ACOE_Self-Study

An annual Externship Expo is held at SUNY Optometry to update directors, site supervisors or their representatives on program requirements, clinical teaching expectations and guidance including instruction on assessment and calibration of grading. Feedback from site directors is used for needs assessment and to identify topics for future meetings and workshops. The Externship Expo consists of two sessions: a) a presentation to the externship directors and site supervisors including administrative updates (presentation in September 2017 was on the “Clinical remediation of the struggling optometric student,” b) a meet and greet reception where third year students meet site directors/supervisors to discuss their externship sites aiding their decisions concerning future application to externship sites. An Externship Site Supervisor Educational Initiative (SESSEI) program, which incorporated feedback from externship site directors/supervisors, was included as part of the September 2018 Externship Expo. Please see Appendix II-15 for the agenda. Four interactive clinical workshops were developed for site directors/supervisors. These hands-on workshops included OCT & glaucoma evaluation; integrated wavefront aberrometry and automated refracting lanes; corneal topography and specialty contact lens design; and wide-angle fundus photography and fundus auto-fluorescence.

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