Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 852 - BOARD OF OPTOMETRY › Division 70 - CONTINUING OPTOMETRIC EDUCATION › Section 852-070-0010 - Requirement of Continuing Optometric Education

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
The Oregon Board of Optometry is committed to ensuring the
				continuing education of its licensees for the protection, safety and wellbeing
				of the public. Continuing education is required to maintain and advance the
				professional skills and abilities of licensees and to educate optometric
				physicians in the application and use of new techniques, scientific and
				clinical advances and the achievements of research to ensure expansive and
				comprehensive care to the public.
(1)
			 Every active status licensed optometric physician must complete at least 18
			 hours of clinical optometric courses each license year as a condition of
			 license renewal. Continuing education hours cover 12-month periods and must be
			 reported with license renewal applications. Upon written request, the licensee
			 may carry forward approved excess CE hours completed in the prior license year
			 to the current license year.
(2) Of
			 the required 18 hours, at least nine hours each license year must be in the
			 area of diagnosis, treatment and management of ocular disease (TMOD). The
			 licensee must be the first or second author of the article or paper and the
			 paper must have been published in the CE reporting period.
(3) Optometric physicians must complete one
			 hour of approved credit for an optometric ethics or Oregon law course every
			 other license year, regardless of credits carried forward under (1) of this
			 section. Licensees may receive one hour of optometric ethics/Oregon law credit
			 per year for verified attendance of at least one hour at an official meeting of
			 the Oregon Board of Optometry. One hour of law/ethics credit is granted for
			 passing the Oregon law exam.
(4)
			 One hour of Board approved, COPE approved or Oregon Health Authority approved
			 cultural competency continuing education may be used toward satisfying the
			 required number of non-TMOD hours each license year. All licensees must
			 complete at least 1 hour of cultural competency education for every other
			 license renewal.
(5) Credit will be
			 given for no more than five hours of clinical or surgical observation per
			 license year. No credit will be granted for observation in the licensee's
			 primary practice or in any practice locations affiliated with the
			 licensee.
(6) The required hours of
			 continuing education used to meet the CE requirement each license year must be
			 of different course content. When the Board determines that a licensee has
			 submitted a course or lecture essentially identical to another presentation
			 submitted for credit in the same license renewal period, credit will be given
			 for only one.
(7) Credit will be
			 given for no more than 2 hours for each publication of a qualifying article or
			 paper.
(8) New Licensees are
			 required to complete the Oregon Pain Management 1 hour training offered by the
			 Oregon Health Authority and report at their first license renewal. Existing
			 licensees must complete at least 1 hour of pain management education every
			 other license renewal, regardless of credits carried forward under (1) of this
			 section. Existing licensees may complete the Oregon Pain Management 1 hour
			 training offered by the Oregon Health Authority or other pain management
			 courses approved by the Board. The Board will accept COPE approved pain
			 courses, unless they are in categories EJ or PM.
(9) Of the 18 required hours, licensees can
			 report up to five hours of in-person, U.S. based CME courses per license
			 renewal. Acceptable courses must be ACCME accredited, be in AMA PRA Category 1
			 and be acceptable in the TMOD category per OAR 852-070-0010(2).
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 683 & 182
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS
				  683.140,
				  683.270,
				  683.210 &
				  182.466