Program Length	12 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	$30,000
ASCO information sheet	https://myasco.opted.org/searchEngines/residency_details.aspx?id=64

 

The mission of the Residency in Ocular Disease with emphasis in Low Vision Rehabilitation is to provide advanced clinical training for post-graduate optometrists with a primary emphasis in ocular disease, and a secondary emphasis in low vision rehabilitation, allowing residents, upon completion of the program, to pursue professional opportunities which require a high level of clinical expertise.

 

Goal A 
Provide appropriately supervised clinical educational experiences with a primary emphasis in the area of ocular disease and a secondary emphasis in low vision rehabilitation.

Objectives:

1. Provide the resident experience in managing a total of at least 1,000 patients, including at least 100 patients for low vision rehabilitation.
2. Provide the resident exposure to a broad diversity of clinical conditions within ocular disease/low vision rehabilitation area.
3. Encourage appropriate referral and co-management of patients with other health care providers, especially those who work in the vision rehabilitation field.
4. The resident will demonstrate proficiency in conducting low vision rehabilitation evaluations, determining individual patient needs, and prescribing vision assistive devices appropriate to each patient's needs.
5. Participate in the clinical supervision and education of optometry students.

Goal B
Stimulate scholarly development in the resident.

Objectives:

1. Encourage lecture and workshop presentations in the form of continuing education, grand rounds, optometry classroom, etc .
2. Stimulate life-long learning by keeping the resident active in critically reviewing ophthalmic literature, especially literature relating to vision rehabilitation
3. Allow and encourage the resident to participate in didactic activities such as attending continuing education courses.
4. Require completion of a research paper, literature review, or case report of publishable quality by the end of the residency program.

Goal C
Stimulate a commitment to service to the community and the profession in the resident.

Objectives:

1. Encourage the resident's active involvement in the optometric and low vision rehabilitation professional communities by encouraging membership and participation in optometric and other professional organizations.

 

 

You must register for ORMatch ( ORMS Application Form) in order to send applications to residencies. All core application materials listed below are submitted online using the ORMatch Application Service. Once you submit an application, the residency will have access to your application information immediately. Submitted applications cannot be changed or withdrawn. The Director of Residencies at the residency's affiliated school or college of optometry will also have access to your application information.

• Curriculum vitae
  
  • Education (institution, dates, major, degree or pending degree, and grade point average)
  • List of Honors, Awards
  • Professional Memberships
  • Research Projects and Publication
  • Special Presentations, Seminars and Teaching Experience
  • Employment
  • Community Service
  • Other Professional Experiences
• Statement of interest
  Discuss:
  
  • Why are you interested in pursuing a residency?
  • What do you hope to gain from a residency?
  • What are your plans after you complete a residency?
• Three letters of recommendation
  • These letters should be from individuals who can assess your clinical performance, scholastic abilities and/or teaching and research potential. Recommendation letters may be emailed or mailed by post, but must be signed and be on official letterhead .
• A copy of your optometry school transcripts (an final official copy sent directly from the school will be required if accepted into the program)
• Passing score on NBEO Parts I and II and TMOD to participate in Match; Part III passage is required by start of residency program
• Please provide an unofficial copy of your current NBEO scores. ORMatch will send an official copy on your behalf. Successful completion of Parts I, II, III and TMOD of NBEO examinations is required to enter all NSUOCO affiliated residencies.
• ORMS Application
• Interview recommended
• Doctor of Optometry degree from an ACOE-accredited school or college of optometry
• License eligible in the state of Oklahoma
  
  

All application information should be sent to the Director of Residencies, Dr. Carolyn Majcher director of residencies via email or mail to:

Northeastern State University Oklahoma College of Optometry
ATTN: Residency Director
1001 North Grand Avenue Tahlequah, OK 74464-7017

As application materials are received by the school, they will be forwarded to the site the applicant is applying at. Arrange an interview. Each applicant is strongly encouraged to arrange an interview at the residency site to which they are applying. This allows the applicant to become more familiar with the residency site and the residency supervisor to become familiar with the applicant. If you have any questions about the application process, please contact either Britney Mason(mason09@nsuok.edu) or the Director of Residencies, Dr. Carolyn Majcher director of residencies

 

 

• 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
• Accrual of personal leave (which includes sick leave, personal business leave, bereavement leave, military leave and jury duty leave) at the rate of 12 hours per month
• 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 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.
• Health insurance