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Practice of Optometry
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Practice Of Optometry
What is an optometrist? correct answers Primary care professionals for the eye
Examine, diagnose, treat, and manage diseases, injuries, and disorders of the visual system, the eye, and associated structures as well as identify related systemic conditions affecting the eye.
Most of the eye car...
Practice of Optometry Exam #1 || with 100% Accurate
Solutions.
What is an optometrist? correct answers Primary care professionals for the eye
Examine, diagnose, treat, and manage diseases, injuries, and disorders of the visual system, the
eye, and associated structures as well as identify related systemic conditions affecting the eye.
Most of the eye care, to most people, most of the time
What is the scope of practice?
Requirements of becoming an optometrist correct answers Completed pre-professional
undergraduate education in a college it university and four years of professional education at a
college of optometry, leading to the OD degree
Some complete an optional residency program in a specific area of practice
Some complete graduate programs to prepare for careers in education, research or administration
What is the scope of practice? correct answers Diagnose vision problems, ocular disease, and
systemic conditions with ocular manifestations
Prescribe medications, low vision rehabilitation, vision therapy, spectacle lenses, contact lenses
and perform certain surgical and laser procedures
Counsel their patients regarding surgical and non-surgical options that meet their visual needs
related to their occupations, avocations and lifestyle
Licensure: 1892, legalize the practice of optometry correct answers Charles Prentice of New
York conceives of a means to legalize the practice of optometry through the enactment of a
stature by the state of legislature
Licensure: 1898, American Association of Opticians formed correct answers American
Associate of Opticians formed, in 1919 the name changed to the American Optometric
Association (AOA)
Licensure: 1901, first state law regulating the practice of optometry correct answers Minnesota
optometrists secure the passage of the first state law regulating the practice of optometry
Licensure: 1919, Ohio state laws correct answers Ohio (#34) enacts its optometric practice law
20 years after Minnesota
, Licensure: 1924, last jurisdiction to enact an optometry law correct answers The District of
Columbia becomes the last jurisdiction to enact an optometry law
Took 23 years to get all of the US to have optometry licenses
Licensure: 1995, National Board accepted correct answers All states accept National Board of
Examiners in Optometry (NBEO) test results
Universal tests
Licensure: 2003, licensure by endorsemnet correct answers Ohio can endorse you if you move to
certain states
Licensure: 2006, new testing format correct answers NBEO proposes new testing format which
better integrates basic and clinical sciences
Licensure: 2009, Board Certification passes correct answers AOA House of Delegates passes
Board Certification process
Academic Foundation: 1914 Ohio State begins correct answers Ohio State begins a program in
applied optics within its department of physics (Dr. Charles Sheard, director)
2 year program in physics department
Academic Foundation: 1922, Academy is formed correct answers American Academy of
Optometry (AAO) is formed
Conference to exchange information
Academic Foundation: 1931, OEP begins correct answers Optometric Extension Program is
formed
Academic Foundation: 1937, start of OSU optometry school correct answers OSU's program
becomes a school of Optometry (Dr. Glenn A. Fry was the director)
Bachelors degree in Optometry
Academic Foundation: 1941, ASCO is formed correct answers Association of Schools and
Colleges of Optometry (ASCO) is formed
Optometry schools organization
Academic Foundation: 1942, OSU's first optics degree correct answers OSU's first degree in
Physiological Optics is awarded to Dr. Henry Hofstetter (founding dean at Indiana)
Academic Foundation: 1968, OSU becomes a college of optometry correct answers OSU's
program becomes a College of Optometry; Doctor of Optometry degree is established; (Dr. Fred
Hebbard was Dean for 20 years, followed by Deans Richard Hill and John Schoessler)
People needed to return to school to receive an OD
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