Clinical Decision Making in Optometry

Clinical Decision Making in Optometry provides the optometry student with the decision-making tools necessary to learn good practice skills. Part I introduces the student to the basic skills and issues that arise during clinical encounters. To support the learning process, the diagnosis of each case scenario in Part II is not presented until the end of the chapter. This allows each reader to explore the clinical reasoning narrated by the author and to arrive at his or her own objective diagnosis. Each case scenario concludes with a diagnostic algorithm that summarizes the decision-making process.

* ·Contributing authors assembled from the faculty of 10 of the 17 accredited U.S. optometry schools. *
· Extensive use of clinical case scenarios to teach the decision making process *
· Each case scenario is concluded with a flowchart illustrating thedecision making process

OD MS FAAO, Assocate Professor, State University of New York, State College of Optometry, USA