STANDARD COMPETENCIES:

 

 I.      Be able to demonstrate proper method of greeting and interviewing patients.

 II.     Demonstrate the ability to properly handle patient telephone calls, including triage and appointment scheduling.

 III.    Demonstrate knowledge of and ability to perform routine front office duties.

 IV.     Properly handle medical records for initiating a chart, filing records, purging outdated information, as well as charting and documenting data in the record appropriately.

 V.      Demonstrate the ability to take an appropriate, complete medical and ophthalmic history, as well as document this data in the medical record.

 VI.     Demonstrate accurate recording of distance and near visual acuities on adults, children and illiterates in the medical record, using appropriate abbreviations.

 VII.    Operate the lensometer accurately and efficiently.

 VIII.   Demonstrate the ability to use a streak retinoscope properly, to estimate the spherical and cylindrical (if present) refractive error of the human eye, to record results and to express results in conventional optical terms.

 IX.     Exhibit the technical skills needed to perform subjective and objective refractometry using clinical retinoscopy.

 X       The student will demonstrate the skills needed to perform tangent screens, Goldmann visual fields and automated perimetry.

 TOPICAL OUTLINE:

 

 I.      Communication with Site Coordinator

 II.     Professionalism and Ethics

 III.    Perform patient care in Ophthalmology or Optometry setting under supervision of Site Coordinator

 IV.     Completion of check offs and assignments in timely manner