Optometric Management Education Residency

This unique program combines a Residency in Family Practice Optometry offered by the Northeastern State University Oklahoma College of Optometry with a Master of Business Administration Degree (M.B.A.) offered by the NSU College of Business and Technology. This program is open to U.S. Army optometrists.

Expected weekly hours of duty are 40 hours per week with on call duties. The 40 hours includes being scheduled in Family Practice Residency activities 20 hours a week, with the remainder of the week being devoted to pursuing a Master in Business Administration (class and study time). Call is shared by the four Family Practice Residents and the Cornea and Contact Lenses Resident. The Army Family Practice Optometry Resident is half-time in the residency program for two years, and he or she is assigned half as much call as the other residents each year of his or her program. The Army Family Practice Resident is scheduled for a total of about 5-6 weeks of call during each residency program year. Attendance of continuing education may lengthen the weekly hours of duties.

Residents are provided leave. Residents receive 10 days of vacation. NSU is closed for several holidays (3 days at Thanksgiving, the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Spring Break (2 days), Fall Break (2 days), and Fourth of July holiday. At the beginning of the year, residents are assigned which holidays they are on call. Residents are asked to volunteer for which holidays they prefer to be on call for first. If volunteering fails to cover all holidays, then names are drawn to determine who receives which holidays. If the resident is not scheduled on call, the resident is not expected at work on these holidays and they are not taken from his or her vacation. Residents also receive professional leave to attend continuing education meetings. The amount of professional leave each resident receives is at the discretion of the Residency Supervisor. The Supervisor encourages attendance at Continuing Education courses.

Specific requirements are in place for program completion and awarding of the Certificate of Residency. The requirements are as follows:

  • Completed publishable quality paper (research paper, literature review, or case report), all Patient Encounter Logs with encounter types, and all Residency Activity Logs.
  • Completed exit evaluations (Evaluation of Clinical Supervisors, Evaluation of Residency Program Supervisor, Evaluation of NSUOCO Residency Director, and Residency Program Evaluation).
  • Passage of NBEO Part I, II and III including passage of the TMOD.

ASCO Information Sheet

E-mail the Optometric Management Education Supervisor, John Pembroke O.D.

NSUOCO students Drew Crawford & Colby Roberts in class.
 

 

 

Mission, Goals, Objectives

Mission

The mission of the Program in Optometric Management Education is to provide advanced clinical training through the Family Practice Residency and an M.B.A. degree for post-graduate optometrists, allowing residents upon completion of the program to pursue professional opportunities which require a high level culmination of clinical and management expertise.

Goal of the Optometric Management Education Program:

Completion of the Residency in Family Practice Optometry through the College of Optometry (outlined below) and completion of all the requirements for the Masters in Business Administration degree required by Northeastern State University.

Goals of the Residency in Family Practice Optometry:
Goal A

Provide appropriately supervised clinical educational experiences with emphasis in the area(s) of primary care optometry selected by the resident.

Objectives:

  • Provide the resident a large number of patient encounters.
  • Provide the resident exposure to a high diversity of clinical conditions within his/her area(s) of emphasis.
  • Encourage appropriate referral and co-management of patients with other health care providers.
  • Allow the resident to participate in the clinical supervision of optometry students.

Goal B

Stimulate scholarly development in the resident.

Objectives:

  • Encourage lecture and workshop presentations in the form of continuing education, grand rounds, optometry classroom, etc.
  • Stimulate life-long learning by keeping the resident active in critically reviewing ophthalmic literature.
  • Allow the resident to attend continuing education courses.
  • Require completion of a research paper, literature review, or case report of publishable quality by the end of the residency program.

Goal C

Stimulate a commitment to service in the resident.

Objectives:

  • Enhance the resident's active involvement in the optometric community by encouraging membership and participation in optometric organizations.