logologo-optometry

Post graduate lectures

Catalogue Number: 937
Post graduate lectures
Category: Memorabilia and ephemera
Institution: Australian College of Optometry
Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1946 to 1948
Time Period: 1940 to 1999
Place Of Publication/Manufacture: Melbourne
Publisher/Manufacturer: Australian College of Optometry
Description Of Item: (1) Single fold white glossy paper leaflet announcing the post graduate lectures for 1947 organised by the ACO. (2) Single fold grey matte paper leaflet announcing the Post-Graduate lectures for 1948 organised by the ACO. (3) Single fold small size grey paper leaflet announcing a post-graduate course in orthoptics in 1946 by the ACO. (4) Small white card giving the program for the 1948 lectures. (5) Small white card announcing a post-graduate course of study in 1944 organised by the Educational Reform Society. (6) Two foolscap pages giving the syllabus of the first refresher course in optometry for ex-servicemen organised by the ACO in 1946. (7) Minutes of a meeting at the Ministry of Post-war reconstruction on April 4 1946 about organising refresher training for returned soldiers
Historical Significance: The College provided post-graduate lectures (continuing education) for optometrists, taking over this function from the Victorian Optical Association (see cat No 551 for programs of post graduate lectures of the VOA). This program for 1947 features J H Prince FBOA FSMC FIO who lectured on ocular prothesis, night blindness, ocular evolution and comparative anatomy. Jack Prince was an English optometrist who was an academic in optometry at Ohio State University and published three books on ocular anatomy 1956, 1960 and 1964. He has some 26 publications on PubMed from 1953 to 1963. Also featured were lectures by Ernst Goetz on vertex refraction. A film made by the London Refraction Hospital on contact lenses was shown. The program for 1948 features B Blumberg MSc FVOA, D Buckle MBMS DPM a psychiatrist, WT Agara an academic physiologist and LC Hopper a senior lecturer in physics.
Condition: Fair
Location: Archive office. Pamphlet and ephemera filing cabinet. Drawer 2

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