title: What should be the proper size and number of optometric schools?
abstract: The Health Professions Educational Assistance Act brought infusion of millions of dollars into optometric education at a time when the profession was ill prepared with inadequate space standards and cost studies. The profession presently faces the need to make major curricular changes at a time of severely constricted resources. Optometry, in a dynamic mode, needs to establish acceptable standards consistent with the profession's demands and goals for the 21st century.
authors.affiliation: Southern California College of Optometry, Fullerton 92631.
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Hopping
mesh_terms: D006280:Health Workforce / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D009907:Optometry / Q000193:education*; D012576:Schools, Health Occupations / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States