Primary Eye Care Residency Program

Mission

The mission of the residency in Primary Care Optometry at Womack Army Medical Center is to provide advanced clinical training for military optometrists with emphasis on ocular disease and trauma, medical/therapeutic contact lens fitting, and primary vision and eye health care, allowing the resident an increased professional capacity to manage a diverse and complex patient population.

Program Description

This program is reserved strictly for military optometrists and provides you with an opportunity to gain advanced clinical training and expertise in the areas of ocular disease diagnosis and management, vision rehabilitation, and primary care in a hospital-based setting. You will spend a majority of your time at Womack Army Medical Center, working as an integral part of a multidisciplinary team in providing patient care. You will be provided numerous opportunities to co-manage patients with ophthalmology and perform specialty contact lens fits, as well as co-manage with many other specialty clinics within the medical center. Multiple opportunities for continuing education, lectures, and conferences will be provided. A research paper or case report is required, as is a poster presentation at a national optometric meeting. Teaching is another important aspect of this program, with opportunities to become involved in didactic and clinical education of optometry students, optometrists, and other health care providers.

Residency Eligibility Criteria

• Possess a Doctor of Optometry degree (by starting date) from a program accredited by the Accreditation Council on Optometric Education (ACOE).
• Pursue a full and unrestricted optometry license in any U.S. state by starting date (and obtain within one year)
• Competitive GPA 
• Successfully complete parts I, II, III of the National Board of Examiners in Optometry 
• Submit completed U.S. Army application materials
• U.S. Army active duty status
  

Taylor/ Sandri Medical Training Center

Mission

The Taylor-Sandri MTC provides operationally relevant out-of-hospital medical training to WAMC and military role 1 medical providers through TCCC, Medic Tables, DECM, and tailored training IOT to better prepared students to preform well in high stress and resource constrained environments enabling them to reduce risk to mission, morbidity, and mortality.

Vision

Taylor-Sandri MTC is the desired training site DoD wide for what we train.

Values

Operationally relevant, pragmatic, and retainable training focused on high stress environments.  Our instructor staff will always consider students’ mission performance readiness our guiding principle.
 

Courses Available

Medic Table VIII's
Tactical Combat Casualty Care
Delayed Emergency Casualty Management

Food Operation Safety Course

Instructions for receiving a Basic Food Handler certification:

1. Review the Special Events Food Safety Training.
2. We need your first name, last name, and email address to provide your certificate.  Please read and accept the privacy advisory statement below.
3. Please email us if you have questions.
4. Please click here to begin the quiz. You must score 80% to pass, and your certificate is valid for one year from the date of issuance. 
5. We will grade your quiz and email a card back to you.  It may take 72 hours to receive your card.  Submissions received after 3:00 pm will not be processed until the next business day.

NOTE: 
* This course is intended for individuals conducting ORGANIZATIONAL FOOD EVENTS or SPECIAL EVENTS on the installation that involve the preparation and/or sale of temperature controlled for safety (TCS) foods. 

* This training DOES NOT fulfill the requirement of 4 hours of initial/annual food safety training required of FOOD EMPLOYEES working in a FOOD ESTABLISHMENT.

Privacy advisory:

Warning: By submitting answers to the quiz, you certify that you are the person taking the quiz and the person entitled to a certificate of completion.  The proponent of the exam can verify the origin of submissions.  Your first and last name will be printed on your certificate.  A valid email address is required to receive your certificate.  Providing this information is optional.  However, we cannot provide your food handler certificate if you do not provide the requested information.  This website does not retain this information.

Your first and last name will be kept on file at the Environmental Health Section, Fort Liberty Department of Public Health.  Your name will be kept on file so we may issue a replacement card if the original is misplaced.