These are the ATS keywords, credentials, and software terms that recur across current optometrist job descriptions — organized so you can scan for what your resume is missing. Placement matters as much as presence: an ATS keyword buried in a skills list ranks lower than the same term used in context inside an experience bullet.

Title variants

  • Optometrist
  • OD
  • Doctor of Optometry
  • Optometric Physician
  • Clinical Optometrist
  • Medical Optometrist
  • Therapeutic Optometrist
  • Low Vision Optometrist
  • Paediatric Optometrist
  • Sports Vision Optometrist

Credentials

  • OD
  • FAAO
  • FCOVD
  • ABO Diplomate
  • NBEO
  • TMOD
  • ACOE
  • MCOptom
  • GOC
  • IP (UK)
  • CLP
  • FCOptom

Instrumentation

  • OCT
  • Zeiss Cirrus
  • Heidelberg Spectralis
  • Topcon Maestro
  • widefield imaging
  • Optos
  • fundus photography
  • Humphrey Visual Field
  • slit lamp
  • Haag-Streit
  • gonioscopy
  • pachymetry
  • corneal topography
  • Pentacam
  • iTrace
  • Keratograph
  • autorefractor
  • specular microscopy
  • biometry
  • IOLMaster

Conditions

  • glaucoma
  • diabetic retinopathy
  • AMD
  • age-related macular degeneration
  • dry eye disease
  • anterior uveitis
  • keratoconus
  • convergence insufficiency
  • amblyopia
  • strabismus
  • myopia
  • myopia progression

Modalities

  • myopia management
  • MiSight
  • orthokeratology
  • ortho-K
  • CRT
  • low-dose atropine
  • DIMS
  • MiYOSMART
  • scleral lens fitting
  • PROSE
  • RGP
  • contact lens
  • vision therapy
  • low vision rehabilitation
  • anti-VEGF co-management
  • SLT co-management

Medications

  • prostaglandins
  • latanoprost
  • timolol
  • dorzolamide
  • brimonidine
  • netarsudil
  • prednisolone
  • difluprednate
  • Xiidra
  • Restasis
  • olopatadine
  • tobramycin
  • azithromycin

Long-tail phrases

  • optometrist resume
  • OD resume
  • optometrist cv
  • optometrist resume examples
  • optometrist resume 2026
  • how to write an optometrist resume
  • medical optometrist resume
  • myopia management optometrist
  • optometry resume

Pasting these terms into your resume verbatim without matching context can read as keyword stuffing to a human reviewer, even if it passes the ATS. The full Optometrist resume guide shows where each category belongs and how to work it into real experience bullets.