Examination and course requirements

Only those optometrists who have duly applied to the board and satisfactorily passed an examination and completed courses prescribed by the board, including courses in general and ocular pharmacology, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and first aid for adverse reactions, shall be permitted the use of diagnostic pharmaceutical agents. No course or courses in pharmacology may be approved by the board unless taught by an institution having the capability for both the didactic and clinical instruction in pharmacology, the institution is accredited by a regional or professional accrediting organization or the United States department of education, and unless transcript credit for the course or courses is certified to the board by the institution as being equivalent in both hours and content to those courses in pharmacology required of health professional students graduating after June 1972.