C RATI - FAAO
C RATI - FAAO
C RATI - FAAO
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Senior Ophthalmologist<br />
Advocates Continuing Education<br />
During the past two decades the urgent need for<br />
organized ophthalmology to support the advocacy<br />
of medical eye care on the state and federal levels<br />
has used funds that might otherwise have been<br />
earmarked for continuing education, which for<br />
years has been the primary mission of the American Academy of<br />
Ophthalmology. Advocacy has become a personal obligation of<br />
every ophthalmologist concerned about the socio-economic and<br />
political realities that face us.<br />
To ensure that ophthalmologists can continue to provide patients<br />
access to the highest quality of eye care, the Academy has sought<br />
a method to better fulfill its educational mission. The Academy<br />
Education Fund is intended to raise philanthropic support in order<br />
to advance ophthalmic education.<br />
The AAO must remain the most trusted, credible and relevant<br />
source of ophthalmic knowledge for its members. Our generation<br />
of senior ophthalmologists must help ensure that the present and<br />
the future generations of Eye MD’s will continue to represent the<br />
excellence for which the finest specialty in medicine is well known.<br />
-DAVID W. PARKE, MD<br />
OPHTHALMIC EDUCATION<br />
Ophthalmic Education supports the<br />
development of current and clinically<br />
relevant educational materials such as<br />
specialty clinical updates, Basic Clinical<br />
Science Courses (BCSC’s) and an easy-touse,<br />
ophthalmic knowledge base created<br />
by the Academy. Through this support, eye<br />
care doctors and professionals worldwide<br />
can obtain the educational resources<br />
necessary to improve eye care.<br />
THE ACADEMY EDUCATION FUND<br />
Knowledge of medical advances is a<br />
crucial component in providing patients<br />
with quality eye care. The Academy<br />
Education Fund supports research and<br />
development that expedites the transfer<br />
of critical ophthalmic knowledge<br />
and development of easy-to-use,<br />
educational products and services for<br />
ophthalmologists.