Program Outcomes
1. Students will demonstrate honesty and integrity.
a. Demonstrate behaviors expected of optometrists, including compassion, accountability, and patient confidentiality (P1).
b. Recognize personal limitations of knowledge and skill regarding optimal patient care (P2).
2. Students will demonstrate professional ethics, keeping the patient’s welfare foremost.
a. Conduct themselves as expressed in the Optometric Oath, AOA Code of Ethics, and AOA Standards of Professional Conduct (E1).
b. Demonstrate respect for the dignity of every patient and a commitment to empathetic and confidential care (E2).
c. Demonstrate an understanding of the conflicts of interest inherent in health care delivery and the ability to incorporate those principles into decisions affecting patient care (E3).
d. Demonstrate honesty and integrity in all interactions with patients and their families, colleagues and others with whom the optometrist must engage in their professional life (E4).
3. Students will demonstrate understanding in basic and clinical sciences including medical, vision and optical sciences, and the health care delivery system. Students will exhibit knowledge of:
a. Anatomy/Physiology (K1)
b. Binocular Vision/Visual Perception (K2)
c. Contact Lenses (K3)
d. Vision and Human Development (Pediatric through Geriatric) (K5)
e. Ocular and Systemic Pathology (K7)
f. Optics/Ophthalmic Optics (K8)
g. Pharmacology (K9)
h. Practice Management (K13)
4. Students will perform skills essential to patient care and provide the highest quality patient care with effective communication, cognitive and motor skills to prevent, diagnose, treat, and manage clinical conditions.
a. Anatomy/Physiology (S1)
b. Binocular Vision/Visual Perception (S2)
c. Vision and Human Development (Pediatric through Geriatric) (S5)
d. Ocular and Systemic Pathology (S7)
e. Optics/Ophthalmic Optics (S8)
f. Pharmacology (S9)
g. Use clinical reasoning to determine diagnoses with differentials, appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, and appropriate management plans (S13).
h. Prescribe ophthalmic materials, contact lenses, vision therapy, vision rehabilitation, pharmaceuticals and perform, refer, and co-manage surgical procedures; as applicable by state law (S14).
i. Demonstrate problem-solving and critical-thinking skills that integrate current knowledge and research, and the human dimensions of patient care to assure the highest quality of care for each patient (S15).
j. Demonstrate effective, efficient, and sensitive communication with patients, their families, and university personnel (S16).
5. Students will demonstrate sensitivity and responsiveness to a diverse patient population by providing high quality, culturally appropriate care to all patients.
a. Recognize how cultural differences impact doctor-patient interactions, health behaviors and health outcomes among different populations (CC1).
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