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Founded in 1974, the Association of Optometric Contact
Lens Educators (AOCLE) has as its member institutions the 19 schools and colleges of optometry in North America. The organization holds an annual business meeting, generally in late summer, attended by two representatives of the contact lens faculty from each of the member institutions. Since 1983, an annual workshop has been held in early summer at one of the member schools. Topics are selected by the host schools, but all have the goal of enhancing the individual faculty member's ability to provide the highest quality contact lens education.
Mission
The Association of Optometric Contact Lens Educators is committed to fostering the highest levels of education in the areas of cornea and contact lenses and supporting the faculty in these areas at each of the North American schools and colleges of optometry.
Goals
To achieve the mission of the Association of Optometric Contact Lens Educators, the organization has established the following goals.
- To enhance and foster the contact lens education at all schools and colleges of optometry by providing an annual educational workshop to representatives of the association.
- To develop, refine, and share new learning resources among schools and colleges.
- To present contemporary and future technologies that apply to the area of anterior segment, cornea, and contact lenses.
- To serve as a resource for communication between the AOCLE and various national and international organizations.
- To encourage a positive relationship between contact lens educators and industry so that mutually beneficial projects and goals can be developed and achieved.
- To foster and demonstrate innovation and leadership in cornea and contact lens related education.
- To encourage the concept of postdoctoral training programs in the area of cornea and contact lens therapy and management.
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