Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 46 - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDS › Part LI - Optometrists › Chapter 3 - License › Section LI-301 - Continuing Education

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. Each
				licensed optometrist shall comply with the following continuing education
				requirements.
1. Standard optometry license
				holders and diagnostic pharmaceutical certificate holders shall complete
				between January 1 and December 31 of each calendar year at least 12 hours of
				continuing education courses., of which a minimum of 10 hours must be obtained
				in a classroom setting, approved by the Louisiana State Board of Optometry
				Examiners; provided, however, a minimum of 9 of 12 hours must be obtained in a
				classroom setting in the calendar year in which an optometrist holding a
				controlled dangerous substance license satisfies the one-time continuing
				education requirement for controlled dangerous substances set forth in
				§303
2. License holders authorized to diagnose and
				treat pathology and use and prescribe therapeutic pharmaceutical agents shall
				complete between January 1 and December 31 of each calendar year at least 16
				hours of continuing education courses., of which a minimum of 14 hours must be
				obtained in a classroom setting, approved by the Louisiana State Board of
				Optometry Examiners, and of which at least eight classroom hours shall consist
				of matters related to ocular and systemic pharmacology and current diagnosis
				and treatment of ocular disease; provided, however, a minimum of 13 of 16 hours
				must be obtained in a classroom setting in the calendar year in which an
				optometrist holding a controlled dangerous substance license satisfies the
				one-time continuing education requirement for controlled dangerous substances
				set forth in
				§303 Such certificate holders will be
				entitled to apply the CPR continuing education to their required annual
				continuing education, provided that such CPR continuing education shall not
				count toward the required eight classroom hours related to ocular and system
				pharmacology and current diagnosis and treatment of ocular disease, and
				provided further that no more than two hours of CPR continuing education may be
				applied to the continuing education requirement in any two calendar year
				periods. The eight hours of continuing education relating to ocular and
				systemic pharmacology and/or current diagnosis and treatment of ocular disease
				shall be obtained solely from the following sources:
a. the American Optometric
				Association;
b. any state
				optometric association affiliated with the American Optometric
				Association;
c. Great Western
				Council of Optometry, Mountain West Council of Optometrists, North Central
				States Optometric Council, and Southern Council of Optometrists;
d. the American Academy of Optometry;
				or
e. schools and colleges of
				optometry accredited by the American Optometric Association Accreditation
				Council on Optometric Education.
3. For the 2020 calendar year:
a. all continuing education (CE) requirements
				are waived, and no action is required to receive this hardship CE exemption for
				the upcoming March 1, 2021, license renewal.
4. For the 2021 calendar year:
a. all continuing education (CE) requirements
				remain in effect.