At the end of April, hundreds of optometrists and optometry students from across the country met in Washington, DC to advocate for optometry.
As you have heard and learned many times throughout school, optometry is a legislated profession. This means that if there is something new that we as optometrists want to do, we need to pass legislation in order to expand our scope of practice.
In addition to expanding the procedures we are allowed to do, we must also protect our profession from others who may want to take things away from us.