforms through social media, meetings, and committee participation.
Sharing information and communicating effectively with members, the optometric community, and our partners.
You can make a difference. Join the BOA, and help shape the future of eye care around the world and in India. Improve the provision of eye and vision care for India’s population.
Gain access to online continuing education.
Stay up to date on issues that matter to you and the profession.
Apply for funding from the BOA Fellowship, and CMEs Program for innovative global and national optometric initiatives to improve vision and eye care.
Ensure that optometry is an autonomous profession as per WCO. WHO and ILO guidelines.
BOA Member Certificate Your participation in the BOA and other organizations shows your commitment to optometry, elevating you as a professional. After joining the BOA, you will be sent an exclusive BOA member certificate to print and display in your office for viewing by patients, colleagues, and your local community.
As a BOA member, you will also receive-
Your name listed as a member on the BOA website.
BOA logo for your use on websites, stationery, electronic media, and local advertising.
Nationally and worldwide networking opportunities with other optometric professionals through meetings and social media.
The opportunity to participate in BOA member committees.
