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American Board of Certification in Medical Optometry

Newsletter – ABCMO News and Updates – May 2022

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Welcome New Specialists in Medical Optometry!

First and foremost, the Board would like to welcome all those O.D.s newly certified in the Specialty of Medical Optometry: Robert Binkley, Mackenzie Black, Patrick Clark, Michelle D’Amura, Dean Fasciani, Caryn Herman, William Hileman, Carrie Ho, Gayle LePosa, Rachael Miller, Elizabeth Phillips, Ashley Rone, David Sarah, Jennifer Sutter and Leslie Wilderson.

If you happen to work with any of these people please introduce yourself and congratulate them on their certification – you know exactly how much work they’ve done to accomplish this.

A Letter to VA Optometry Residency Coordinators: The Benefits of the ACMO Exam

This editorial first appeared in Optimum VA, The Official Newsletter of the National Association of VA Optometrists, January/February 2022. In addition to outlining several benefits of taking the ACMO exam during Residency, this editorial also mentions a major change in 2019 to VA Handbook 5017 and the SAA system.

The Benefits of the ACMO Exam

What is Medical Optometry?

In this editorial Dr. Kenneth Myers, President of ABCMO, discusses the Specialty of Medical Optometry and the historic “split” between retail and clinical health care that can be seen in multiple professions.

What is Medical Optometry?

Verification of Certification (VOC) – What ABCMO Reports

When ABCMO receives a VOC request (usually from a Joint Commission accredited health care facility credentialing committee) it reports one of the following status categories for the O.D. in question: Active, Probation, Retired, Revoked, or Never Certified. More information about these categories can be found on the VOC webpage.

Verification of Certification

Maintenance of Certification (MOC) – What You Need to Know

Effective January 1, 2023 ABCMO will begin reporting O.D.s Certified by ABCMO but not enrolled in MOC as having Status: Probation when asked by credentialing committees and employers. Until then, ABCMO will continue to report Status: Active (followed by an email reminder to the O.D. to enroll in MOC as soon as possible).

Starting in July 2022, and continuing through the end of the year, ABCMO will begin reaching out to each and every Diplomate about their MOC status and if necessary making adjustments to renewal dates for those already enrolled in MOC. This is so that no O.D. falls into the Probation or Revoked category by accident in 2023.

Maintenance of Certification

ACMO Exam Scheduled for Friday, June 10, 2022

While the odds are very high that if you are reading this you have already taken the exam yourself, the odds are equally high you are working with someone who hasn’t. Please share this if any of your colleagues ask about your experience with ABCMO and attaining Certification.

ACMO Exam Scheduled for June 10, 2022

Peer-Reviewed Journal Under Study

ABCMO is currently investigating the feasibility of launching an online, peer-reviewed journal. If you would be interested in submitting work (articles, editorials, interest pieces) or working on the Editorial or Peer-Review teams please use the link below to let us know.

Let us know what interests you!

May 24, 2022
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ABCMO News, Updates & Editorials


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ABCMO News

  • ACMO Exam Scheduled for Thursday, June 22, 2023
  • Newsletter – ABCMO News and Updates – May 2022
  • A Reminder to VA Residents
  • Newsletter – ABCMO News and Updates – September 2021
  • Newsletter – ABCMO News and Updates – January 2021

Reflections – Articles of Interest and Editorials

  • 10 Administrators for Every Doctor
  • What is Medical Optometry?
  • A Letter to VA Optometry Residency Coordinators: Benefits of ACMO
  • Retail and Clinical Pharmacy
  • It’s Time to Rethink Board Recertification

Comments are welcome and can be sent to editor@abcmo.org for publication under the author's name.

Certification Requirements

The following are in addition to an O.D. degree from an accredited North American school or college of optometry and a current state license to practice.

Residency: Completion of a full-time, ACOE (or equivalent) accredited, postgraduate clinical residency training program having major emphasis on medical optometry.

ACMO Exam: Passage of the Advanced Competence in Medical Optometry exam (or equivalent) offered by the National Board of Examiners in Optometry.

Practice: Documented significant practice of medical optometry for a minimum of two years immediately prior to application for certification.

The Practice requirement is waived in the two years immediately following residency training.

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