Externship Site
Lake City VA Medical Center
ICO STUDENTS ACCEPTED EACH QUARTER
Essentials
Location
619 S. Marion
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Lake City
FL
32025
U.S.A.
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South East U.S.
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Description
The student will provide primary eye care services, inpatient eye care and low vision exams. Externs work one on one with a low vision optometrist 1/2 day/week.
Number of Student Encounters
Average number of patients per week per student:
45
How many are full exams?
How many are special testing?
10
How many are observation only?
Relative Percentage of Student Encounters
20
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10
% = Routine Refractive
% = Contact Lens
% = Ocular Disease
% = Pediatric / Binocular Vision
% = Low Vision
Facility Details
Required equipment:
Condensing lenses, ocular disease and low vision notes.
Contact for externship liason:
Carolyn Clark Huggett
carolyn.huggett@va.gov
Arrival procedure for students:
On the first day, arrive at 7:15am and park in patient parking. Enter the hospital at the Outpatient 2 Entrance (located by the ER). There is a covered drive-through patient drop-off by this entrance. Once you enter you will see the eye clinic check-in. Introduce yourself to the clerk and ask to see Dr. Howard.
Attending Staff - Full Time:
Carolyn Clark Huggett, OD (Primary Care, Ocular Disease)
Jeffery Curry, OD (Primary Care, Ocular Disease)
Shephali Patel, OD (Primary Care, Ocular Disease)
Martza Grey, OD (Primary Care, Ocular Disease)
Michelle Nguyen, OD (Primary Care, Ocular Disease)
Shawn Brennan, OD (Primary Care, Ocular Disease)
Miscellaneous comments:
Additional Information:
Click here to review onboarding requirements. If you do not see your site listed on Sharepoint, contact your preceptor directly.
Student Review
"This was by far one of the greatest experiences, worked in a very friendly environment. You have 2 techs that help out with some patients and do most of the work for you, they are willing to help you in any way. One of the days every week you are scheduled in the testing room where you do all the visual fields, ant/post seg pictures, OCTs it can get backed up but you can ask the techs to help you any time. The staff was wonderful and fun you can talk to them about anything and they will happily assist you or give their opinions."
Ocular Disease
Facility specialties:
Facility category:
Ocular Disease (Specialty 2)
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Is there on-site parking?
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Facility website
Student Clinic Hours
4:00 pm
7:30 am
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Additional Info about Hours:
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