Do Optometrists get board Certified? Help need answer fast!

[JKaiser]

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Do optometrists get board Certified? Has the NBEO, AOA come up with definitions to that? I'm confussed!

 

[hello07]

From my understanding there is no Board certification for optometrists. You become licensed to practice with therapeutics invloved according to each and every state. You can become a Diplomate in several sections of Optometry and of course also become a Fellow.
There is no sense of Board certification.
Here we go.......................another fight coming with what I said.........

 

[cpw]

They allow us to say Board Certified in Florida because they make us take an entirely different written exam from the NBEO and a seperate clinical exam in front of Florida examiners.

 

[JKaiser]

Good feedback, Thanks.

 

[Ben Chudner]

From my understanding there is no Board certification for optometrists. You become licensed to practice with therapeutics invloved according to each and every state. You can become a Diplomate in several sections of Optometry and of course also become a Fellow.
There is no sense of Board certification.
Here we go.......................another fight coming with what I said.........

No fight. What you said sounds correct. The AOA tried to implement board certification several years ago but the membership rejected it. There are rumors that it may come up again.

 

[IndianaOD]

In my understanding some states allow ODs to call themselves "board certified" because all ODs pass the National Boards examination, more specifically in ocular disease and theraputics.

However, OD and MD nomenclature is much different. For example an OD is ready to practice upon graduation and can accept insurance. A ophthalmology resident cannot bill insurance unless an OMD or OD signs off. At least at IU that's how it was.

For example in MD speak my optometric residency was more comparable to a fellowship.

 

[KHE]

In my understanding some states allow ODs to call themselves "board certified" because all ODs pass the National Boards examination, more specifically in ocular disease and theraputics.

However, OD and MD nomenclature is much different. For example an OD is ready to practice upon graduation and can accept insurance. A ophthalmology resident cannot bill insurance unless an OMD or OD signs off. At least at IU that's how it was.

For example in MD speak my optometric residency was more comparable to a fellowship.

I don't know about that.....in medicine, a fellowship is generally done after completion of a residency. The year after graduation in medicine is generally an internship year.

While it may be true that optometry is already somewhat of a specialized field as compared to medicine, and therefore one year of training in a more focused discipline may be somewhat analagous to a medical fellowship, I would be careful throwing that term around.

 

[IndianaOD]

I don't know about that.....in medicine, a fellowship is generally done after completion of a residency. The year after graduation in medicine is generally an internship year.

While it may be true that optometry is already somewhat of a specialized field as compared to medicine, and therefore one year of training in a more focused discipline may be somewhat analagous to a medical fellowship, I would be careful throwing that term around.

I don't really care about the terminology, but my university badge said post doctoral fellow on it.