EYE on EDUCATION December 2018 Eye on Education - December 2018 - https://eye.opted.org Table Of Contents A Message from ASCO President, Dr. David Damari ............................................ 3 Optometry’s Future Focus of Fall Board Meeting .............................................. 4 National Board Pass Rate Data Available on ASCO’s Website ..................................... 6 Invite to Apply for Associate Editor, Optometric Education ....................................... 7 Student Award in Clinical Ethics .......................................................... 8 ORMatch is Now Open ................................................................. 9 Now Available: 2018 Clinic Updates on Myopia, Low Vision Technology, Traumatic Brain Injury, and OCT-A Imaging .......................................................................... 10 Get Involved in the ASCO’s Inspiring Future ODs Program ..................................... 11 Health Professions Week Educates Thousands about the Field of Optometry .......................... 12 News to Pass Along .................................................................. 13 News to Pass Along .................................................................. 14 News to Pass Along .................................................................. 15 Inaugural Ask the Experts Event Held ..................................................... 16 Applicant, Entering Class, Post-Graduate Data Available Online .................................. 18 Alcon ............................................................................ 19 Allergan .......................................................................... 20 Compulink ........................................................................ 21 CooperVision ...................................................................... 22 Hoya ............................................................................ 23 Johnson & Johnson .................................................................. 25 National Vision ..................................................................... 29 Interprofessional Education showcased in San Antonio during Academy ............................. 30 AZCOPT, CCO Offer Virtual Reality Labs for Student Training .................................. 31 Dr. Donald R. Korb Joins the Faculty at New England College of Optometry .......................... 32 Hundreds of New Yorkers Attend University Eye Center Health and Wellness Expo ..................... 33 In Memory of Dr. Freddy Chang ......................................................... 34 Montgomery County, Pa. School Vision Program Honored ...................................... 35 NECO Hosts STAPLE Contact Lens Program at CTC .......................................... 36 New Textbook: Clinical Cases in Eye Care edited by SUNY Optometry’s Dr. Mark Rosenfield, et al. ......... 37 Pacific University College of Optometry Dean Dr. Jennifer Coyle Receives National Honor ................ 38 Salus PCO Participates in Special Olympics ................................................. 40 Salus PCO Welcomes Three New Faculty Members ............................................ 41 SCO Faculty Honored ................................................................ 42 SCO Honors Norma K. Bowyer with Lifetime Achievement Award ................................. 43 Student Research Named Newsworthy by the American Academy of Optometry ....................... 44 SUNY Optometry Students Join VOSH International Mission to Grenada ............................ 45 SUNY Optometry’s 2018 Alumnus of the Year: Dr. Joseph Boorady ................................ 46 SUNY Optometry’s Clinical Vision Research Center Study Helps Secure FDA Nod for New Imaging Tech ..... 47 SUNY Optometry’s Dr. Alexandra Benavente-Perez Receives 2019 Career Development Award from the American Academy of Optometry ........................................................ 48 Third Year NECO Student and Partnership Team at Codman Square Health Center Receives Grant to Develop Sustainable Models for Vision Screenings and Follow-Up Care .............................. 49 UHCO Awarded National Grant ......................................................... 50 UHCO is one of the First Optometry Institutions in the US to use Anatomage Table ..................... 51 University of Houston and Humana Announce Long-term Strategic Partnership ....................... 52 ASCO SIG News .................................................................... 54 2 / 56 Eye on Education - December 2018 - https://eye.opted.org A Message from ASCO President, Dr. David Damari Optometry, and indeed all health professions, have entered a major period of disruption. It began with the onset of electronic health records, which doctors across all disciplines still struggle to integrate into their practices. It continues with advancing technology that collects clinical data (I am including images in my definition of clinical data) much more quickly, less invasively, and more accurately than any of the techniques clinical programs teach over several academic terms, and that are still tested in some professions’ national board examinations. As the technology continues to improve, it is also becoming more portable, with many new developments coming as apps for smart phones or tablet devices. As I wrote about in my previous column, ASCO is working with other optometric and cross-disciplinary organizations to make sure our institutions stay current with these trends, and that we all have a voice in how these trends affect the profession as we try to prepare our students for their future practice. As part of that effort, this March we will be hosting a discussion about the future of optometric education, Opening Our Eyes. We envision this discussion, which will be limited to invitees from each of our institutions and select others from organized optometry, including the AOA, AOSA, Academy, ARBO, and NBEO, as the first in a series of events in optometry. The series will help us to understand the future of healthcare and assure that optometry, the patients we serve, and those who were underserved in the old system all benefit from the changes that are coming. Some of the subsequent events will be hosted by ASCO and many others will be hosted by the other organizations that we collaborate with. Open Eyes will focus on the issues that specifically affect what we, as optometric educators, do every day and will need to do in the future, and because of that narrow focus, we have necessarily kept the scope of invitations relatively narrow. The topics we will discuss include the declining applicant pool and its potential impact on the quality of education, the role of student debt levels, the expansion of our profession’s scope and the impact of that expansion on education, the perception that a minority of our graduates are practicing to the full scope available to them by law, and the impact of technology and social media on the future of optometry. It is a very ambitious agenda for a one-day discussion, and we hope all the participants will be forthcoming so that the outcomes can help guide our profession’s path to the future. _______________________________________________ 3 / 56 Eye on Education - December 2018 - https://eye.opted.org Optometry’s Future Focus of Fall Board Meeting Photo: Diane Reich Far-reaching decisions around funding a national optometric education awareness campaign and participation in the governance of the profession’s continuing education accreditation program were among the ground-breaking decisions made by the ASCO Board of Directors at its recent meeting on Nov. 6 in San Antonio. ASCO has embarked on a highly targeted public awareness campaign, Optometry Gives Me Life, designed to raise the visibility of optometry as a career goal of choice, favorably positioning the profession in the competitive health profession education field. During its meeting, the ASCO Board of Directors agreed to a special dues assessment that will enable the launch of the campaign in early 2019. Optometry Gives Me Life will reach college aged students who have expressed an interest in a STEM or health profession, yet may not be considering optometry as an option. In a vibrant, lively and engaging way, the campaign showcases young Doctors of Optometry with special focus on their area of practice as well as their life outside of optometry. The campaign will utilize significant social media outreach, as well as a distinct website that will provide the user with in-depth but easily digestible information about life as an optometrist and how to pursue a degree. More details about this campaign will be provided in future issues of Eye on Education. The Board also agreed to participate with the Association of Regulatory Boards of Optometry and the American Academy of Optometry in a Governing Committee for the Council on Optometric Education, leading the profession’s continuing education accreditation process. A formal Memorandum of Understanding was considered and approved by the ASCO Board. Additionally, the ASCO Board voted to host a day-long, invite-only program, OPENING OUR EYES: A Discussion on the Future of Optometric Education, slated for March 2019. Other important actions taken at the Board meeting were: An update provided by NBEO President, Dr. Elizabeth Hoppe, on activities of the National Board of Examiners in Optometry and its exam pass rate processes. Approval of the FY18 Audit. Approval of comments to AOA,
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