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San Diego Center for Vision Care

Hammock Relaxing

ICO STUDENTS ACCEPTED EACH QUARTER

Essentials

Location

7898 Broadway

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Lemon Grove

CA

91945

U.S.A.

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Western U.S.

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Description

Note: 2 locations: Lemon Grove and Sorrento Valley

 

Learning Objectives:

  1. To develop confidence and skill in treating perceptual dysfunction.

  2. To develop confidence and skill in treating strabismus and amblyopia.

  3. To develop confidence and skill in communicating with patients, parents, and other professionals.

  4. To learn about practice management for maintaining a primary care and vision therapy practice.

  5. To attend professional and community lectures and clinical staff grand rounds.

Number of Student Encounters

Average number of patients per week per student:

25

How many are full exams?

How many are special testing?

How many are observation only?

8

Relative Percentage of Student Encounters

4

2

1

90

3

% = Routine Refractive

% = Contact Lens

% = Ocular Disease

% = Pediatric / Binocular Vision

% = Low Vision

Facility Details

Required equipment:

Diagnostic kit. Attire: business attire. No white coats. 

Contact for externship liason: 

Justin Matsuura, OD

jmatsuuraod@gmail.com

Arrival procedure for students:

Contact Dr. Hillier and Dr. Matsuura one month prior to start prior to first day for instructions.

Attending Staff - Full Time:
Melissa Hillier, OD (Primary Care, Pediatrics / Vision Therapy)
Carl Hillier, OD (Primary Care, Pediatrics / Vision Therapy)
Justin Matsuura, OD (Primary Care, Pediatrics / Vision Therapy)

Flora Huang, OD (Primary Care, Pediatrics / Vision Therapy)

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

"I enjoyed my experience at SDCVC! Although the clinical exams are observation, I still felt that I learned so much from Dr. Hillier's approach and thought processes in a wide range of cases including brain injury, sports vision, learning related, strabismus, and infant/toddler exams. We work directly with patients in vision therapy which is tailored to meet the patient's goals, and it was rewarding to see the progress of each patient. All of the staff were so kind and helpful in reviewing vision therapy activities. I also learned so much from staff meetings where each week Dr. Hillier would review specific VT activities and concepts in depth."

Pediatrics/Vision Therapy

Facility specialties:

Facility category:

Peds/BV/Advanced CL/VR (Specialty 3)

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Is there on-site parking?

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Facility website

Student Clinic Hours

5:00 pm

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Additional Info about Hours:

M/T/Th: Lemon Grove 

W/F: Sorrento Valley

Private

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