professional competence. The term shall encompass the use of
pharmaceutical agents approved by the Food and Drug
Administration and published in the Code of Federal Regulations
for diagnostic purposes [classified as], including, but not
limited to, miotics, mydriatics, cycloplegics, topical
anesthetics and dyes when applied topically to the eye, [which
pharmaceutical agents shall be approved by the Secretary of
Health as provided in section 4.3 and,] subject to the rules and
regulations of the board, provided however that with respect to
optometrists licensed before March 1, 1974, only such
optometrists who have satisfactorily completed a course in
pharmacology as it applies to optometry, with particular
emphasis on the topical application of diagnostic pharmaceutical
agents to the eye, approved by the board shall be permitted to
use diagnostic pharmaceutical agents topically in the practice
of optometry.
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"Optometrist." Any person who, following formal and
recognized training in the art and science of optometry has
received a doctor of optometry degree from an accredited
institution and is qualified to seek or has acquired a license
to practice the profession of optometry. An optometrist shall be
identified either by "Doctor of Optometry," "O.D.," [or "Dr."
followed by "Optometrist] "Doctor" or "Optometric Physician."
"Practice of optometry."
(1) The use of any and all means or methods for the
examination, diagnosis and treatment of all conditions of the
human visual system, including all conditions of the anterior
segment of the human eye applicable to this act, and shall
include the examination for, and adapting and fitting of, any
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