Health Professions Division

College of Optometry

Survey of Recent Optometry Graduates

1. What is your gender:
2. What is your primary ethnic background:
Other:
3. What is your marital status:
4. City size of primary practice location:
5. State of primary practice location:
6. Zip code of primary practice location:
7. What is your year of graduation:
8. Which Optometry program did you graduate from:
9. Did you complete a residency:
Yes No (if no, skip to question 14)
10. What type of residency:
11. Your residency's affiliation:
12. My residency experience has been beneficial in obtaining my position in practice:
13. My residency experience has been beneficial in practicing optometry:
14. What was your INITIAL PRIMARY practice setting:
First position after graduation
Other:
15. Did you also have a secondary practice setting:
Yes No
16. What is your CURRENT PRIMARY practice setting:
Other:
17. Do you currently have a secondary practice setting:
Yes No
18. How long did you spend in your initial optometric position (the first one after graduation)
less than 6 months 6 months to one year 1 to 5 years more than 5 years
19. Estimate the percentage of your time spent performing the following functions
Total should equal 100 Refractive, binocular, and functional assessment, prescribing, dispensing and assessing spectacles, and contact lenses
Medical assessment and treatment of medical conditions
Management and administrative functions
Marketing and public relations
20. Please indicate how you feel on average about your satisfaction with your current position:
I feel satisfied with my position:
21. At graduation what was the total of your student loans:
22. What are your plans for the future:
In Five Years:
Other:
23. What are your plans for the future:
In Ten Years:
Other:
24. What are your plans for the future:
In Fifteen Years:
Other:
25. What was your initial salary (first position after graduation):
26. What is your current salary:
27. Are you an AOA member (or member of state affiliate):
Yes No
28. Are you a Candidate or Fellow in the American Academy of Optometry:
Yes No
29. Would you still choose optometry as a profession:
Yes No
30. If no, would you choose another health profession
Yes No
31. Would you advise your children to choose optometry as a profession:
Yes No

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