Clinical Essentials
Foundational clinical education for the practicing optometrist. Rigorous, independent, and designed to be immediately applicable at the point of care.
What is Clinical Essentials?
Clinical Essentials is MYODCE's foundational educational pathway — a curated series of COPE-accredited courses covering the clinical topics that matter most in everyday optometric practice.
These are not survey courses. Each Clinical Essentials offering is developed with the same editorial rigor applied across all MYODCE content — evidence-informed, clinician-authored, and free from commercial influence. The difference is scope: Clinical Essentials courses focus on the clinical fundamentals that every practicing optometrist should command with confidence.
At $20 per course, Clinical Essentials is priced to be accessible — because independent, high-quality CE should not be a privilege of geography or practice size.
What defines this pathway
Accessible by Design
Clinical Essentials courses are priced to remove financial barriers to high-quality continuing education. Every clinician — regardless of practice setting — should have access to rigorous, independent CE.
Clinically Grounded
Content is developed from a practicing clinician's perspective. The emphasis is on what matters at the point of care — not encyclopedic coverage, but the clinical reasoning that improves patient outcomes.
COPE-Accredited
All Clinical Essentials courses carry COPE accreditation, fulfilling state licensure CE requirements while meeting the editorial standards MYODCE holds across every educational offering.
Independent
No commercial sponsorship. No industry influence. Clinical Essentials content reflects the independent editorial voice that defines MYODCE — evidence-informed, clinician-authored, and free from commercial bias.
Explore Clinical Essentials courses
Browse all available and upcoming Clinical Essentials offerings in the MYODCE course catalog.