2016_SUNY_Optometry_PRR

Highlights of OD Exit Survey Class of 2014 N = 54

General  91% agree or strongly agree that “Overall, I am satisfied with the quality of the optometric education I received at SUNY”  73% agree or strongly agree that “If I had it to do over again, I’d attend SUNY Optometry”  66% have a long ‐ term goal of entering a partnership or purchasing or opening a practice  43% have long ‐ term plans to practice in New York state  38% plan to enter a residency program immediately upon graduation  38% will have a total (undergrad and grad) indebtedness of $175,000 or higher Overall Preparedness  Students feel underprepared or somewhat underprepared to independently (>20%): o Prescribe/fit contact lenses for presbyopes (35%) o Determine when to refer lesions of the adnexa for biopsy (35%) o Treat herpes corneal infection (23%) o Advise a patient on various progressive lens options (30%) o Administer IV, IM or subconjunctival injections (> 80% each)  Students feel underprepared or somewhat underprepared in (>20%): o Practice management (62%) o Coding and billing (75%) o Participation in quality assurance record reviews (40%) Lecture/lab  Students believe that not enough lecture/lab time was devoted to (>25%): o Methods and procedures related to evaluation of health of ocular tissues (29%) o General medicine (52%) o Posterior segment disease (27%) o Contact lenses (37%) o Low Vision (62%) o Practice management (57%) o Laser procedures of anterior segment (65%) o Laser procedures of posterior segment (71%)  Students believe that too much lecture/lab time was devoted to (>25%): o Prescribe oral medications to treat eye disease (50%) o Manage post ‐ surgical care in refractive surgery (41%) o Manage optic neuropathies (39%) o Treat strabismus (31%) o Provide primary care for infants/toddlers (2 or younger) (48%) o Prescribe near reading devices for low vision (54%) o Prescribe telescopic devices (70%)

o Cellular and molecular biology (55%) o Geometrical and visual optics (33%)

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