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ASCRS launches new collaborative educational program for ODs
The American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery announced that it will offer a new nonsurgical educational program, the Integrated Ophthalmic-Managed Eyecare Delivery Model, designed to improve collaboration of optometry and ophthalmology with the objective of improving the delivery of eye care, according to a society press release.
The program model is patient-centered and encourages greater efficiency and coordination of care between ophthalmologists and optometrists to meet the growing demands for service, to address the pending changes in Medicare and health care delivery and to meet the needs of the 77 million American baby boomers nearing retirement age, according to the release.
To be eligible to register for this program, optometrists must be employed by an ophthalmologist, a medical school that is not a college of optometry, a managed care provider, the military, a manufacturer or a corporate center, said the release.
Courses in the IOMED track will include topics such as management of the postoperative patient, identifying risk factors for postoperative LASIK ectasia, topographical analysis, premium IOL discussion, comanagement and IOL power calculations, among others.
The program will be held during the ASCRS Symposium on Cataract, IOL and Refractive Surgery and the American Society of Ophthalmic Administrators Congress on Ophthalmic Practice Management, held jointly in San Francisco, April 19 to 23, the release said.