EYESIGHT NEWSLETTER Spring 2026 - Volume XVII, Issue I
Teaching Clinical Facilities: Where Patients Receive Next Level Care
What is a Teaching Clinical Facility? Teaching clinical facilities are affiliated with a school or educational program, and students from the program work on-site alongside faculty or preceptors as a part of their educational experience. The Eye Institute The Eye Institute (TEI), a teaching facility for the Pennsylvania College of Optometry (PCO) at Drexel University, Elkins
Patient-Student Interaction Fourth-year students, who are in their last year of their educational program and merely months from graduation, work at the clinical site daily as a part of their clinical rotations, so patients are likely to interact with them. Extra Training All the optometrists at TEI are residency-trained, meaning they received extra training after their four years Doctor of