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Considerations in Building a School-Based Vision Program
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Christina M. Ambrosino; Jonathan Callan; Tresa M. S. Wiggins; Michael X. Repka; Megan E. Collins – Journal of School Nursing, 2024
The burden of childhood visual impairment and disparities in access to pediatric vision care remain pressing issues in the United States. School-based vision programs (SBVPs) serve as one approach to advancing health equity. Operating at the intersection of schools and healthcare, SBVPs can increase access to pediatric vision services, improve…
Descriptors: School Health Services, Vision Tests, Access to Health Care, Partnerships in Education
Attending to Audience: Comparing Optometry Student Talk "with" and "about" Patients
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Hildebrand, Jenna M.; Spafford, Marlee M.; Schryer, Catherine F. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2009
We explored mediating concepts that affect clinical novices shifting between their talk "with" patients in eye examinations and their talk "about" patients in case presentations (nCPs). In a Canadian optometry teaching clinic, patient "chief concern or request", "illness experience", and…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Optometry, Patients, Interpersonal Communication
Plan for Development of an Educational Program in Rehabilitative Optometry. Final Report.
Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry, Washington, DC. – 1980
The development of a model educational program in rehabilitative optometry is examined in terms of a statement of the scope of practice of the profession, analysis of existing educational programs in the field, and competency objectives to which the model educational program is directed. A survey of nine of the 13 institution members of the…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Clinical Experience, College Curriculum, Competency Based Education