Category:
Primary Care Optometry
Residency Supervisor:
Dr. Alissa Proctor
Phone Number:☎ 918-444-4020
FAX Number: (918) 458-9603
Email: proctor1@nsuok.edu
Program Address:
Oklahoma College of Optometry
1001 North Grand Ave.
Tahlequah, OK 74464
918 444-4000
Program Description
This unique program combines a residency in Primary Care Optometry offered by the
Northeastern State University Oklahoma College of Optometry with a Master of Business
Administration Degree (M.B.A.) offered by the NSU College of Business and Technology.
This program is open to U.S. Army optometrists.
Expected weekly hours of duty are 40 hours per week with on call duties. The 40 hours
includes being scheduled in Primary Care Residency activities 20 hours a week, with
the remainder of the week devoted to pursuing a Master in Business Administration
(class and study time). Call is shared by the Primary Care residents, the cornea and
contact lenses resident, and the vision rehabilitation resident. The Army Primary
Care Optometry Resident is half-time in the residency program for two years, and he
or she is assigned half as much call as the other residents each year of the program.
The Army Primary Care Resident is scheduled for a total of about 5-6 weeks of call
during each residency program year. Attendance of continuing education may lengthen
the weekly hours of duties. Residents will be paid an U.S. Army active duty officer
salary.
At the beginning of the year, you are assigned which holidays you will be on call.
You are asked to volunteer for which holidays you prefer to be on call for first.
If volunteering fails to cover all holidays, then names are drawn to determine who
receives which holidays. If you are not scheduled on call, you are not expected at
work on these holidays and they are not taken from your vacation.
| Program Length |
24 Months |
| Start Date |
July 1 |
| Positions |
1 |
| Expected weekly hours |
Expected weekly hours of duty are 40 hours per week plus approximately 1 week/ month
evening and weekend emergency room eye care at Cherokee Nation W.W. Hastings Hospital.
Didactic resident seminars, attendance of continuing education, and research may lengthen
the weekly hours of duties. |
| Program Salary/Stipend |
U.S. Army active duty officer salary. |
| ASCO information sheet |
https://myasco.opted.org/searchEngines/residency_details.aspx?id=52 |
The mission of the Program in Optometric Management Education is to provide advanced
clinical training through the Primary Care Residency and an M.B.A. degree for post-graduate
optometrists, allowing residents upon completion of the program to pursue professional
opportunities which require a high level culmination of clinical and management expertise.
Goal of the Optometric Management Education Program:Completion of the Residency in Primary Care Optometry through the College of Optometry
(outlined below) and completion of all the requirements for the Masters in Business
Administration degree required by Northeastern State University.
Goals of the Residency in Primary Care Optometry:Goal A Provide appropriately supervised clinical educational experiences with emphasis in
the area(s) of primary care optometry selected by the resident.
Objectives:
- Provide the resident a large number of patient encounters.
- Provide the resident exposure to a high diversity of clinical conditions within his/her
area(s) of emphasis.
- Encourage appropriate referral and co-management of patients with other health care
providers.
- Allow the resident to participate in the clinical supervision of optometry students.
Goal BStimulate scholarly development in the resident.
Objectives:
- Encourage lecture and workshop presentations in the form of continuing education,
grand rounds, optometry classroom, etc.
- Stimulate life-long learning by keeping the resident active in critically reviewing
ophthalmic literature.
- Allow the resident to attend continuing education courses.
- Require completion of a research paper, literature review, or case report of publishable
quality by the end of the residency program.
Goal CStimulate a commitment to service in the resident.
Objectives:
- Enhance the resident's active involvement in the optometric community by encouraging
membership and participation in optometric organizations.
Interested applicants for military residency programs must be Active Duty Army officers
in order to apply. The selection process is quite different from its civilian counterpart.
The optometry residency programs are one of many advanced educational opportunities
that are available via the Medical Service Corps Long Term Health, Education, and
Training (LTHET) process. Each year, the military publishes the available programs
in the LTHET message (Appendix 15). Applicants apply approximately 18 months prior
to the expected residency start date (i.e. applications completed this spring are
for academic year 2013-2014). Therefore, as a result, military optometry officers
go back to complete a residency after a few years in practice. All eligible applications
are reviewed and residents are selected by a board of Army officers. Decisions are
made based on both, academic and military records. Decisions are published in June,
the year prior to the residency starting date. In the event of a vacancy, Army optometry
will solicit applications from 4th year optometry students participating of the Army
Health Professional Scholarship Programs. The application would then include a letter
of intent, three letters of recommendation, and a current transcript. A board of Senior
Army optometrists (including all Army residency supervisors) would review the applications
and make selections.
All eligible Army applicants are solicited to apply for the residency via the LTHET
message (Appendix 15). A list of application materials is included in the Long Term
Health Education and Training (LTHET) message released each December by the U.S. Army
Medical Service Corps and includes a DA Form 3838, Commander's Memorandum, Transcripts,
DA Photograph, Memorandum from the Optometry Consultant at the Office of the Surgeon
General and a signed/dated officer record brief (ORB)
- Completed publishable quality paper (research paper, literature review, or case report),
all patient encounter logs with encounter types and all residency activity logs
- Completed exit evaluations (evaluation of clinical supervisors, evaluation of residency
program supervisor, evaluation of NSUOCO residency director and residency program
evaluation)
- Passage of National Board of Examiners in Optometry Part I, II and III including passage
of the Treatment and Management of Ocular Disease
- Oklahoma Optometry license
- 10 days of vacation
- Paid sick leave
- NSU is closed for several holidays: three days at Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve through
New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Spring Break (five days), Fall Break (two
days) and Fourth of July
- Professional leave to attend continuing education meetings. The amount of professional
leave you receive is at the discretion of the residency supervisor. The residency
supervisor encourages attendance at CE courses.
- Professional liability insurance
- Health insurance
Meet the Residency Supervisor
Dr. Alissa Proctor, OD, FAAO, is a Professor at Northeastern State University Oklahoma
College of Optometry. She teaches Clinical Methods III, a course on ocular health
assessment, to the second-year students in the fall, Pediatrics to the second-year
students in the spring, Functional Analysis to the third-year students in the summer,
and Strabismus & Amblyopia to the third-year students in the spring. When not teaching
class, you will find her supervising students at school screenings, in vision therapy
clinic, or in infant vision clinic. To date, Dr. Proctor is the Infant Vision Clinic
Chief, the Primary Care/Ocular Disease Residency Supervisor, and the faculty liaison
for COVD. She is also the faculty advisor for Student Volunteer Optometric Services
to Humanity (SVOSH) and has taken optometric mission trips to Roatan, Honduras, the
Brazilian Amazon River and Nigeria, Africa. She enjoys volunteering at Special Olympics
Opening Eyes. Dr. Proctor came to Tahlequah in 2005 to complete a Family Practice
Residency. She is a graduate of the Michigan College of Optometry at Ferris State
University and is married to Dr. Jason Proctor, Assistant Professor at NSU and the
2015 Oklahoma Teacher of the Year. They have two children, Jaxon and Ashtyn.
