User talk:Robmossgb

Ophthalmic medical practitioner
Welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed that you wrote that ophthalmic medical practitioners are qualified in ophthalmology but also that they are essentially trainee ophthalmologists. Could you expand or clarify on that a bit? Thanks! -AED 22:10, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

I think someone else must have written that. As far as I am aware, in the UK, an ophthalmic medical practitioner is a medical practitioner who chooses to take on work that would normally be fulfilled by an optometrist. They can indeed be trainee ophthalmologists although this is not necessarily the case.