2016_SUNY_Optometry_PRR

Highlights of OD Exit Survey Class of 2013 N = 57

General  95% agree or strongly agree that “Overall, I am satisfied with the quality of the optometric education I received at SUNY”  84% agree or strongly agree that “If I had it to do over again, I’d attend SUNY Optometry”  84% have a long ‐ term goal of entering a partnership or purchasing or opening a practice  40% have long ‐ term plans to practice in New York state  25% plan to enter a residency program immediately upon graduation 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 (35.1%) o Treat herpes corneal infection (25%)

o Prescribe oral medications to treat eye disease (56%) o Manage post ‐ surgical care in refractive surgery (55%) o Manage optic neuropathies (37%) o Treat strabismus (39%) o Provide primary eye care for preschoolers (ages 3 ‐ 5) (21.4%) o Provide primary care for infants/toddlers (2 or younger) (46%) o Prescribe near reading devices for low vision (60%) o Prescribe telescopic devices (79%)

o Advise a patient on various progressive lens options (36%) o Administer IV, IM or subconjunctival injections (> 85% each)  Students feel underprepared or somewhat underprepared in (>20%): o Practice management (71%) o Coding and billing (70%) o Participation in quality assurance record reviews (39%) o Interprofessional health care (21.4%) 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 (30%) o General medicine (57%)

o Anterior segment disease (46%) o Posterior segment disease (39%) o Contact lenses (54%) o Low Vision (73%) o Pediatrics (27%) o Practice management (61%)

o Laser procedures of anterior segment (63%) o Laser procedures of posterior segment (54%)

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