Pediatric Optometry
Residency Program Description

This ACOE accredited residency program provides advanced training in the care of pediatric patients as well as using vision therapy as a treatment modality for various vision disorders. Residents will gain extensive experience in the diagnosis and management of anomalies of binocular vision and assessment of vision function. Specialty areas of infant vision, strabismus, amblyopia, visual perception, vision therapy, pediatric eye disease, head trauma, special needs, electrodiagnostic techniques will be explored. Residents work with other optometric specialties including contact lens, low vision and ocular disease, as well physicians, educators, psychologists, and other professionals in a diverse assortment of clinical and educational settings. This program is extremely flexible and can be adjusted to meet the resident’s needs and desires.

The Residency in Pediatrics will afford the resident with the opportunity for:

• Providing vision care to a large number of patients from varied socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds

• Direct patient care in the Pediatrics and Vision Therapy Services

• Direct pediatric patient care at off campus clinic location

• Supervision of third and fourth year students in the Pediatrics and Vision Therapy Services

• Participation in Emergency Care services

• Participation in Community Outreach Program which includes vision screening at local area public and private schools

• Weekly meetings and conferences with College of Optometry Pediatrics/Binocular Vision Service faculty

• Interaction with other health care professionals including ophthalmology, pediatric ophthalmology, neurology, occupational, physical and speech/language therapy and reading specialist

• Providing consultative services to College of Optometry faculty and other health care and education professionals

• Attendance at national and state conferences including but not limited to the College of Vision Development, American Academy of Optometry and American Optometric Association

• Participation in research and article authorship with College of Optometry faculty

• Lecturing in pediatric related courses and participate in laboratories related to those courses

While working at Southern College of Optometry, a resident will have the opportunity to work with a diverse and fantastic group of staff doctors. The pediatric faculty boasts of not one but two past COVD presidents, the editor of a major optometric journal, a current COVD board member, six fellows of the College of Vision Development, nine fellows of the American Academy of Optometry and have authored over 150 articles as a collective. Learn more about our pediatric faculty.

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