Additional Requirements: Child Abuse Identification Reporting and Infection Control
Two separate licensure conditions
Additional Requirements are not academic credit and not part of NBEO. Before a New York optometry license is issued, the applicant must document completion of approved training in Child Abuse Identification Reporting and in Infection Control and Barrier Precautions. The exam tests that both are required, that they are separate, and that documentation must be acceptable.
Core rules
- Child Abuse Identification Reporting: training in recognizing and reporting suspected child abuse or maltreatment, consistent with New York’s mandated-reporter framework. The certificate must show an approved course or provider.
- Infection Control and Barrier Precautions: training in standard precautions, hand hygiene, barrier precautions, and safe infection-control practice for optometric care. A general practice-management course does not satisfy it.
- Both, not either: a file with only one certificate is incomplete.
- Before licensure: completion is a condition of licensure; it is not a post-licensure continuing-education checkbox.
Worked example. An applicant has a four-year OD, passed NBEO Parts I, II, and III, and submits a child-abuse certificate but no infection-control certificate. The education and examination requirements are met, but the application is incomplete because both additional training certificates are required. If the applicant submits an infection-control certificate from a provider not approved for the required training, the document does not cure the gap.
Traps that cost marks
- Submitting one certificate and assuming it covers both topics.
- Relying on the OD transcript to prove the trainings without the required certificates.
- Treating the requirements as continuing education after licensure.