IACLE SOUTH KOREA

IACLE KOREA NEWSLETTER - May-June 2005

We present this newsletter to keep you informed of IACLE programs and upcoming events as well as to provide an opportunity for members’ involvement and the sharing of information.

IACLE is very keen on increasing the IACLE membership in Korea. We encourage all our members to inform us about schools and colleges which run optometry or opticianry courses and are not yet involved with IACLE. At present we have only 10 Resource centers in Korea. I am sure with your help we can double this number this year. We look forward to your support in increasing our membership in Korea.

We welcome Seok-Ju Lee as an IACLE Full Member from Dong Kang College.

We request members of IACLE who have not yet paid their 2005 membership fees to please send their fee invoices or discuss with Jai Min Kim the modes of payment for IACLE please.

An IACLE Industry Seminar was held at Seoul National University of Technology on 2nd May 2005, with 61 students, 1 educator and 3 industry sponsors in attendance. B&L, Alcon Labs & AMO participated in the Industry seminar. Free sets of trial lenses and company pamphlets were distributed to the students. Students were interested in the silicone hydrogel lenses which were newly introduced by some Industries. Bifocal lenses, which was presented by JoonSang Lee (Bausch & Lomb), was also considered as one of the interesting topics by students. Students were very happy to take home contact lens, multi-purpose solution, and lens cases provided by the Industry.

An IACLE Industry Seminar was held at Seoul National University of Technology on 9th May 2005, with 58 students, 1 educator and 3 industry sponsors in attendance. J&J, CIBA Vision & Ocular Sciences participated in the Industry seminar and free sets of trial lenses were distributed to the students. Also the industry distributed their company pamphlets to the students during the seminar.

We have received the industry seminar summary spreadsheet and the students feedback from Mijung Park of Seoul National University of Technology. Comments from the IACLE Resource Coordinator:

“We had a great time thanks to IACLE. Students and I know that it is not easy to have an opportunity to meet 6 different Industries at a time. I really appreciate you and other IACLE's members."

We encourage all resource co-ordinators to implement Industry seminars. This is an easy way for the students to come in contact with Industry and also get to know more about CL fitting, C&M and information on the new products available.

We would also like to let all the members know that IACLE will be sending the students questionnaire forms for the Product Information Days. We request the co-ordinators to send us the completed forms. If for any reason the co-ordinators are unable to enter the details filled in by students, you can send it to us and we can analyze it for you please. This feedback form will let us know how we can improve on the future Product Information Day’s.

The list of upcoming Industry days are:

1. Yeojoo Institute of Technology : 8th September 2005
2. Daebul University : 28th October 2005
3. Masan College : 11th November 2005

We request all resource co-ordinators to provide us with refractive errors of the students who will be attending Industry days. This will help us to interact with industry and arrange for free trial lenses.

For more information regarding IACLE programs such as Industry Seminars, please visit the IACLE website at www.iacle.org .

STUDENT TRIAL EXAMS

We would like to inform all the resource co-ordinators that the new STE paper is available in Korea. This definitely would make it much better for students to sit the examination.

The IACLE Student Trial Exams are scheduled to be held at the following institutes in the year 2005:

1. Chodang University : TBC
2. Seoul Health College : 4th November 2005
3. Masan College : 7th November 2005
4. Daebul University : 11th November 2005
5. YeoJoo Institute of Technology : 25th November 2005
6. Seoul National University of Technology : 22nd November 2005
7. Kwanju Health College : 2nd December 2005

We request those institutions who have not scheduled an examination to send in their application for STE please.

Questions or comments can be sent to IACLE KOREA NEWSLETTER, C/-Lakshmi Shinde at admin@iacleindia.com

IACLE would like to thank the industry sponsors who support global contact lens education
CIBA Vision
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.
Bausch & Lomb
AMO
Ocular Sciences Inc., A CooperVision Company
Alcon Laboratories
CooperVision
Menicon Europe

Please visit the IACLE South Korea webpage