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Published in Viv Cook, Caroline Daly, Mark Newman, Work-based Learning in Clinical Settings, 2021
Chapter 9 has a theoretical orientation toward workplace studies and ethnomethodology. Its context is optometry practice. It describes how common-sense knowledge about everyday events is embedded in work activities. This type of knowledge includes contextual details of real-world actions and practical knowledge of the ways people go about accomplishing tasks. It includes, also, knowledge of the resources people use to do their work and the social organisation of particular contexts. Common-sense knowledge is a largely tacit, taken-for-granted and intuitively known feature of action. It is not easily articulated verbally and can only be gained by undertaking the activity to which it pertains, rather than by studying in the abstract. Communication skills have an important place in professional knowing, since optometric consultations are co-produced through the interaction between optometrists and patients. An important part of learning to become a clinician involves not only learning technical, clinical knowledge but also learning to apply and use that knowledge in practice. A good deal of the competencies required for a given area of professional practice are learnt through engaging in the work itself.
The fundamentals of health care education
Published in Joseph A. Balogun, Health Care Education in Nigeria, 2020
Similar to the medical and dental programs, nursing, pharmacy, physiotherapy, and optometry programs also require a license to practice. They also have educational opportunities for clinical specialty training. For example, the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties has graduated more than 24,000 clinical specialists who completed advanced training in nine specialty areas of cardiovascular and pulmonary, clinical electrophysiology, geriatrics, neurology, oncology, orthopedics, pediatrics, sports, and women’s health. The Board of Pharmacy Specialties, an autonomous arm of the American Pharmacists Association, has certified more than 46,000 pharmacists across 12 specialties in pharmacy education – ambulatory care, cardiology, critical care, geriatrics, infectious diseases, nuclear, nutrition support, oncology, pediatric, pharmacotherapy, psychiatric, and compounded sterile preparations. The American Board of Certification in Medical Optometry has, as of January 2020, graduated over 400 licensed optometrists with an entry-level OD degree as specialists in medical optometry for diagnosis, and treatment of primary and secondary disorders of the eye, adnexa, and visual tracts.
Apparent Sudden Visual Loss: An Essential Approach
Published in Amy-lee Shirodkar, Gwyn Samuel Williams, Bushra Thajudeen, Practical Emergency Ophthalmology Handbook, 2019
Sudden loss of vision is an ophthalmic emergency and patients should be seen without delay. Patients are likely to be very worried and typically present directly to hospital (emergency department or eye department) or attend a community optometry practice. Occasionally patients may present to their general practitioner or are referred by another medical team within the hospital.
Vision Beyond Vision: Lessons Learned from Amblyopia
Published in Journal of Binocular Vision and Ocular Motility, 2023
To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the in-school vision screening program in our jurisdiction, we conducted a cost-utility analysis using a hypothetical cohort of 25,000 children living in Toronto, Canada.70 Three strategies were compared: (1) current standard i.e., vision testing annually from age 3 to 18 years by pediatricians as part of well-child visits, as recommended by the Canadian Paediatric Society71 (which has similar guidelines as the American Academy of Pediatrics);72 (2) current standard plus optometric examination once between 2 to 5 years of age, and annually thereafter until 18 years, as recommended by national optometry professional associations (“current standard plus optometric exams”);73 and (3) current standard plus vision screening by a public health unit in kindergartens of elementary schools at age 5 years (“current standard plus in-school screening”). We found that the two alternative strategies (i.e., “current standard plus optometric exams” and “current standard plus in-school screening”) were not more cost-effective than the current standard. This finding is primarily driven by a great deal of uncertainty in the modeling such that the incremental-cost effectiveness of all three strategies overlapped considerably. In addition, at the population level, because most children (≥94%) do not have amblyopia, our results indicated that it is difficult to justify the cost of introducing a universal program over the current standard.
Leading Change Together: Supporting Collaborative Practice through Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Continuing Education
Published in Journal of European CME, 2022
Kathleen Regnier, Dimitra V. Travlos, Daniel Pace, Sierra Powell, Allison Hunt
The Council on Optometric Practitioner Education (COPE®), the only nationally recognised accreditation system for optometric CE, was established by the Association of Regulatory Boards of Optometry (ARBO) as an accreditation service for ARBO’s member licencing boards to ensure both consistency and quality of the optometric CE required for licence renewal. In an ongoing effort to meet the highest standards for independent, valid CE, COPE joined Joint Accreditation in 2018 to introduce optometry in IPCE and promote team-based healthcare initiatives within the optometry field. The field of optometry originated with an emphasis on glasses, contact lenses, and vision training. Since then, significant advancements have been made, and optometry has expanded to incorporate extensive medical training to diagnose the ocular manifestations of diseases, such as diabetes, hypertension, glaucoma, and macular degeneration. Although optometrists manage these conditions using an interprofessional team-based approach, there were still members of both the general public and overall healthcare education community that were not aware of these advancements until COPE joined Joint Accreditation.
Clinical procedures in primary eye care, 5th edition
Published in Clinical and Experimental Optometry, 2021
David Elliott’s Clinical Procedures in Primary Eye Care continues its growing reputation of being one of the most well-known and trusted procedures textbooks in optometry. The first edition of this book was released in 1997 when we were undergraduate optometry students, and we were very thankful to have used that edition. During subsequent successive versions, this book has evolved substantially. The newly revised 5th edition of this valuable resource continues to be concise and is divided into nine chapters covering a wide range of commonly used clinical techniques in primary care optometry. Each chapter begins with an outline format which makes the pertinent information easy to follow and easy to locate. Optometry students will find this book helpful as they navigate the many potential examination techniques by providing evidence-based eye examination techniques in a very easy-to-read and understandable format.