Course Description
(5 day course -- 35 hours Continuing Education)
Prerequisite: None
For: Optometrists
The Behavioral Vision Care (BVC) course has been the entry point into
behavioral vision care for many optometrists
worldwide. Vision is the
dominant process in humans and the BVC course is built upon this.
The attendees learn
the core philosophy and how to
put it into action. This includes understanding an expanded
definition of “vision”
as well as “function alters
structure” and “most visual problems are problems of omission.”
Attendees typically come
away with a much broader
understanding of the development of various refractive conditions
and how to
either prevent future negative
shifts or how to guide the patient to less adapted visual
conditions. Prescribing
patterns are usually altered
significantly so that the attendee knows how to use lenses in a much
more powerful way.
When can you prescribe something
other than what you measure? When should you prescribe something
other
than what you measure? How far
can you deviate from your measurements in either the amount of
sphere or cylinder
power or the cylinder axis or
the amount of aniso? Why would you ever prescribe a lens through
which a person
does not see optimally sharp
through? Why would some people have trouble adjusting to a
prescription through which
they see optimally well? What
lenses optimize visual performance? Why would one ever prescribe
prisms with the
bases in the same direction
(yoked prisms)? These questions and many more are dealt with
directly in the first
course of the core curriculum.
Behavioral vision care has grown well beyond the Black Book Analytical.
This course provides the participants with
answers to the question “Why?”
while providing the scientific and neurological basis for
understanding human
behavior. Participants will
emerge with a new respect for the power of lenses as well as
understanding the process
and underlying physiological
changes as patients build refractive and other visual conditions.
Rather than being
given a cook book approach to
diagnosis and treatment, the goal of this course is the nurturing of
master chefs of
behavioral vision care.
- Identifying the unmet visual needs of your patients.
- A comprehensive study of behavioral optometry and the benefits it
offers over general optometry.
- "What Is Vision?," a discussion of the conceptual model
underlying vision and the visual process.
- The behavioral vision exam -- one participant will be examined to
demonstrate the ease with which the analytical
gives insight
into the patient's visual needs.
- "Milking" the analytical -- a step-by-step discussion of each
diagnostic test, how to do it, why to do it, how to
record it, and
what it tells us about the patient.
- Stress recovery, embeddedness, visual adaptations, problem
solving, and other behavioral insights will be discussed
in detail.
- Stress Point Retinoscopy -- a critically important tool will be
demonstrated and taught.
- The relationship between posture & vision, from which a
comprehensive understanding of the development of
astigmatism ,
and the use of yoked prisms will emerge from.
- The alternatives of care and how to present them includes an in
depth look at compensatory lenses, lens treatment,
and vision
therapy.
- The art and science of prescribing -- when to deviate from the
subjective, why and how to prescribe for near.
- Key practice management techniques to get you rolling right away.
Building a successful behavioral optometric
practice
through communication -- reports, updates, in-office seminars,
external speaking engagements.
- Each participant will receive a Behavioral Vision Care I Manual
which includes suggested readings and report
samples and
more.
* Courses begin at 9:00 am each morning and will finish at 5:00 PM.
On the last day of the course we begin at
9:00 am
and generally finish by 3:00 PM. Lunch is included in your tuition.
(NOTE:
If you have special dietary considerations please let us know at the
time you make your reservation.)

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