Perform ophthalmic triage, in the office or by phone, to assess severity of patients' conditions.

“Perform ophthalmic triage, in the office or by phone, to assess severity of patients' conditions.” is a core task performed by Ophthalmic Medical Technologists. Among the occupation's 31 rated tasks, workers place it 22nd by importance (#10 most important). About 95% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Diagnose health conditions or disorders. in Making Decisions and Solving Problems

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E2. Exposure with tools — software built on top of a language model (not the model alone) could cut the time by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.50. Automation potential label: T2.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Conduct tonometry or tonography tests to measure intraocular pressure. · importance 5.0
• Take and document patients' medical histories. · importance 4.9
• Take anatomical or functional ocular measurements, such as axial length measurements, of the eye or surrounding tissue. · importance 4.8
• Measure visual acuity, including near, distance, pinhole, or dynamic visual acuity, using appropriate tests. · importance 4.7
• Administer topical ophthalmic or oral medications. · importance 4.7
• Perform slit lamp biomicroscopy procedures to diagnose disorders of the eye, such as retinitis, presbyopia, cataracts, or retinal detachment. · importance 4.6
• Calculate corrections for refractive errors. · importance 4.6
• Measure and record lens power, using lensometers. · importance 4.6
• Collect ophthalmic measurements or other diagnostic information, using ultrasound equipment, such as A-scan ultrasound biometry or B-scan ultrasonography equipment. · importance 4.5
• Clean or sterilize ophthalmic or surgical instruments. · importance 4.5
• Educate patients on ophthalmic medical procedures, conditions of the eye, and appropriate use of medications. · importance 4.4
• Conduct ocular motility tests to measure function of eye muscles. · importance 4.3
• Assess refractive condition of eyes, using retinoscope. · importance 4.3
• Conduct visual field tests to measure field of vision. · importance 4.2

See all tasks on the Ophthalmic Medical Technologists page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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  title  = {Perform ophthalmic triage, in the office or by phone, to assess severity of patients' conditions.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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