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Responsibilities

• - Perform consultations for pre/post-operative exams
• - Patient education on cataract and refractive surgery options, IOL calculations, and consents
• - Ordering and resulting images
• - Authorize and review medication requests
• - Provide visual examinations, identify presence of pathology, and provide treatment of the visual system within the scope of optometric licensure, including writing prescriptions for spectacles
• - Code and bill for examinations
• - Answer patient emails, phone calls, and portal messages

Qualifications

• - Possession and maintenance of an active license to practice optometry from the California Board of Optometry
• - Exceptional oral and written communication skills including knowledge of medical and ophthalmic terminology to establish effective working relations with all levels of university staff, faculty,trainees, and patients
• - Ability to work in a cooperative and collegial fashion with other members of the Division to provide exemplary patient care
• - Ability to work quickly and efficiently under a variable but often very busy workload
• - Ability to function in a research environment with patients who are enrolled in clinical study protocols
• - Ability to learn new routines quickly, to follow routines consistently, and identify better ways of accomplishing routine tasks
• - Proficiency in Apple and Windows operating systems, Microsoft Word and Excel, email, calendaring programs, and web browsers
• - Demonstrated or acquired competency in office and medical center based data and electronic records systems (ChartLogic,Epic/Kaleidoscope, etc.)

Education Requirements