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Benefits of the ChiCago Vision outreaCh inClude: 20 iCo launChed ChiCago Vision ouTreaCh near the close of 2010, an initiative to advance students’ training by learning how to address the diverse challenges of a patient population that needs preventative eye care. This program brings meaningful enhancements to ICO’s revered clinic program and connects students with a range of clinic experiences. • Providing students with access to additional patient encounters and giving third-year students a broad spectrum of experiences by increasing their annual clinical sessions by one session per week for one quarter. • Access to the Alivio Medical Center in the Pilsen neighborhood and the Erie Family Health Center in Humboldt Park, both Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC). • Second - year students have new opportunities to gain clinical experience at the IEI clinic site at Chicago Public Schools (read more in this issue’s cover story on page 9) sChool of The year The National Optometric Association presented ICO with its School of the Year Award for the school’s significant efforts to increase minority student recruitment, enrollment and retention. Among ICO’s diversity outreach initiatives is the Focus on Your Future summer program, which drew 21 undergraduate students in July. The program brings underrepresented minorities to ICO to explore optometry as a potential career path. Four participants from previous Focus on Your Future programs were accepted into the Class of 2014, with more expected to apply in the years to come. iCo on faCeBooK ICO launched its official Facebook page in April 2010, drawing more than 600 fans and 29,027 page views over an eight month period. The page is used to share news about ICO, alumni and the optometry profession. If you’re not a fan yet, please become one by going to www.facebook.com and searching for Illinois College of Optometry Overall minority enrollment in the entering class increased to 43 percent. Underrepresented minority students represent 14 percent of the Class of 2014. Among ICO faculty and staff, 38 percent are minority, with more than 15 percent being multilingual. There are 18 different languages spoken by iCo students, and 55 students serve as interpreters in the illinois eye institute. I C O a n n u a l r e p O r t 20 10 21
22 Drs. Sandra Block and Janice Jurkus were inducted into the prestigious National Academies of Practice. I C O a n n u a l r e p O r t 20 10 neW Way To apply 148 neW opToMeTrisTs This year saw the introduction of a national application service, OPTOMCAS, to streamline the application process. ICO received the highest number of applications – 1,254 – which represented a 36 percent increase over last year’s applicants to the school. The Class of 2014 arrived with 161 newly entering students and 4 returning students, resulting in the targeted 165 class size. 148 members of the Class of 2010 graduated into the optometry profession. They set a remarkable standard before they left: The class pass rate for Part 3 of the NBEO was 100 percent and the rate for all four parts was 98.6 percent, placing them well ahead of their peer group of graduates at other optometric schools. sharing iCo’s experTise Faculty and students presented their research at a number of meetings throughout 2010, including more than 30 posters at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Optometry in November, and 17 presentations in May at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Annual Meeting, one of the most prestigious vision research meetings in the world. Other key conferences included the American Optometric Association, the International Congress of Behavioral Optometry, the International Society for Eye Research and the World Conference on Optometric Education. Research also was shared within the ICO community at the Second Annual ICO Research Symposium in October, at which 53 posters were presented. finding a hoMe occupancy of iCo’s residential Complex was at 86 percent, with 180 of the beds generating revenue for the College. The rC also provided housing to visiting students from australia, spain and iCo’s focus on your future summer program. 23
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