ID Opto Juris study plan

Read Idaho Code Title 54, Chapter 15 straight through without stopping, then outline every section in your own words with its section number and a one-line holding.

Reproduce from memory the statutory definitions that govern the practice of optometry, then check each against the exact statutory text and rewrite any definition you missed.

Diagram the Board of Optometry's composition, appointment mechanism, and rulemaking authority, annotating the specific section that grants each power.

Catalog every statutory ground for license denial, suspension, revocation, or reprimand, and tag each one with a real-world fact pattern that would trigger it.

Build a personal glossary of chapter-specific terms - licensure, registration, endorsement, revocation, suspension - and distinguish the ones you keep conflating.

Locate the Board of Optometry's administrative rules (IDAPA 24.13.01) and read them alongside the statute, section by section.

Cross-walk each rule provision to the statute section that authorizes it, flagging any rule that appears to reach further than its enabling statute.

Identify at least five places where the rules add operational detail the statute never states, such as application contents, fees, or procedural deadlines.

Extract every scope-related phrase in both the statute and the rules and note where the two use different wording for the same authority.

Take a 20-question untimed diagnostic across Domains 1 and 2 and log each miss with the exact authority you should have cited.

Classify every procedure the statute and rules permit an Idaho optometrist to perform into a two-column permitted/not-permitted chart, citing the authority for each entry.

Trace the statutory authority for pharmaceutical agents, including which classes are covered and what documentation or training prerequisites attach.

Define the boundaries around procedures the chapter withholds or conditions, and write the precise language that draws each line.

Map referral and co-management obligations, including what must be documented when a patient's condition exceeds your permitted scope.

Draft ten short clinical vignettes that each test a scope boundary, then answer them and cite the governing provision for every answer.

Map every licensure pathway the statute and rules recognize, from initial application through examination, endorsement, and any temporary or limited credential.

Build a renewal timeline that captures the renewal cycle, the CE hour requirement, category restrictions, the attestation or audit mechanism, and the penalty for late filing.

Sequence the consequences of a lapsed license and the requirements for reinstatement or reactivation, quoting the conditions rather than summarizing them loosely.

List the licensee's ongoing reporting duties - address changes, disciplinary actions elsewhere, criminal matters - and the deadline attached to each.

Write ten licensure-fact questions with exact numeric answers (hours, days, fees) and self-test until you answer all ten without notes.

Enumerate the statutory and rule-based definitions of unprofessional conduct and group them into themes: competence, honesty, boundaries, impairment, and business practices.

Trace the disciplinary process end to end - complaint, investigation, hearing, board action, appeal - and note the due-process rights the licensee holds at each stage.

Analyze advertising, fee-splitting, and referral-arrangement restrictions, and draft one compliant and one non-compliant example for each.

Examine mandatory reporting duties and impairment provisions, and specify who must report what, to whom, and within what timeframe.

Write twelve 'is this a violation?' scenarios and resolve each with a rule citation and a one-sentence rationale.

Extract every recordkeeping requirement - what goes in the record, who may access it, how long it is retained, and in what medium it may be kept.

Compare state confidentiality and record-release rules against federal HIPAA expectations, and flag every place the stricter standard controls.

Specify the mechanics of a lawful records request: patient authorization, third-party subpoenas, minors, and emergency disclosures.

Document the informed-consent and record-content obligations that attach to the procedures you mapped in week three.

Build a pre-inspection compliance checklist a practice could run against its own files before a Board inquiry.

Re-read the statute and rule provisions attached to every question you have missed so far, and rewrite each in your own words.

Convert your weakest 60 facts into spaced-repetition flashcards, each tagged with its domain and exact citation.

Audit your citation map from week one against the actual text and correct every paraphrase that drifted from the source.

Run a 30-question mixed set drawn only from Domains 1 and 5 and score it without notes.

Identify the three numeric facts (hours, days, dollar amounts) you are most likely to forget and build a memory device for each.

Sit a full-length 100-question timed mock exam weighted to the official domain percentages, with no notes and no breaks longer than the real exam allows.

Log every miss into an error table recording domain, tested concept, correct authority, and the reason you chose wrong.

Re-study only the top five error clusters, then re-answer those questions cold the following day.

Recite from memory the key numbers - CE hours, renewal cycle, retention period, reporting deadlines - and verify each against the text.

Write a one-page pre-exam brief of your ten highest-risk facts and read it the morning of the exam.