OPT 5219 Professional Optometric Practice I
Two hours of lecture per week. The course emphasizes general topics related to your development as an optometrist and future health care provider. A general overview of the history of healthcare and the profession of optometry will be discussed as well as current issues facing the profession. Professional and ethical issues in the practice of optometry are focused on. An overview of organized optometry will be presented. Additionally, a concentration of key concepts & topics related to personal and spiritual development for future healthcare providers will be emphasized by way of the Personal Development Pathway lecture series. Concepts of epidemiology in the practice of optometry will be discussed including morbidity, mortality, the distribution of eye disease and vision problems, and types of epidemiological studies. Emphasis will be on major epidemiological eye studies and evidence-based medicine.
Offered
Fall