University of the Incarnate Word Rosenberg School of Optometry

The prescribed 4-year curriculum is based in the medical model, emphasizing individualized attention and clinical development. The curriculum integrates classroom experience and patient contact, providing early exposure to clinical training captured through community outreach programs, rotations through our clinics and externships in clinical sites both nationally and internationally.

SFTP training includes:

• Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) Course
• Library and web-based literature search, review and analysis
• Hypothesis formulation and testing
• Study design, protocol development and informed consent
• Clinical and laboratory data acquisition
• Descriptive, inferential, comparative & predictive statistical analysis
• Graphical and tabular data quantification and presentation
• Creation of an abstract suitable for submission for peer-review
• Development of scientific posters and papers for peer-review

The University of the Incarnate Word Rosenberg School of Optometry offers career service resources specifically for our optometry students and alumni. In addition to general tips on resume building, interview preparation and job searches, we offer a free online placement service to students and alumni of the Doctor of Optometry Program, via UIW’s Cardinal Careers database. Position seekers complete a brief profile and attach their resumes. This profile is then searchable by potential employers. Likewise, employers seeking optometric professionals can complete a profile posting vacancies that are searchable by our students & alumni.