FAQs

Thirty (30) days before the License Interview. 

Please contact the office for specific interview dates, which vary throughout the year.

The Board License Interview is given in conjuction with a regular WV Board of Optometry Board meeting. Please email the Board at info@wvbo.org for more information about upcoming interview dates.

The Board’s rule, §14-01-03, lists the documents required to be submitted with the application. One additional piece of information must be added that began to be required in 2011 is a passing score on the NBEO’s injection examination or ISE.  More information on the injection administration requirements is listed in Laws and Rules Governing Optometry, §14-11, and the Injection Packet.

BY MAIL:

West Virginia Board of Optometry

179 Summers Street

Suite 231

Charleston, WV 25301

 

PHONE: (304) 558-5901, 

FAX: (304) 558-5908

 

EMAIL: info@wvbo.org

Please click here or email us at info@wvbo.org for a complaint form. Once filed with the WVBO the optometrist has 30 days to respond in writing to the Board.

The West Virginia Board of Optometry oversees optometrists in West Virginia.

Fee refunds are a part of the individual doctor’s office policy and not in our jurisdiction. Complaints about the quality of eye care you recieved or the proper correction of your eye problem and eye health are always invesitgated by the Board. Complaints that are found to be under the jurisdiction of another agency, such as the Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Division, are forwarded by the Board to those agencies.

Visit our public registry here for a list of active licensed Optometrists in West Virginia

Write to 179 Summers Street, Suite 231, Charleston, WV 25301 or email us at info@wvbo.org

The fee is $25.00 per written verification. The fee for the entire list of all WV licensed optometrists is $200.00.

You may contact us in writing via fax or e-mail.

40 hours every two-year reporting period (updated by WV Legislature in March 2024)

Licensed Optometrists in WV are required to complete 40 hours of Continuing Education every two years, due by June 30th of every even numbered.


The West Virginia Legislature updated the CE Requirements in March 2024:

A minimum of 12 CE hours in ocular pharmacology or therapeutics.

No limit of hours taken in practice management. 

No drug diversion CE is required for renewal.

A maximum of 10 hours of study may be taken by correspondence or the internet.

ALL licensees must take at least 2 hours of CE in injections.   

Seven (7) years from the date of the last visit.

June 30th of every year.