Practice management 1

This course will consist of two-hour lecture sessions once a week for ten weeks. It will cover the characteristics of a profession, history of optometry, legal limitations of Optometry, major Optometric Organizations, ethics of optometry practice, ethics and responsibilities of the healthcare practitioner, professional code of ethics and ethical issues that arise in the practice of Optometry. Ethical case studies will be presented here. Students are expected to make presentations in this course. Principles of human interpersonal skills and effective patient communication skills will also be taught in this course.