NEVADA BILL BECOMES LAW . 75 cut off no longer required!!!!

[JKaiser]

NEVADA BILL BECOMES LAW …. 75 cut off no longer required!!!!

The latest adjustments to the Nevada Legislature Bill concerning optometric licensing… *** The 75 cut off is no longer required. ***

http://www.optometry.nv.gov/license.htm
Nevada licensing information effective July 1st, 2007

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/32000.html
Nevada Population (~ 3,000,000) (~ 2,000,000 in Las Vegas!!!)

http://optometry.nv.gov/Qry-LicenseeInfoForm1.asp
Nevada Optometrists (~ 365)

Time to consider moving to LAS VEGAS!!!

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[prettygreeneyes]

NEVADA BILL BECOMES LAW …. 75 cut off no longer required!!!!

The latest adjustments to the Nevada Legislature Bill concerning optometric licensing… *** The 75 cut off is no longer required. ***

http://www.optometry.nv.gov/license.htm
Nevada licensing information effective July 1st, 2007

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/32000.html
Nevada Population (~ 3,000,000) (~ 2,000,000 in Las Vegas!!!)

http://optometry.nv.gov/Qry-LicenseeInfoForm1.asp
Nevada Optometrists (~ 365)

Time to consider moving to LAS VEGAS!!!

Well... Vegas isn't in my future... ever, but good news for us Northern Nevadans!

 

[eyestrain]

Hooray for no standards! After all, its damn near impossible to pull of a whopping 75% on boards.

 

[prettygreeneyes]

Hooray for no standards! After all, its damn near impossible to pull of a whopping 75% on boards.

No standards? Nevada was one of the few states that I've heard of that required a 75 on each subsection of each part in order to be licensed. You could miss the mark by a point or two in one subsection and still pass overall, and have to go back and take the entire exam again in order to practice here. You still have to pass all three parts of the NBEO much like many other states in the country. (You can find a central list of each state's licensing requirements here .)

 

[JKaiser]

Hooray for no standards! After all, its damn near impossible to pull of a whopping 75% on boards.

Hahah... Now Nevada has lowered its standards right down to YOUR state's level.

 

[KHE]

Hooray for no standards! After all, its damn near impossible to pull of a whopping 75% on boards.

The 75 required was not a raw score of 75. It was the scaled or percentile score.

 

[eyestrain]

Hahah... Now Nevada has lowered its standards right down to YOUR state's level.

Actually I haven't checked, but I assume you're right. I wish my state, and all states, would require some minimum score on boards. I'm a big fan of requiring minimum score for things, like a GPA cutoff for admission into optometry school. That idea certainly hasn't gone over well.

 

[eyestrain]

The 75 required was not a raw score of 75. It was the scaled or percentile score.

I know, I put the "%" there by mistake.

 

[KHE]

I know, I put the "%" there by mistake.

Then why claim that it isn't that hard to do? The whole point of the 75th percentile is that only 1 in 4 people achieve that score.

I got those scores and had a Nevada license, but to me it seems foolish to have requirements like that. Especially in a state where you can't use any of your training anyways because of insurance denials.

 

[prettygreeneyes]

Actually I haven't checked, but I assume you're right. I wish my state, and all states, would require some minimum score on boards. I'm a big fan of requiring minimum score for things, like a GPA cutoff for admission into optometry school. That idea certainly hasn't gone over well.

Actually, I would fully support a GPA cutoff for admission. I have no problem with minimum scores on things. However, in Nevada's case, I don't believe they were trying to protect the population by ensuring that only the finest optometrists were practicing here, I think it was a way to try and block competition by making it more difficult for optometrists to get licensed here. If the 75 cutoff was the rule and not the exception throughout the country, then perhaps I would feel differently.

 

[eyestrain]

Then why claim that it isn't that hard to do? The whole point of the 75th percentile is that only 1 in 4 people achieve that score.

I got those scores and had a Nevada license, but to me it seems foolish to have requirements like that. Especially in a state where you can't use any of your training anyways because of insurance denials.

I didn't think the 75 was a percentile. I thought it was some kind of scaled score that wound up being similar to a percent score. If those subset scores are all percentiles, I did significantly better than I thought I did. I guess I never paid that much attention to how the scores were reported, past that "P" or "F" part.

 

[Opii]

I didn't think the 75 was a percentile. I thought it was some kind of scaled score that wound up being similar to a percent score. If those subset scores are all percentiles, I did significantly better than I thought I did. I guess I never paid that much attention to how the scores were reported, past that "P" or "F" part.

How can someone with such lack of attention for detail pass the boards?

 

[eyestrain]

How can someone with such lack of attention for detail pass the boards?

Sometimes I wonder about that myself.

 

[JKaiser]

Retirement states have been known to have questionable standards. It's good to see somebody is looking out to standardize the reqirements througout the states, but I don't think it was AOA's doing. I think a large group of native optometrists must have been pissed off enough to complain to legisture about it. Getting a 73 in one subsection while getting 80s-90s in all the others in the 3 boards is nothing to be ashamed of and retaking a board you already passed is ridiculus. This law was keeping out one of my clinicians who is a yearly lecturer in the AAO. Perhaps this lecturer isn't up to eyestrain's high standards.

 

[Opii]

Hmmm

 

[JKaiser]

Hmmm

Can you elaborate?