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Optometry/Optometrist
The following is meant solely to help the reader understand the main features of primary regulations governing this activity, and not meant in any way to provide a legal interpretation.
The Board of Examiners in Optometry in British Columbia is the regulatory body established to govern the practice of Optometry. The Board is established pursuant to the Optometrists Act.
The Board of Examiners in Optometry of British Columbia's functions include the following:
- Determine the academic qualifications required for an optometrist to obtain a license to practice in the province.
- Monitor and review the standards of practice for optometrists in British Columbia on an ongoing basis.
- Ensure optometrists meet and maintain the established competence standards, as assessed by the Quality Assurance program.
- Assist in the resolution of clinical issues which may arise between a patient and an optometrist.
- Discipline any optometrist who has been found to be in contravention of the Act, regulations and/or bylaws governing the profession.
- Liaise with government and other health care professions.
Optometrists Act:
http://www.qp.gov.bc.ca/statreg/stat/O/96342_01.htm
Primary Contact:
Board of Examiners in Optometry
Dr. Lawrence MacAulay, Registrar
Stanka Jovicevic, CAO/Assistant to the Registrar
#501 - 1111 West Hastings Street,
Vancouver, BC, V6E 2J3
Tel: (604) 623-3464
Fax: (604) 623-3465
Email: optometry_board@telus.net
http://www.optometrybc.com/
http://www.healthplanning.gov.bc.ca/leg/notice/optometry.html
Secondary Contact:
The British Columbia Association of Optometrists
502 - 1755 West Broadway
Vancouver, B.C.
Canada V6J 4S5
Email: info@optometrists.bc.ca
Tel: 604-737-9907
Toll-free (BC only): 1-888-393-2226
Outside BC: 1-604-737-9907
Fax: 604-737-9967
Website: http://www.optometrists.bc.ca
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