Summer 2012, Volume 37, Number 3 - Association of Schools and ...

OPTOMETRIC
EDUCATION
ISSN 1933-8880
VOL. 37
NO. 3
SUMMER
2012
The Journal of the Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry
FEATURES AND DEPARTMENTS
Industry News
Editorial
Getting Involved in Our Profession: A
Tribute to Dr. Irvin Borish
Aurora Denial, OD, FAAO
The 2012 Educational Starter Grant
Program
Five grant winners announced
The Dr. Lester Janoff Award for Writing
Excellence
ASCO’s Janoff Award to be presented
in 2013
Think Tank
What is the impact on a profession when
a scholarly journal is retired?
ASCO Student Award in Clinical
Ethics
Daniel Harker, OD
ASCOTech
Khan Academy and “Flipping the
Classroom”
James Kundart OD, MEd, FAAO
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Images on the cover:
1) Dr. Borish with members of the University of Houston College of
Optometry class of 2013
(Photo courtesy of UHCO, David Gee photographer)
2) Dr. Borish (standing) and his father in 1929, just before Irvin left
for Temple University
3) Accepting the AOA’s Apollo Award from John Suggs in 1968
4) Inspecting the exam area in clinic at the Kituchi College of
Optometry in Nagoya, Japan
5) Delivering the Max Schapero Memorial Lecture at the AAO
annual meeting in 1987 (Photos reprinted with permission from
Borish by William R. Baldwin, 2006 Bassette Co., Springfield,
Mass.)
ARTICLES
Comparing Proportional Estimates of
U.S. Optometrists by Race and Ethnicity
with Population Census Data
Elizabeth Edmiston Chen, MBA, MPH,
FAAO
The purpose of this paper is to characterize optometrists
in the United States based on race and
ethnicity. A 40-year record of students enrolled in
doctor of optometry programs in the United States
was used to estimate proportions, which were then
compared with Census 2010 data. Black and Hispanic
optometrists comprise a substantially lower
proportion when compared with the population.
Non-Hispanic White and Asian optometrists are a
higher proportion than the population. This is the
first effort to estimate the racial and ethnic mix of
the profession. Understanding the demographics of
the optometric profession is important in planning
the educational pipeline of future optometrists, both
for recruitment of any under-represented groups
and for development of curricula to bridge patient
or clinician perceptions leading to unintended bias
in clinical care. These biases can originate
from the patient or from the clinician.
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Optometric Education 89 Volume 37, Number 3 / Summer 2012