Introduction:

professional acting-mode is a complex and dynamic didactic category that requires its improvement according to the social mission and working context of each professional.

Objective:

to base the proposal of preserving vision as a way of professional acting-mode in the specialty of Ophthalmology.

Methods:

the dialectic method was used as a guide. From the theoretical level, the historical-logical, modeling and systemic-structural methods were applied, including as procedures the analysis-synthesis and the induction-deduction; along with the documentary revision from the empirical level.

Results:

preserving vision was interpreted as a generalized activity of the profession that contains a sequence of more general actions (promoting visual health, preventing visual alterations, diagnosing alterations in the visual health process, treating alterations in the visual health process and rehabilitation (visually); which is closely related to other categories such as: object of the profession (visual health as a process), object of work (visual system/vision), knowledge, professional skills and professional acting-mode.

Conclusions:

it is based on “preserving the vision” as a unique and practical way of professional acting-mode which favors a high level of professional performance and aims at professional and human development.

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