Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 46 - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDS
Part LI - Optometrists
Chapter 3 - License
Section LI-301 - Continuing Education
Universal Citation: LA Admin Code LI-301
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 3, March 20, 2024
A. Each licensed optometrist shall comply with the following continuing education requirements.
1. Standard optometry license
holders and diagnostic pharmaceutical certificate holders shall complete
between January 1 and December 31 of each calendar year at least 12 hours of
continuing education courses., of which a minimum of 10 hours must be obtained
in a classroom setting, approved by the Louisiana State Board of Optometry
Examiners; provided, however, a minimum of 9 of 12 hours must be obtained in a
classroom setting in the calendar year in which an optometrist holding a
controlled dangerous substance license satisfies the one-time continuing
education requirement for controlled dangerous substances set forth in
§303
2. License holders authorized to diagnose and
treat pathology and use and prescribe therapeutic pharmaceutical agents shall
complete between January 1 and December 31 of each calendar year at least 16
hours of continuing education courses., of which a minimum of 14 hours must be
obtained in a classroom setting, approved by the Louisiana State Board of
Optometry Examiners, and of which at least eight classroom hours shall consist
of matters related to ocular and systemic pharmacology and current diagnosis
and treatment of ocular disease; provided, however, a minimum of 13 of 16 hours
must be obtained in a classroom setting in the calendar year in which an
optometrist holding a controlled dangerous substance license satisfies the
one-time continuing education requirement for controlled dangerous substances
set forth in
§303 Such
certificate holders will be entitled to apply the CPR continuing education to
their required annual continuing education, provided that such CPR continuing
education shall not count toward the required eight classroom hours related to
ocular and system pharmacology and current diagnosis and treatment of ocular
disease, and provided further that no more than two hours of CPR continuing
education may be applied to the continuing education requirement in any two
calendar year periods. The eight hours of continuing education relating to
ocular and systemic pharmacology and/or current diagnosis and treatment of
ocular disease shall be obtained solely from the following sources:
a. the American Optometric
Association;
b. any state
optometric association affiliated with the American Optometric
Association;
c. Great Western
Council of Optometry, Mountain West Council of Optometrists, North Central
States Optometric Council, and Southern Council of Optometrists;
d. the American Academy of Optometry;
or
e. schools and colleges of
optometry accredited by the American Optometric Association Accreditation
Council on Optometric Education.
3. For the 2020 calendar year:
a. all continuing education (CE) requirements
are waived, and no action is required to receive this hardship CE exemption for
the upcoming March 1, 2021, license renewal.
4. For the 2021 calendar year:
a. all continuing education (CE) requirements
remain in effect.
AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 37:1048.
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