1124 S. State Street
Big Rapids, Michigan
[email protected]
(231) 591-3700
Illinois Eye Institute at Princeton
5125 S. Princeton
Chicago, IL 60609
Phone: 312-949-7011
Fax: 312-949-7369
Type of Practice:
Institutional setting.
Open Fall and Spring rotations. - 1 student
Mission:
Orientation Instructions:
Please contact Dr. Sandra Block 8 weeks prior to the first day of the rotation to verify dates, times, directions, parking, specific health test requirements, and any other instructions.
If you have any questions, please contact (231) 591-3845 Dr. David Durkee, Director of Externships - [email protected] .
Faculty:
Contact Person:
Sandra Block, O.D., M Ed, MPH, FAAO FCOVD
312-949-7011
E-mail: [email protected]
Clinical Teaching Faculty:
Lanae Yong, O.D.
Marsha Sorenson, O.D.
Grace Castells, O.D.
Support Staff:
Opticians - 4
Office staff personnel - 3
Schedule:
Operating Hours:
Monday - Thursday 8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Friday 8:00 am - 2:30 pm
Hours of direct patient care for extern per day:
6 - 8 (33 per week)
Number of patients seen by extern per day:
7 - 10
Education Objectives:
IEI at Princeton is preparing the extern to provide quality comprehensive eye care
to children from birth to high school graduation.
This would include primary care as well as secondary care including but not limited
to visual efficiency testing, visual information processing
assessments, vision therapy, OCT's, ocular photography, and corneal topography.
It is also important that the extern learns to
communicate with children of all ages, pre-optometry students who volunteer, AmeriCorp
members who spend a year in service
at the clinic and parents/guardians. The clinic offers care to children with special
needs and is an active participant with
Special Olympics Lions Clubs International Opening Eyes Programs.
Scope of the Externship:
PC - Primary Care, PD - Pediatric
Housing:
Approximately $1,000 - $1,750 a month
Community:
Chicago, IL : pop. 2.705 Million in 2016
Chicago is located in the Midwest along the Great Lakes shoreline. It is the third
largest city and metropolitan area in
the United States with a city population approaching 3 million and a metro population
approaching 10 million. Chicago is
a huge vibrant city and metropolitan area that sprawls over 10,887km. It is well
known for house music and
electronic dance music, blues, jazz, comedy, shopping, dining, sports, architecture,
highly-regarded colleges and
universities, and premier cultural attractions.
As the hub of the Midwest, Chicago is easy to find with its picturesque skyline calling
across the waters of the freshwater
Lake Michigan, an impressive sight that soon reveals world-class museums, miles of
sandy beaches, huge parks,
public art, and perhaps the finest looking downtown in the world.
With a wealth of iconic sights and neighborhoods to explore, there is enough to fill
a visit of months without ever
seeing the end. Prepare to cover a lot of ground; the meaning of Chicago is only
found in movement, through
its subways and historic elevated rail, and eyes raised to the sky. "Wikitravel.org"
Miscellaneous:
- The IEI at Princeton is the largest school based vision clinic in the country. We
are housed in
a previously closed Chicago Public School. We have one school bus every day bring 20 - 45
children to our clinic. We also have walk-in hours between 8:30 - 9:30 am and offer appointments
all day. We provide high quality comprehensive eye care to our patients who typically have
difficulty accessing service due to limited insurance or no insurance. We utilize 3 AmeriCorp
members to help ensure the flow of the clinic serves the patients and optometry students as well.
In addition they work to manage follow ups when needed. The clinic provides OCT, photos,
corenal topography, vision therapy, visual processing testing and medically necessary contact lenses.
We are a safety net for the neighborhood we are located in but we have patients coming from
more than 20 miles because of the lack of other resources. Our uninsured rate has substantially
increased in the past year so we are aware that the need for our services continues to grow. We
want the extern to learn the importance of eye care in a public setting, to learn what the best way
to address the visual needs of children and the excitement of providing high quality eyecare to
children from birth to high school graduation. - Reference library available for student use
Everyone at IEI at Princeton has access to the service provided at the IEI main eye clinic and library
resources at the Illinois College of Optometry. We currently have all specialties at our main campus and work
with them when our patients have the need to be referred on campus. We have three AmeriCorp
members who spend a year of service with us and act as case managers for our patients. - Internet access available
The clinic is located in a previously closed Chicago Public School. Four classrooms have been converted into
13 fully equipped lanes. One preceptor is located in each of the four rooms. In addition, we have pre-testing
and a vision therapy room.
Auxiliary Equipment:
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