Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4725 - Ohio Vision Professional Board › Chapter 4725-9 - Continuing Education › Section 4725-9-03 - Board approval of continuing education

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
Continuing education programs must meet the following
				requirements in order to receive board approval and credit.
(A) Optometrists:
(1) Programs shall relate to the practice of
			 optometry that will contribute to the advancement, extension and enhancement of
			 professional skill, clinical and scientific knowledge of the participants and
			 enable them to render continuously better and more comprehensive optometric
			 service to the recipients of their care.
(2) Speakers, lecturers and others
			 participating in the presentation of the programs must be recognized as
			 possessing requisite qualifications and being expert and of recognized repute
			 in their area of instruction.
(3)
			 Programs shall be available to all Ohio optometrists. Limitations may be
			 necessary based on space, time or format of presentation and must be so noted
			 on application. Any program that is too restrictive may be denied
			 approval.
(4) Programs cannot be
			 used to market the sponsors/presenters
			 products or services.
(5) The board
			 will not approve for continuing education credit for articles written by the
			 optometrist requesting the credit.
(6) The board, in its discretion, may approve
			 a sponsor's continuing education documentation for a presenter to receive
			 continuing education credit.
(7)
			 The presenter's credit will be the same number of hours as the actual
			 continuing education course. The maximum number of continuing education credits
			 earned per biennial CE year is twelve hours. The
			 continuing education credit earned shall be only one time per course with no
			 exceptions.
(8) Practice management
			 and/or ethics jurisprudence courses are approved for a maximum of four hours
			 continuing education credit.
(9)
			 Public health courses are approved for a maximum of three hours continuing
			 education credit in any one compliance year.
(10) Written home study or electronic media
			 (internet, webinars) courses will receive credit when the board is provided a
			 record showing results of tests given on the course which is graded by an
			 accredited optometric college or institution as approved by the board. No more
			 than thirty hours credit will be granted in this category
			 . This does not
			 preclude a presenter from using electronic media programs in conjunction with
			 their presentation.
(11) One hour
			 of credit requires at least fifty minutes of instruction.
(12) Cardiopulmonary resuscitation refresher
			 training is acceptable for up to three hours credit for any one continuing
			 education period once every two years. The three hours can be utilized for
			 pharmacology, continuing education
			 compliance.
(13) Grand rounds,
			 surgery observation, and other procedure oriented methods may be approved for
			 continuing education credit. No more than sixteen hours
			 credit will be granted in this category .
(14) Licensees may
			 be granted up to no more than sixteen hours credit each CE study year by providing
			 volunteer health care services to indigent and uninsured persons at a rate of
			 one credit hour for each sixty minutes spent providing volunteer health care
			 services in accordance with section
			 4745.04 of the Revised Code.
			 These services shall be performed without receiving any compensation or other
			 form of remuneration. Hours will not apply towards the
			 twenty
			 pharmacology hour requirement.
(15)
			 Approved educational programs include, but are not limited to, those
			 hereinafter listed. Approval is based on past performances and continued
			 maintenance of acceptable standards and must meet the applicable criteria set
			 forth in rule of the Administrative Code.
(a)
			 Educational courses and meetings of a nationally accredited college of
			 optometry.
(b) Educational courses
			 and meetings that are accredited by the accreditation council for continuing
			 medical education.
(c) Educational
			 courses and meetings approved by the council on optometric practitioner
			 education (COPE).
(d) Educational
			 courses and meetings certified/approved by a Canadian province or state
			 optometry board or its equivalent.
(e) Educational course and meetings provided
			 for licensed optometrist serving in the active guard, or reserve components of
			 the unifomed services of the United States. Approval shall be based on receipt
			 of a letter from the commanding officer certifying the training meets the
			 applicable requirements in rule of the Administrative Code.
(f) Other educational courses and meetings
			 that are approved by the board as meeting the applicable criteria in rule of
			 the Administrative Code, after submission of one copy of the application for
			 optometric continuing education credit. Requests for approval of continuing
			 education must be submitted by the sponsor and will not be considered if
			 submitted by an individual attendee.