Doctors of Optometry excluded from the National Health Service Corps (NHSC)

[Shnurek]

Promote vision and eye care: http://fs.aoa.org/email/newsletters_2012/eotf/pdf/NHSCHR1195S2192.pdf

The retina is the only place in the body that neurological tissue and vascular tissue is directly visible without any scanning or cutting of the flesh.

List of diseases that can be detected by a Doctor of Optometry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_systemic_diseases_with_ocular_manifestations

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[captaindargo]

so is podiatry...

 

[SnowyRox]

It's not a Doctor of Optometry... it's an Optometry Doctor... right? The initials are OD.

 

[mkhuc]

Yeah, I was sad to find this out because my GF is in Opto school and I was trying to find a loan-repayment program that we could both do. I did find that the Indian one did include OD's too, correct?