One week teaching opportunity!
VOSH is pleased to be a partner with the Asociacion Latinoamericana de Optometras y Opticos– ALDOO to collaborate with schools of optometry in Latin America. ALDOO wants to encourage the schools to join and collaborate with VOSH.
One initiative from the VOSH-ALDOO collaboration is to find Optometric Educators in the US and other countries to volunteer to do one full week of lectures/workshops at the schools that form SVOSH chapters in Latin America. We have had a few of these collaborations this past year that that have had excellent success.
Several Latin American schools have expressed interest in this program. The main areas of need of several schools that ALDOO has queried are Low Vision and pediatrics. However, we anticipate anterior Segment, contact lenses, and disease will be very helpful in the future also. A one week course may be designed as ~ 12 hours of lecture (mornings) and four 3-hour workshops (afternoons).
Since this is a new program, we are very flexible on dates, just mindful of when it would be feasible for the volunteers. The local schools provide room and board of the guest lecturer, as well as providing an interpreter, if needed.
If interested, please contact VOSH Director Marcela Frazier, OD, MPH, FAAO at mgfrazier@uabmc.edu
