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New York Optometry (OD) CE category requirements

How the 36 CE hours every 3 years breaks down by category for optometrists in New York, sourced from the official board.

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Required categories

Live instruction
27h
Ocular disease and pharmacology
36h

Entry reflects the standard level: optometrists certified to use topical therapeutic pharmaceutical agents and/or agents for glaucoma and ocular hypertension (36 hours per triennial period, at least 27 live and up to 9 self-study). Optometrists certified for oral therapeutic pharmaceutical agents must complete 18 additional hours per triennial period in systemic disease with ocular involvement and related therapeutic treatments (54 hours total). Personal-development, marketing, and business-practice courses do not qualify. Exemptions apply for licensees not engaged in practice; adjustments for good cause; a conditional registration for a CE deficiency may last no more than one year.

Official source: NYSED Regulations of the Commissioner of Education 66.6 - Continuing education for licensed optometrists certified to use certain therapeutic pharmaceutical agents

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