COMT Certified Jobs
COMT stands for certified ophthalmic medical technologist. The jobs sit in subspecialty and academic eye practice, where the diagnostic workload runs deep enough to keep a senior technologist in testing all day.
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Your questions about COMT certified jobs, answered
- What does the COMT take?
One of 5 routes, and the hour counts are the part people get wrong. Graduating an accredited technologist-level program with 2 or more years of college takes no work hours at all; the same program with less college adds 4,000 hours under an ophthalmologist in the 24 months before applying; and the route for people already certified counts 6,000 hours employed as a COT under an ophthalmologist, inside the 60 months before you submit. The certified orthoptist route runs the same 60-month window over 4,000 hours.
- Who has to vouch for my hours?
Your ophthalmologist, in writing, on the 2 Fast Track routes. IJCAHPO asks those applicants for verification of non-certified work experience from the ophthalmologist on official letterhead, and every applicant at every level submits the sponsoring ophthalmologist's endorsement. It's worth knowing before you leave a practice on bad terms.
- What does the tier itself signal?
IJCAHPO calls the COMT its advanced core designation, the level above COA and COT, reached either through those levels or through a technologist training program. It carries no license and no legal authority of its own, so what it's worth in a job depends on the testing that practice actually runs.