Description: Supervised field experience in clinical health care setting designed to emphasize role of dispensing optician. Students assigned to clinical sites under direct supervision of licensed optician. Students take on advanced responsibilities and have more input into decision making process. Required to demonstrate advanced assessment skills in patient care, business management, and assume more individual responsibility as member of optical team. Attend office meetings and seminars that relate to decision process, and have input into that process.
Prerequisites: OPT-2861 Optical Practicum I, and concurrent enrollment in OPT-2980 Optical Practicum Seminar II.
Hours: 3 Other: Practicum Experience: 336 hours per semester (16 weeks).
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