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Continuing Medical Education

The NSU-OCO Department of continuing medical education offers seminars for learning optometric, medical and procedural skills. Our conferences can help you:

  • improve continuity of care
  • provide comprehensive services
  • reduce health care costs
  • enjoy an enhanced practice
  • receive CME credits

Our faculty of highly skilled optometric physicians are the tops in their fields. They are esteemed for their leadership in procedures education, their knowledge, and their exciting teaching style. Our CME faculty continues to receive outstanding reviews from prior course attendees and professional optometric organizations. Our programs are intended for licensed optometric physicians and typically presented through venues such as state association conferences, and other regional or national symposia.

Information

The mission statement of NSUOCO includes as one of its goals, to "develop high quality Continuing Medical Education programs allowing regional optometrists to meet on-going licensure requirements and remain on the forefront of the changing scope and practice of optometry." This has been the goal of the Continuing Medical Education efforts of NSUOCO since the College's inception in 1979.

Mission

Improve patient care through post-graduate optometric education by continuing to serve as a resource for optometric physicians in the Tahlequah region, the State of Oklahoma, the United States, as well as other countries.

Goal

The goal of the Continuing Medical Education office is to provide excellent programs in optometric education at the post-graduate level by effectively and efficiently utilizing our resources, creativity, knowledge and skill. Programs for optometric assistants will also be offered as part of our involvement in community relations.

Objectives

  1. To prepare men and women for excellence in the practice of optometry to serve the primary vision care needs of the public in our state and region.
  2. To provide an academic and professional environment for Continuing Medical Education studies.
  3. To foster knowledge of the application of research so that optometrists can advance their service to patients.
  4. To develop clinical programs for practicing optometrists to maintain and enhance their clinical competence.
  5. To create those programs of public and professional vision health education that will contribute to an understanding of vision and eye-related health problems and their prevention, recognition, treatment, management and rehabilitation.
  6. To develop a program of recognized excellence within an atmosphere of mutual support, cooperation that fosters the attainment of both individual and collective goals, while further enhancing the delivery of patient care.


For questions concerning NSUOCO Continuing Optometric Medical Education, you may contact Ashley Manes, Continuing Medical Education Coordinator, or Mary Stratton, Director of CME & Assistant Dean for Administration.

NSUOCO CME
1001 N. Grand Ave.
Tahlequah, OK 74464-7017

Ashley Beason Manes
Continuing Education Coordinator
918-444-4033
beason01@nsuok.edu