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PEC approves slate of continuing‑education courses, flags recurring after‑the‑fact submissions
Summary
The Practice and Education Committee of the California State Board of Optometry unanimously approved a series of continuing‑education (CE) course requests on Nov. 21, 2025, while members pressed for a future agenda item to analyze why many CE applications arrive after courses are offered and agreed to several category corrections.
The Practice and Education Committee of the California State Board of Optometry met Nov. 21, 2025, and voted unanimously to approve a large batch of continuing‑education (CE) course requests, including several category adjustments and an authorization for staff to make non‑substantive technical corrections to posted minutes.
The committee, chaired by an unnamed chair who opened the meeting, considered courses grouped under agenda item 4 (subsections 4a–4k). Discussion centered on whether several courses submitted as specialty content (for example, glaucoma or ocular disease) actually fit those categories. Dr. Bragg raised concerns about item 4a.4 (navigating intraocular lenses in glaucoma patients), saying the slides appeared to emphasize IOLs more than glaucoma. The chair expressed concern about changing categorizations retroactively because licensees who…
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