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    Welcome, Fellow Opticians!      
My name is Hari Singh Bird, Optician

POINTS TO PONDER

"My mission is to re-humanize the
dispensing of prescription eyewear."

"An optician's first purpose is as a highly
skilled health and wellness professional."

"It's time to end lecture-only venues for CE credit hours.
It's time for Opticians to get real, hands-on, tactile training
in order to re-
humanize the dispensing of prescription eyewear."

"Opticianry is ultimately defined by how well the eyewear makes
contact with the patient, not by the number of customers served.
Therefore, a conscious, precise, and personalized process of frame
selection, lens design, and in-place, hands-on fitting is required. In too
many cases obsessive and unrealistic sales goals override the optician's
mission of providing good professional health care, whereby the personalized,
custom-fitting of prescription eyewear is given only minor consideration, if any."

"The customized fitting of eyewear involves more than just adjusting a nose
piece or bending a temple. It has to include the reshaping, bending, stretching,
twisting and artful sculpting of the frame components in order to personalize the
eyewear. Anything less will most likely compromise the patient's visual comfort
and long term wear-ability. The difference between adjusting and customizing is
what's different between today's eyewear merchants and yesterday's opticians."

"Just as a dentist cannot practice dentistry without direct patient contact, the
optician cannot effectively dispense without tactile contact with the patient.
An unskilled eyewear merchant routinely hands over prescription glasses
with no hands-on assessment, nor the appropriate ‘touch-and-feel’ required
to custom-fit the eyewear. When skilled opticians dispense however, they de-
termine for themselves how the frame feels in addition to asking the patient." --
OpticalWorkshops.com

A Brief Personal History

I am a native of the Midwest. I am also a Sikh minister. My career as an Optician began following active duty with the U.S. Marine Corps in 1958. My Optician licenses in Florida and Arizona are current. I have been certified by the American Board of Opticianry, and National Contact Lens Examiners. I am currently an Ophthalmic Dispenser Training Consultant. And I am a passionate advocate of a) the resurgence of the Optician as a genuinely skilled Health Care Provider as opposed to today's Dispensers who are trained mostly as eyeglass merchants, b) resurgence of the Full Discovery and Disclosure Life-style Interview and Design of prescription eyewear, c) conscientious Hands-on-the-Patient delivery of prescription eyewear, and d) more effective hands-on training for aspiring Opticians in the art of custom designed lenses and the custom fitting of eyeglass frames. See Acknowledgements.

A Special Note

As a senior Ophthalmic Health Care Provider and founder of OpticalCourse.com, I am interested in sharing my experience in the dispensing of prescription eyewear. If you are a practitioner who recognizes the decades-old decline in dispensing skills and wish to incorporate hands-on-the-patient dispensing into your practice, or you need guidance in order to improve your skills and profitability, visit OpticianryToday.com and OpticalWorkshops.com, then contact me here, or call 407-628-4443.

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Books, lectures and tests can take an Optician's skills only so far.


It is time for direct, touch-and-feel, Hands-on-the-Patient training to happen.
Only one-on-one craftsmanship training does this. It cannot be learned virtually.

HANDS-ON-THE-PATIENT WORKSHOP TRAINING AVAILABLE HERE
"Opticianry is defined by how well the eyewear fits the patient."

American Board of Opticianry accredited and Florida State Board approved workshops
for Intermediate and Advanced Level Opticians in Hands-on-the-Patient Frame Fitting
are currently being offered under the sponsorship of POF, the Professional Opticians of
Florida. Those professionals interested in attending similar workshops should inquire here.

        

           

  

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