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Virginia Administrative Code
Title 18. Professional And Occupational Licensing
Agency 105. Board of Optometry
Chapter 20. Regulations Governing the Practice of Optometry
5/5/2025

18VAC105-20-80. Requirements for laser surgery certification.

An applicant for laser surgery certification shall submit to the board:

1. A completed application for laser surgery certification;

2. The prescribed fee;

3. An educational attestation from a dean or designee of a school of optometry or an instructor of a laser surgery certification course approved by the board that verifies that the applicant received didactic and clinical laser surgery training in the following subjects:

a. Laser physics, hazards, and safety;

b. Biophysics of laser;

c. Laser application in clinical optometry;

d. Laser tissue interactions;

e. Laser indications, contraindications, and potential complications;

f. Gonioscopy;

g. Laser therapy for open-angle glaucoma;

h. Posterior capsulotomy;

i. Common complications, lids, lashes, and lacrimal;

j. Medicolegal aspects of anterior segment procedures;

k. Peripheral iridotomy; and

l. Laser trabeculoplasty.

The required attestation from the dean or designee of a school of optometry or an instructor of a laser surgery certification course approved by the board shall be submitted on a form prescribed by the board; and

4. Evidence of one of the following:

a. Passage of the Laser Section of the LSPE, for which the applicant must request submission of an official report from the NBEO of the score received on the Laser Section of the LSPE; or

b. Proctored sessions in compliance with 18VAC105-20-90, which may be obtained during education training described in subdivision 3 of this section.

Statutory Authority

§§ 54.1-2400 and 54.1-3225 of the Code of Virginia.

Historical Notes

Derived from Virginia Register Volume 41, Issue 14, eff. May 1, 2025.

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