Title 505:1-5-11 to Title 505:1-5-12

• (a) Every Optometrist must cause to be filed with the Board not later than June 30th of each year, beginning 2017 proof showing that during the preceding year he/she attended not less than twenty-five (25) hours of continuing medical education (CME) or an affidavit showing that he was unavoidably prevented, because of sickness or for some other reason satisfactory to the Board, from attending any such educational or post-graduate program. Of the twenty-five (25) required annually, up to six (6) hours of remote learning, up to six (6) hours of practice management and a minimum of one (1) hour shall be judicious prescribing of dangerous drugs and controlled dangerous substances provided by the Oklahoma Association of Optometric Physicians or Northeastern State University Oklahoma College of Optometry.
• (b) The Board approves the following vendors providing continuing medical education (CME) provided the faculty or staff of each vendor substantially develops and presents the program and the program is free from any appearance of commercialism:
  1. Optometry college accredited by the American Optometric Council on Education
  2. American Optometric Association, or an affiliate of the American Optometric Association
  3. College of Optometrists in Vision Development
  4. Southeast Council of Optometry (SECO)
  5. Oklahoma Association of Optometric Physicians
  6. Great Western Council of Optometry (GWCO)
  7. Heart of America Contact Lens Society
  8. American Academy of Optometry (AAO), or any affiliate of the AAO
  9. State Optometric Associations of the United States
• (c) Any Optometrist desiring approval of any other continuing medical education (CME) must make a written request for approval to Office of the Board of Examiners in Optometry at least fifteen (15) days before he/she attends such program.
• (d) Simultaneously with the requirement of this rule, every Optometrist shall not later than June 30, 2017 and each year thereafter file with the Board evidence that he or she has a current cardiopulmonary resuscitation card issued by the American Red Cross, or equivalent training.

It Shall Be The Ideal, The Reserve, And The Duty of Each Optometrist in Oklahoma:

1. TO KEEP the visual welfare of the patient uppermost at all times
2. TO PROMOTE in every possible way, in collaboration with this Board, better care of the visual needs of mankind;
3. TO ENHANCE continuously their educational and technical proficiency to the end that their patients shall receive the benefits of all acknowledged improvements in visual care;
4. TO SEE THAT no person shall lack for visual care, regardless of his financial status;
5. TO ADVISE the patient whenever consultation with an optometric colleague or reference for other professional care seems advisable;
6. TO HOLD professional confidence all information concerning a patient and to use such data only for the benefit of the patient;
7. TO CONDUCT themselves as exemplary citizens;
8. TO MAINTAIN their offices and their practices in keeping with professional standards;
9. TO PROMOTE and maintain cordial and unselfish relationships with members of their own profession and of their professions for the exchange of information to the advantage of mankind;
10. TO BE ACCOUNTABLE to and to refrain from any appearance of negligence of a patient;
11.  TO BE AVAILABLE and responsive to a patient for consultation on his or her visual care;
12. TO CONDUCT their practices in total independence from any corporation, firm, company, entity, or non-licensed lay person; except that an optometrist may incorporate a practice under the Professional Corporation Act as provided by law;
13. TO PRACTICE in his or her own name and to avoid any appearance of affiliation which might confuse or mislead members of the public, in any manner, with any retail optical concern or outlet.