ATTENTION ALL KENTUCKY LICENSED OPTOMETRISTS

In 2009, all KY licensed optometrists will be required to take a one-hour HIV-AIDS course for optometrists.  The course must be approved by the KY Cabinet for Health and Family Services.  Your completion certificate must be received in the Board Office by the end of December, 2009.  This course, along with your other education, must be completed prior to 2010 license renewal.  The one-hour HIV-AIDS course will be counted as one of total number of hours required each year.

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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.