Berman M S
Southern California College of Optometry, Fullerton.
Optom Vis Sci. 1994 Feb;71(2):87-90. doi: 10.1097/00006324-199402000-00005.
The Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry (ASCO) and the American Optometric Association (AOA) jointly sponsored a national meeting in July 1992 for the primary purpose of developing a curriculum model for optometric education. The conference was the third in the "Summit in Optometric Education" series and attracted 138 national and international leaders representing organized optometry and academia. This paper discusses the conference framework and presents outcomes as determined by conferee summary reports, postconference surveys, and interviews. There is evidence that the conference produced several successful outcomes that could benefit future educational planners. The task of designing a curriculum with learning objectives, using the innovative outcomes-based education (OBE) approach, was achieved. The conferees identified the importance of refocusing optometry graduate programs to include a greater emphasis in the biological sciences in order to produce educators and researchers for the changing profession. In addition the workshops on alternate teaching strategies, including problem-based learning, raised awareness amongst educators and practitioners of nontraditional options for presenting an ever-expanding information base within the confines of a 4-year professional curriculum.
验光学校与学院协会（ASCO）和美国验光协会（AOA）于1992年7月联合主办了一次全国性会议，其主要目的是制定验光教育的课程模式。该会议是“验光教育峰会”系列的第三次会议，吸引了138位代表验光行业组织和学术界的国内外领导人。本文讨论了会议框架，并呈现了参会者总结报告、会后调查及访谈所确定的成果。有证据表明，该会议取得了若干成功成果，可能会使未来的教育规划者受益。采用基于创新成果的教育（OBE）方法设计具有学习目标的课程这一任务得以完成。参会者认识到重新调整验光研究生课程重点的重要性，以便在不断变化的行业中培养教育工作者和研究人员，在生物科学方面给予更大的重视。此外，关于包括基于问题的学习在内的替代教学策略的研讨会，提高了教育工作者和从业者对在4年制专业课程范围内呈现不断扩展的信息库的非传统选项的认识。
