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Lessons Learned from the Creation of a Center of Excellence in Low Vision and Vision Rehabilitation in Wenzhou, China
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Marinoff, Rebecca; Heilberger, Michael H. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2017
A model Center of Excellence in Low Vision and Vision Rehabilitation was created in a health care setting in China utilizing an inter-institutional relationship with a United States optometric institution. Accomplishments of, limitations to, and stimuli to the provision of low vision and vision rehabilitation services are shared.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Visual Impairments, Partial Vision, Rehabilitation
Targeted Vision Function Goals and Use of Vision Resources in Ophthalmology Patients with Age-Related Macular Degeneration and Comorbid Depressive Symptoms
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Casten, Robin; Rovner, Barry W.; Fontenot, Joseph L. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2016
Introduction: This study characterizes self-reported functional vision goals and the use of low vision resources (for example, services and devices) in ophthalmology clinic patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and comorbid depressive symptoms. Methods: From July 2009 to February 2013, we assessed 188 consecutive patients (age 65+;…
Descriptors: Vision, Patients, Optometry, Ophthalmology
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
The Optometric Residency: Its Bloom.
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Bleything, Willard B. – Journal of Optometric Education, 1979
Guidelines for proposed residencies in optometry are presented for pediatric, rehabilitative, and hospital optometry. Their significance in terms of costs, patient population, faculty expertise, and critical mass are discussed. (JMF)
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Costs, Graduate Medical Education, Guidelines
A Clinical Curriculum Model for Training Fourth-Year Optometry Students.
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Wilson, Roger J. – Journal of Optometric Education, 1990
The New England College of Optometry has developed a clinical curriculum that utilizes external clinical affiliates as a part of the fourth-year training process. Educational opportunities in primary, secondary, and tertiary care settings provide students with a wide range of patient care experiences. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Clinical Experience, College Curriculum, Curriculum Development
Problem Based Learning: Use of the Portable Patient Problem Pack (P4).
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Scheiman, Mitchell; Whittaker, Steve – Journal of Optometric Education, 1991
The format and production of the portable patient problem pack, a patient simulation method designed for problem-based learning, are described. Clinical and didactic applications and development of materials specifically for optometric education are discussed and additional information for designing optometry-related materials is appended.…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Clinical Experience, Educational Strategies, Higher Education
Utilizing the Patient Management Problem as a Student Clinical Evaluation Tool.
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Remington, Lee Ann; Roggenkamp, John R. – Optometric Education, 1994
A two-dimensional patient management problem test was designed to measure third-year optometry students' clinical competency at Pacific University (Oregon). Results suggest this evaluation method is valid and may be useful in identifying students needing to improve their clinical thinking skills. Some issues in test administration and scoring…
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Diagnostic Tests, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education