The Design Of Specialty Clinic Forms.

This project was done to help future optometry students develop the necessary
skills and procedures necessary to become a larger part of the primary health care
delivery team. With the up to date training and most current health care evaluation delivery system developed for ocular care, the following forms and papers were developed with the novice optometry student in mind. These forms and papers were created to be used as a learning tool within the optometry clinic at the Michigan College of Optometry.
These forms were created as templates for the students to follow as they examined
patients with special ocular conditions. The forms are very basic in that they may go to
extremes during the evaluation but are covering all of the comprehensive procedures
needed to elicit a complete exam in the particular specialty clinic. All of the procedures
cited on the examination forms may not be necessary for each particular exam, the form
acts as a template for suggested procedures that may help define a differential diagnosis.
While students use this form it is hoped that an imprint on there clinical thinking process
will be remembered as to what procedures can or may be done in order to help them with
a differential diagnosis. The hope is to teach the students a pattern of thinking that will
stick with them during there professional careers. All of the examination forms were created through research of each topic and by viewing the examining forms of other specialist within each area. After the data and research were gathered the forms were created as a composite of the latest standards of care coupled with the forms of the specialists and latest research data.