We oppose redaction of the 2004 policy banning optometrist attendance at the AAO annual meeting
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We, the undersigned, wish to declare our opposition to the recently redacted 2004 policy which banned the participation of optometrists at the AAO annual meeting. As stated by academy representative Gary Schwartz at the time of the policy implementation in 2004:
"One strategy that optometrists have employed to broaden their scope is to show legislators that they learn, or even teach, surgical care at the Academy’s Annual Meeting. Our scientific program is designed to provide CME to practitioners who have gone through medical school and medical internship. It would be shortsighted to continue to allow nonphysicians to use attendance at these meetings as proof that their education is somehow equivalent to ours."
We have no assurance this pattern of behavior will not resume.and cannot support the recent policy change.
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