Two optometrist VA clinic with 2 techs and an optical. recently updated equipment includes an OPTOS, Icare tonometer, Wave Analyzer Medica, and HVF and OCT. There is opportunity for shadowing ophthalmologists (retina, glaucoma, pediatrics) as well as surgery depending on availability and student interest.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

1) Increase the student's confidence, experience, and skill level with regard to taking effective histories, refracting patients, dispensing and adjusting glasses, performing gonioscopy, examining patients, taking good notes, and charting effectively and efficiently.

2) Familiarizing the student with ordering, performing, and interpreting the results of special testing including OCT, OPTOS, HVF, and WAM 700.

3) Increase the student's comfort level and experience with examining patients with ocular disease, diagnosing ocular disease, discussing ocular conditions with patients, answering patient questions, addressing patient concerns, and ordering appropriate testing, follow up, referrals and consults.

The overall goal is to help the student examine patients as the eye doctor that they will soon be. Allowing them to make there own clinical decisions, but with the attending eye doctors there to