Martin Smith tells Andrew McCarthy-McClean about practice ownership, collecting qualifications and his first steps into optometric research
Smith started to think about optometry as a career during his teenage years. He’d been a spectacles wearer from the age of nine and had an interest in science subjects at school.
He initially applied to study medicine at university and did work experience in a hospital but found the environment was not for him as it was more chaotic than anticipated.
‘I quite like being in a room where I know all the kit works and it’s all in place. So, I changed my line and applied to optometry, but of course I missed the deadline by then,’ he explains.
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