When completed, the 50,000 square foot School of Optometry will include two large lecture halls, academic/clinical laboratories, the school library, break-out/study rooms, multiple clinical research laboratories, computer laboratories, multiple conference rooms, the bookstore, student, faculty, and staff dining rooms, and an examination hall. Another 15,000 square feet will be occupied by a Vision and Eye Care Clinic that will provide critical eye care services, on a means-tested fee basis, to San Antonio residents, many of whom will be minority and low income. The Vision and Eye Care Clinic will be equipped with the most advanced instruments and technology, and when operating at full capacity, licensed faculty optometrists and the doctor of optometry will serve up to 30,000 patients annually.
