Vision Clinic

Vision Clinic's passion is to provide extraordinary eye care, distinctive eye wear, adn exceptional service, making patient experience unique and memorable.

You should contact Dr. Steve Rice 6 weeks prior to the beginning of your rotation to verify dates, times, directions, parking, and any other instructions. Completion of specific health requirements may be required, please check with your site.  

• Operating Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30am-5:00pm
  • Saturday:  8:00am - 1:00pm
• Hours of direct patient care for extern per day: 7.5 (37.5 per week)
• Number of patients seen by extern per day: varies per day

We are strong believers in, and advocate for, independent private practice.  We are passionate about offering leading edge technology to enhance our patient care experience.  We also realize that running a successful and profitable practice requires multiple skill sets.  Our Objective for externs would be to teach them to participate in a fully immersive and comprehensive private practice experience.  

Contact Person

Steve Rice, O.D.
Email:  [email protected]

Clinical Teaching Faculty

• Steve Rice, O.D.
• Kory Sawyer, O.D.
• Kevin Rice, O.D.
• Sandy Rice, O.D.

Support Staff

• 95 staff inlcuding scribes, technicians, special testing staff, call center, lab, vision therapists, insurane specialists. 

Not provided by the facility
Approximate cost: $1,000/mo. 

• Springfield, MO:  170,000
• 3rd largest city in Missouri.  True midwest climate.  
• Many beautiful rivers, lakes, and trails.
• 40 minutes from Branson
• Home of Bass Pro, Missouri State, Drury University

• Goldman Visual Field
• OCT - Optovue Avanti
• Firefly photographic biomicroscope
• Icare Tonometer
• Keratometer
• Fundus Camera
• Gonioscopy lenses
• Topographer
• Corneal Pachymetry