2016_SUNY_Optometry_PRR

Highlights of OD Exit Survey Class of 2015 Response rate = 59/74 = 79.7%

General  95% agree (72%) or strongly agree (22%) that “Overall, I am satisfied with the quality of the optometric education I received at SUNY”  86% agree (64%) or strongly agree (22%) that “If I had it to do over again, I’d attend SUNY Optometry”  67% have a long ‐ term goal of entering a partnership or purchasing or opening a practice  47% have long ‐ term plans to practice in New York state  36% plan to enter a residency program immediately upon graduation  29% will have a total (undergrad and grad) indebtedness of $175,000 or higher  43% expect to earn $100,000 or more in their first full year of practice following graduation Overall Preparedness  Students feel underprepared or somewhat underprepared to independently (>20%): o Prescribe/fit contact lenses for presbyopes (24%) o Determine when to refer lesions of the adnexa for biopsy (35%  14%) 1 o Treat herpes corneal infection (23%  13%) o Prescribe oral medications to treat eye disease (37%) o Manage post ‐ surgical care in refractive surgery (41%  17%) o Manage optic neuropathies (21%) o Manage strabismus (33%) o Provide primary care for infants/toddlers (2 or younger) (43%) o Prescribe near reading devices for low vision (50%) o Prescribe telescopic devices (74%) o Adjust the frame of a patient’s spectacles (21%) NEW o Advise a patient on various progressive lens options (33%) o Administer IV, IM or subconjunctival injections (> 70% each)  Students feel underprepared or somewhat underprepared in (>20%): o Practice management (45%) o Coding and billing (57%) o Participation in quality assurance record reviews (36%) Lecture/lab  Students believe that not enough lecture/lab time was devoted to (>25%): o Systemic physiology (47%) NEW o Methods and procedures related to evaluation of health of ocular tissues (29%  19%) o General medicine (60%) o Glaucoma 29% NEW o Anterior segment disease (29%) NEW o Posterior segment disease (31%) o Contact lenses (26%)

1 Items highlighted in yellow exceeded the criterion for flagging in 2014, but not in 2015.

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