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Practice of Optometry Exam #1 Exam | Questions And Answers Latest {2024- 2025} A+Graded | 100% Verified
What is an optometrist? - 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 - 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? - 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 - 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 - 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 - Minnesota optometrists secure the
passage of the first state law regulating the practice of optometry
Licensure: 1919, Ohio state laws - Ohio (#34) enacts its optometric practice law
20 years after Minnesota
Licensure: 1924, last jurisdiction to enact an optometry law - 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 - All states accept National Board of Examiners in Optometry
(NBEO) test results
Universal tests
Licensure: 2003, licensure by endorsemnet - Ohio can endorse you if you move to certain states
Licensure: 2006, new testing format - NBEO proposes new testing format which better integrates basic
and clinical sciences
Licensure: 2009, Board Certification passes - AOA House of Delegates passes Board Certification process
Academic Foundation: 1914 Ohio State begins - 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 - American Academy of Optometry (AAO) is formed
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