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Established in 1904, Marshall B. Ketchum University (MBKU) is home to one of the oldest optometry schools in the U.S., the Southern California College of Optometry (SCCO). The flagship college began in Los Angeles and moved to its current location in Fullerton in 1973. MBKU is the third oldest optometric program in operation. Today, MBKU is home to the Southern California College of Optometry and School of Physician Assistant Studies. MBKU plans to add a College of Pharmacy with the first class starting in Fall 2016. Marshall B. Ketchum University owns and operates two premier eye and vision care centers – University Eye Center at Fullerton located on its campus in Fullerton, CA, and University Eye Center at Los Angeles located on Broadway at Martin Luther King Boulevard near downtown Los Angeles. Accreditations * Marshall B. Ketchum University: Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). * Southern California College of Optometry: Accreditation Council on Optometric Education (ACOE) of the American Optometric Association. * School of Physician Assistant Studies: The ARC-PA has granted Accreditation-Provisional status to the Marshall B. Ketchum University Physician Assistant Program. Accreditation-Provisional is an accreditation status. The status indicates that the plans and resource allocation for the proposed program appear to demonstrate the program's ability to meet the ARC-PA Standards, if fully implemented as planned. Accreditation-Provisional does not ensure any subsequent accreditation status. It is limited to no more than five years from matriculation of the first class. == Founder biography == Marshall Bidwell Ketchum, M.D. was born in Canada in 1856 and became a pharmacist in Canada after many years of studying. Dr. Ketchum wanted to further his education, so he traveled to the United States to study medicine. He eventually became a faculty member at Nebraska’s Lincoln Medical College teaching medicine to aspiring young doctors, eventually transitioning to conducting the Lincoln Optical College from 1896-1903. After his time at Lincoln Optical College, Ketchum moved to Los Angeles and started the Los Angeles School of Ophthalmology and Optometry in March 1904. This was an exciting time for the profession of optometry, as it was just beginning to develop into a distinct profession separate from general medicine. For many years, Ketchum worked tirelessly to develop the program and merge several schools into the College, which became non-profit in 1938. Ketchum served as president of the College until 1920. Dr. Ketchum was an esteemed member of the medical community during his time, and was an early leader of the profession of optometry. Ketchum strived to create a college with the highest possible quality of education and felt that practitioners of optometry had a deep responsibility to the community and individual patient’s visual needs. Ketchum was among the early pioneers of optometry, advocating the use of the retinoscope to determine refractive status of the eye.〔 He is well known for his book, “Ketchum’s Lessons on the Eye”, published in 1920, that details not only anatomy of the eye, but details on the medical practice of early optometry. In April 1937, Dr. Ketchum died, and the Marshall B. Ketchum, M.D. Memorial Library was established in his memory later that year. Dr. Ketchum was also awarded SCCO Centennial Honoree in 2004. In 2013, due to an outgrowth and expansion of the educational offerings of the 109-year-old Southern California College of Optometry, Marshall B. Ketchum University was established and named in Ketchum's honor to recognize his dedication to developing interprofessional education. The first program to be added was the School of Physician Assistant Studies, which opened in 2014 and was the first school for physician assistants in Orange County. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marshall B. Ketchum University」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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