Provide a comprehensive state-of-the-art educational program which supports the profession
of optometry as an independent, primary health care profession.
- Periodically review, assess, and modify the curriculum to assure that students are
provided education and training to prepare them for the full scope of high quality
optometric clinical care.
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Provide an educational environment which challenges and motivates students to prepare
themselves personally and professionally for careers as optometric physicians and
citizens.
- Continually review, assess, and modify the curriculum to assure that both the didactic
and clinical courses provide appropriate material and learning objectives.
- Work toward funding, planning, and completed construction of a new optometry facility
including classrooms, labs and clinic space; a facility that will provide an environment
to educate and train future health care professionals.
- Continually monitor and assess the ongoing plan for the systematic replacement and
proper maintenance and repair of clinical, laboratory, and other equipment as needed
for student education and to keep up with technological changes.
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Provide faculty as teachers, clinicians and scholars who are diverse and licensed
to the broadest scope of optometric practice.
- Provide competitive salaries, benefits, adequate tenure and opportunities for economic
and professional advancement for faculty members.
- Implement nationwide searches when faculty positions become available and fully involve
the faculty with both identification of program needs and faculty selection in connection
with such searches.
- Periodically assess the needs and resources of the program to identify the number
of faculty needed and teaching areas of faculty to attain the educational goals of
the program and acquire additional experientially diverse faculty when need exists.
- Facilitate faculty development in the advancement of teaching, clinical, and research
skills.
- Encourage faculty involvement in professional organizations and activities.
- In filling faculty positions in the Rural Eye Program, the College will seek optometric
professionals who can blend particular expertise in the practical aspects of the delivery
of eye and vision care with student education.
- Provide support which encourages faculty to pursue research projects.
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Maintain standards and practices which result in the recruitment, enrollment, retention,
and graduation of students who are highly qualified and who contribute to the diversity
of the student body and the profession.
- Continue recruiting efforts in the state of Oklahoma, particularly among potentially
qualified undergraduate students, with the objective of increasing the number of qualified
applicants and constantly improving the quality of admitted students.
- Continue to recruit students from under-represented populations.
- Continue to recruit a student population which represents a wide variety of backgrounds
and experiences.
- Continually review, assess, and improve the programs that monitor student progress
and assist students who have academic or other concerns in order to maintain existing
high levels of retention and graduation.
- Regularly assess the following performance measurements of our students and graduates:
performance on national and state board exams, graduation/attrition rate, placement
success and acceptance into post graduate residency programs.
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Provide optometric students with a quantity and quality of clinical experiences necessary
to develop the professional competence to diagnose, treat, and manage eye and vision
conditions and to deliver care and services unique to the profession of optometry.
- Continue the existing relationships which provide the patient base for quality clinical
education and pursue additional alternatives to diversify those relationships.
- Continually provide evaluation and feedback to students on their clinical skills and
performance through course proficiency examinations, periodic clinical proficiency
examinations, and daily clinical evaluations.
- Assure that each student completes rotations through all clinical areas.
- Assure that each student completes a quality externship rotation.
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Continue developing the funding of programs and the development and utilization of
facilities which enable the College to address both present and future needs of the
professional education program.
- Continually identify current and future operating and capital needs and funding sources
which will enable the program to meet those needs.
- Continue developing public relations, marketing, and development strategies to educate
a variety of constituencies about the optometry program and the need for identifying
potential funding sources.
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Maintain positive relationships with the community and region in which the College
is located, alumni of the College, the optometric profession, and the public at large.
- Continue to enhance the provision of access to high quality eye and vision care for
all patients served.
- Continue to enhance our services as a referral center for area health care providers.
- Continue to enhance the program’s activities in providing health care and serving
as an educational resource to the optometric profession in the state of Oklahoma and
surrounding region.
- Continue communication and interaction with alumni through alumni newsletters and
continuing education events.
- Continue to invite input from alumni to determine their views regarding the quality
of their educational experiences and solicit input for improvement.
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Provide postgraduate and residency programs to enhance the clinical and specialty
skills of optometric graduates.
- Provide on and off-campus residency programs in order to build diversity in opportunities
for post-graduate optometrists.
- Provide residents with quality and diverse clinical/patient experiences.
- Periodically review the residency program to identify the appropriate size and scope
of the program in light of the profession’s needs and the College’s objectives.
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Provide high quality continuing education programs for optometrists and other health
care providers.
- Offer continuing education programs which provide material appropriate to meet on-going
professional requirements.
- Provide post graduate education which is on the forefront of the changing scope and
practice of optometry.
- Periodically review content, delivery and marketing of the continuing education program.
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Continue to review, assess, and periodically revise the mission statement, goals,
objectives, and long-range plans of the College.
- Periodically assess the outcomes (i.e., objectives) to determine if the goals are
being met and the mission statement is being fulfilled.
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