Research Article

The Washington Metropolitan Pediatric Vision Screening Quality Control Assessment

Table 2

Reporting knowing the difference between an ophthalmologist, an optician, and an optometrist and if they could identify which of the following is a physician (had completed medical school) between an ophthalmologist, optician, optometrist, and a pediatrician.

Reported being able to know the differencePercent of overall responses

 Yes, knew the difference65%
 No, did not know the difference35%

Total no. of responses153

which has had medical school training# marked/Total Percent of those who participated in question that marked response
 Ophthalmologist143/93%
 Optician10/7%
 Optometrist38/25%
 Pediatrician134/87%

Total no. of marked/Total no. of responses325/156