Analysis and inspiration of American optometrist teaching system / 中华医学教育探索杂志

ABSTRACT

The optometrist education system in the United States has a history of more than 100 years and has become a complete and mature system. It contains five parts optometry admission test (OAT); a complete curriculum of optometry, including basic medical lectures, optometric theories and skills, large amount of clinical practices; the National Board Exam of Optometry (NBEO) which is mandatory for every licensed optometrist/practitioner, a one-year optional resident program; continue education in every year for renewing optometric licenses. We analyzed differents such as the enrollment requirements, the training time, the graduation requirements and the career perspective of the optometry education system between China and the United States were analyzed, we want to develop a optometrist training system with Chinese characteristics.