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:: March 10, 2010
Verification letters for the April 2010 Part III (CSE) Examination have been posted online.
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::March 10, 2010
Instructions to Candidates for the April 2010 Part III (CSE) Examination have been posted online.
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::March 04, 2010
Registration for the June 2010 ACMO Examination is now available.
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::March 02, 2010
Oregon State Law Exam is now available online through the NBEO web site.
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::February 26, 2010
Verification letters for the March 2010 Part I (ABS) Examination have been posted online.
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::February 19, 2010
Candidates can now request official score reports be sent to The Alberta College of Optometrists and The College of Optometrists of British Columbia.
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::January 29, 2010
2010 Part III (CSE) documents have been posted online.
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::January 19, 2010
Scores for the December 2009 Part II (PAM) and TMOD Examinations have been posted online.
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::January 15, 2010
Injection Skills continues to be Pilot-Tested on the April 2010 Clinical Skills Examination.
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::January 07, 2010
State Law Exams are now administered online through the NBEO web site.
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(Updated February 17, 2009)
Part I, renamed “Applied Basic Science” (ABS), will consist of a blend of Basic Science test items (i.e., items of the type used on the 2008 and earlier Basic Science exams), and items used on the current Clinical Science exam. The Clinical Science items shifting to ABS are related to epidemiology/history/symptoms/signs, clinical testing, and diagnosis/pathophysiology. Most ABS items will have the requirement of referencing a clinical condition, either explicitly or implicitly. The ABS examination will be four sessions in length, each session 3½ hours long containing 125 items, for a total of 500 items.
Student candidates must be in the spring of their third academic year to take the new Part I exam. There will be three opportunities to sit for Part I prior to graduation.
The Examination Content Matrix, which contains the subject areas and their relative emphases, can be viewed by clicking here.
On the Applied Basic Science (ABS) examination, drugs are referenced only by generic name. However, to help those candidates who may be more familiar with the trade names of drugs than with the generic names, the following list of generic drugs and their trade name equivalents has been prepared; this list will be printed on the inside front cover of the test booklets. Candidates should note that the list includes only those drugs referenced on the exam that have commonly used trade names. Candidates should also note that the list includes drugs used on other National Board exams; therefore, significantly more drugs appear on the list than actually appear on the ABS exam.
Sections within the Examination Content Matrix are linked to PDF files. To ensure your ability to read these PDF files, please download the latest version of the Adobe Acrobat Reader® by clicking here!
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