ATTENTION 2008 OPTOMETRY GRADUATES
The KY Board of Optometric Examiners is still accepting applications for license. Please mail your application to the board office as soon as possible. You can click on New Application (to the right of this text) and download the application. A list of supporting documents is on the front of the application.
The Board will meet on July 12, 2008 to consider your application provided all documents are received 3 weeks prior to this date. We will receive your National Board scores electronically if you request they be sent to us.
On July 12, 2008 at 1:30pm (eastern time) the Board will administer the KY law exam. You can download a copy of the statues and regulation (to the left of this text). This will be your study guide for the exam. The location will be the Embassy Suites Hotel located at 1801 Newtown Pike in Lexington, KY.
If the Board licenses you on July 12,2008, your initial letter will be given to you that day. The letter will indicate a pro-rated annual licensure fee due prior to your license number being issued. You will not be permitted to practice until your license number is released. The fee will include the cost of your TPA certificate and large wall certificate.
The Board staff will be available on Monday, July 14,2008 from 1:00pm until 4:00pm if you wish to come to the office to pay the fee and pick up your license number.
ALERT ALERT ALERT
All continuing education taken for license renewal must be sponsored by a state, regional (multi-state like SECO) or national optometric association*, an accredited school of optometry or an accredited school of medicine. This is pursuant to 201 KAR 5:030 Section 2.
*National optometric association would be the American Optometric Association, American Academy of Optometry, College of Vision Development and the National Optometric Association.
This means that all education certificates submitted for 2008 license renewal, and thereafter, must be sponsored by one of the above groups including all COPE courses, and OEP courses, internet or correspondence or audio-digest. The only exception to this requirement is the one-hour HIV-AIDS course which must be approved by the KY Cabinet for Health & Family Services (CHFS). This course is required for newly licensed optometrists. All KY licensed optometrists will be required to take the course in 2009 for 2010 license renewal. Click this link to go to the CHFS HIV approved class information web page: HIV-AIDS Training.
If you use the Association of Regulatory Boards of Optometry's OE Tracker database to document your continuing education, please forward the printout with your signature to our office as soon as you complete the education. This will expedite the release of your license during renewals.