title: The expanding scope of practice and the optometric curriculum.
abstract: The expansion of the scope of optometric practice has put tremendous pressures on the curricula of the optometric teaching institutions. The pressures and the solutions that have been proposed in the optometric literature are outlined. The possibility of eliminating portions of the curriculum that have traditionally been regarded as the educational foundation of the practice of optometry and what effect this would have on the very definition of the term "optometry" is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, OK 74464.
authors.forename: D K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Penisten
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D009907:Optometry / Q000193:education*; D014481:United States