Scope of practice in the year 2015?

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Hi Everyone,

I am in the process of applying to Pacific. One of their essay question is "Please speculate on what the scope of optometry will include in the year 2015." For those of you who have been practicing, what are your thoughts on this. I've talked to the optometrist I work for about this subject but I want to get other's opinions on this. Please help me out. Also, for current students or alumni why did you chose Pacific over other school besides location? Any comment is appreciated! Thanks.

 

[sethuel1]

Hi Everyone,

I am in the process of applying to Pacific. One of their essay question is "Please speculate on what the scope of optometry will include in the year 2015." For those of you who have been practicing, what are your thoughts on this. I've talked to the optometrist I work for about this subject but I want to get other's opinions on this. Please help me out. Also, for current students or alumni why did you chose Pacific over other school besides location? Any comment is appreciated! Thanks.

Tell them you think the Nuclear Holocaust of 2012-13 will change the scope of all medical practice drastically, and that you anticipate being placed on a government mission to develop lead eye shields.

 

[qwopty99]

"Please speculate on what the scope of optometry will include in the year 2015."

the scope of optometry will include ophthalmology.

 

[Northerner]

the scope of optometry will include ophthalmology.

Since there's a cackling smiley face at the end, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you're completely joking and realize there's no way in hell that'll be the case.

 

[PBEA]

Since there's a cackling smiley face at the end, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you're completely joking and realize there's no way in hell that'll be the case.

Actually the terms "optometry" and "ophthalmology" are semantics for eyecare. I guess you are already in "hell" then?

 

[PChemGrad]

The Optometry field will be taken over by techs. just like gp medicine is being over by nurses. A bigger scope of practice for the assistances, while the Docs have to find something else to do.

 

[VA Hopeful Dr]

Since there's a cackling smiley face at the end, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you're completely joking and realize there's no way in hell that'll be the case.

You're awfully up tight about this. Did an OD run over your dog or something?

Relax. He was joking.

 

[Northerner]

Actually the terms "optometry" and "ophthalmology" are semantics for eyecare. I guess you are already in "hell" then?

Getting there.

You're awfully up tight about this. Did an OD run over your dog or something?

Relax. He was joking.

Someone's got a guilty conscience! You ran over someone's dog, didn't you?!

 

[jefguth]

Hi Everyone,

I am in the process of applying to Pacific. One of their essay question is "Please speculate on what the scope of optometry will include in the year 2015." For those of you who have been practicing, what are your thoughts on this. I've talked to the optometrist I work for about this subject but I want to get other's opinions on this. Please help me out. Also, for current students or alumni why did you chose Pacific over other school besides location? Any comment is appreciated! Thanks.

I would consider addressing the scope differences state to state, and speculate that that hopefully by that time there would be a uniform (or nearly) nation scope of practice. Possibly even a retraction of scope in certain states for the benefit of uniformity and cooperation. However, that's a tall order and its beginning to feel like 2015 is just around the corner.

Above all, try to consider benefits and repercussions and try not to write anything too unpalatable for the reader and avoid suggesting anything offensive to other professionals.

 

[drgregory]

Hi Everyone,

I am in the process of applying to Pacific. One of their essay question is "Please speculate on what the scope of optometry will include in the year 2015." For those of you who have been practicing, what are your thoughts on this. I've talked to the optometrist I work for about this subject but I want to get other's opinions on this. Please help me out. Also, for current students or alumni why did you chose Pacific over other school besides location? Any comment is appreciated! Thanks.

with hiliary running the show, 2015 will be one of the first implementation years for socialized medicine. hospital and clinic incomes will sharply fall. all doctoral level providers, including dentists if brought under the umbrella, will see double the amount of patients, but generate only 20% of the previous revenue per patient. delegation to RNs/technicians will be sought and administered. ODs, since they are not surgeons, will generally become decision makers for primary eye care. ophthalmologists, now overwhelmed with everyone getting their now "free" cataract surgery and blepharoplasty, will be tied up in surgery, and doing so for a fraction of what the value of their services are worth as well. you'll see deep paths leading to cosmetic or bariatric clinics - those paths will be the result of MDs of various specialties moonlighting at these clinics, in hopes to make enough income to feed their families.
or, the healthcare system will be just as it is now. optometrists will have the same scope, its just that they will continue to not use the skills they have trained to develop. why would they - most work at the shopping mall and are not restricted by their scope, but instead their "district manager".

 

[VA Hopeful Dr]

Someone's got a guilty conscience! You ran over someone's dog, didn't you?!

I'm a med student, so naturally I try to run over lawyers' dogs.

Just exact your revenge on the ODs by putting a few magnetic Wal-Mart Optical bumper stickers are drgregory's car

I'd bet we could see the mushroom cloud from space.

 

[KHE]

Hi Everyone,

I am in the process of applying to Pacific. One of their essay question is "Please speculate on what the scope of optometry will include in the year 2015." For those of you who have been practicing, what are your thoughts on this. I've talked to the optometrist I work for about this subject but I want to get other's opinions on this. Please help me out. Also, for current students or alumni why did you chose Pacific over other school besides location? Any comment is appreciated! Thanks.

In my humble opinion.....

I do not feel the scope of practice of optometry will increase significantly by the year 2015 and I don't believe that it will ever expand to include "surgical" procedures. (By surgical, I mean the procedures that we all think of as "truly" surgical.....not punctal occlusion and foreign body removal)

The only "expansion" that I see feasible is for ODs to perform injections of chalazions and the performance of fluorescein angiography for diagnostic purposes. I do not foresee the use of lasers for any reason by the optometric profession.

None of this will matter however, because I stand by my opinion that optometry will end up essentially like pharmacy and the vast majority of ODs will end up working retail hours in retail locations, providing routine care to mostly healthy people despite the advanced education that they will receive.

 

[iiiimonica]

with hiliary running the show

because really that would mean her second term🙂 and I miss seeing Bill Clinton on tv everyday.


remember the buy one get one free buttons? oh those crazy 90's😍

 

[bournehall]

Optometry will move in the realm of refractive surgery. This will then bring us into cohabitation with ophthalmology. McDonald's will then add two windows to their current one which will allow you to push a button and stick your head into window 2 and get a refraction or push a different button and stick your head into window 3 and get your corneal refractive surgery. So life will improve because you can now get either a refraction or CRS with your fries.

Hi Everyone,

I am in the process of applying to Pacific. One of their essay question is "Please speculate on what the scope of optometry will include in the year 2015." For those of you who have been practicing, what are your thoughts on this. I've talked to the optometrist I work for about this subject but I want to get other's opinions on this. Please help me out. Also, for current students or alumni why did you chose Pacific over other school besides location? Any comment is appreciated! Thanks.