Certified Ophthalmic Assistant (COA) Chapter 1 – Practice Questions and
Answers Study Guide
What does the abbreviation JCAHPO stand for? - correct answer ✔✔Joint Commission on Allied
Health Personnel in Ophthalmology
What responsibility routinely falls to the ophthalmic medical assistant? - correct answer
✔✔performing certain diagnostic tests
Which eye care professional is a medical doctor? - correct answer ✔✔ophthalmologist
Which eye care professional routinely fills prescriptions for eyeglasses? - correct answer
✔✔optician
What does an orthoptist do? - correct answer ✔✔evaluates double vision
What do you call an ophthalmologist who concentrates on one area of the eye? - correct answer
✔✔a subspecialist
Which eye care professional can fit a patient with a prosthetic eye? - correct answer
✔✔ocularist
What is the level directly above certified ophthalmic medical assistant on JCAHPO's certification
ladder? - correct answer ✔✔certified ophthalmic technician
Answers Study Guide
What does the abbreviation JCAHPO stand for? - correct answer ✔✔Joint Commission on Allied
Health Personnel in Ophthalmology
What responsibility routinely falls to the ophthalmic medical assistant? - correct answer
✔✔performing certain diagnostic tests
Which eye care professional is a medical doctor? - correct answer ✔✔ophthalmologist
Which eye care professional routinely fills prescriptions for eyeglasses? - correct answer
✔✔optician
What does an orthoptist do? - correct answer ✔✔evaluates double vision
What do you call an ophthalmologist who concentrates on one area of the eye? - correct answer
✔✔a subspecialist
Which eye care professional can fit a patient with a prosthetic eye? - correct answer
✔✔ocularist
What is the level directly above certified ophthalmic medical assistant on JCAHPO's certification
ladder? - correct answer ✔✔certified ophthalmic technician
