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Board Approved Courses

The Council on Optometric Practitioner Education (COPE) divides the courses they approve into four specific categories. These categories are broken down further and utilize identifiers consisting of two alpha characters. The following should assist you in determining which COPE courses will be accepted by the Board as pharmacology.

Optometric only credit for these courses:

CLINICAL OPTOMETRY

Contact Lenses (CL)
Functional Vision/Pediatrics (FV)
General Optometry (GO)
Low Vision (LV)

Pharmacology credit for these courses:

OCULAR DISEASE

Glaucoma (GL)
Peri-Operative Management of Ophthalmic Surgery (PO)
Refractive Surgery Management (RS)
Treatment and Management of Ocular Disease; Anterior Segment (AS)
Treatment and Management of Ocular Disease; Posterior Segment (PS)

RELATED SYSTEMIC DISEASE

Neuro-Optometry (NO)
Oral Pharmaceutical (OP)
Pharmacology (PH)
Principles of Diagnosis (PD)
System/Ocular Disease (SD)

NO CREDIT, general or pharmacology, will be granted for any
COPE course with these alpha identifiers:

Practice Management (PM)
Ethics/Jurisprudence (EJ)

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