Our Quality Commitment to You

Professional Opticians of Florida is committed to continuing our proud tradition of offering only high-quality education with our “home study” courses.

Only top instructors in the optical profession were asked research and write courses that are interesting and relevant to you. Each course has been reviewed to ensure that all information is the most accurate and up-to-date as possible by a panel of experts.

All home study courses available onPOFce.org are approved by the Florida Board of Opticianry for the renewal of your Florida optician’s license and approved for ABO/NCLE credits as indicated. Florida provider B00007

POF’s Mission

For the past 50 years, the Professional Opticians of Florida have dedicated themselves to enhancing the competency of opticians, advancing the profession of opticianry, and working to protect the health and welfare of the public.

How POFce.org Online Courses Works

First open your own password-protected account on the web site; this is to confirm your name, address & Florida license number.

What’s the price?

POF Members receive FREE Online POFce courses as a Member benefit of Professional Opticians of Florida.

Non- POF members are charged the nominal fee of $20 per C.E. hour or $80 for five C.E. hours if purchased at one time. That’s five hours for the price of four. We accept payment from Visa and MasterCard.

Not a POF member?

Would you like to join now to get these online POFce courses included along with all the other great POF membership benefits?

We make joining POF easy and affordable for you. Sign up for it and online POFce account right now and purchase five hours of C.E. courses for $80 (a $20 savings) and we will immediately e-mail you a link to limited time offer to join POF for just an additional $85. You will pay in a total of $165 and have immediate access to these online courses and the rest of the POF membership benefits. Find out more about POF and our great member benefits go to www.pof.org.

It’s your Choice to View or Print the Courses

Once you have opened an account, you choose the C.E. topics you want from the list of available courses. You can view and read the course material on your computer screen or download it, print it and take it with you. All courses are available in PDF files or a MS Words file. If you need a one of these readers, you can download them free.

Courses Fit Your Schedule

You can take courses now or wait until later. It is completely up to you when you start and finish the courses; you have until the end of the current renewal (December 31, 2008) period to complete your chosen number of courses.

You can take an exam, after you have read the course material. There are minimum of 15 questions per hour of C.E. Once you have competed all the questions on the exam, you can review your answers or click on the "submit" button; your exam will be graded and you will immediately be given your score.

Did I pass? No Waiting for your Grades

The minimal passing score for the state of Florida and the ABO/NCLE is 70%.

By rules of the Florida Board of Opticianry you will not be able to retake the same course or exam once if score under 70%*.

With a passing score you will have immediate access to a downloadable continuing education certificate as proof of completion and the C.E. credit is also automatically uploaded to the State of Florida's C.E. tracking web site within the prescribed time limit.

How Many is Too Many?

Florida opticians are permitted up five hours of “home study” C.E. during the two-year licensing period. ** C.E. courses in an account are not transferable to another person; only you can receive credits for hours successfully completed under that account name and license number.

* You must pass the examination in order to receive continuing professional education credit for the course. Re-examination of a participant who has failed the examination is prohibited. FAC 64B12-15.008 (d)

** A maximum of 5 hours of continuing professional education may be earned from “Home Study” courses. FAC 64B12-15.001(2)

Privacy & Security Policy

Your privacy and security is very important to us. Professional Opticians of Florida will not sell, rent or otherwise provide any personal or public information collected about you collected from our web sites to any third party vendor, supplier or advertiser for the purpose of solicitation or otherwise. POF will, as required by law, provide pertinent information on your earned continuing education credits to the State of Florida Department of Health's online continuing education tracking service www.cebroker.com within the prescribed time.

This is a secure site. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).