Author name: Joan Browne

Senior Ocular Disease Journalist - Hi everyone! I am a 3rd-year student at Pacific University College of Optometry, and a self-proclaimed eye nerd. After visiting OptometryStudents.com for the 100th time, it dawned on me that it might be a good idea to do a little bit of contributing myself. I am excited to help positively impact the image of optometry, while maybe learning a thing or two along the way! Find Joan on Google+.

White Coats and Blue Skies: 3rd Year Summer at Pacific University College of Optometry

When I wrote up the title for this article, I couldn’t help but sit back and smile for a moment. Pacific University College of Optometry’s class of 2015 has come a long way, and it feels great to take a second to look back at where we’ve been. From my conversations with students from other […]

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Direct Ophthalmoscope: The Ultimate Pediatric Screening Tool

Whether you’re in a nice quiet exam room or a noisy cafeteria at a school screening, the chances are that your pediatrics patient is going to have the attention span of a small woodland creature. A few of the main concerns with a pediatric patient are to rule out strabismus, amblyopia, and other ambylogenic factors

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May 2013 – Students in Focus, Babette Laumeister and Simon Hauser

If you think it’s hard to make sense of all the jargon in a physiological optics lecture, just imagine doing so as a brand new student in a whole new country! That’s what Babette Laumeister and Simon Hauser, two students from the optometry program at Aalen University, are currently doing at Pacific University in Forest

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A Summary of AREDS 1 and AREDS 2

We’ve been waiting for a while now for the other shoe to drop about exactly how nutritional supplementation affects the progression of non-exudative age-related macular degeneration. Back in 2001, the original National Eye Institute’s Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS) gave us some answers while also raising even more questions. The study showed that some vitamin

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Ocular Diagnosis I Always Have to Google

The optometry student’s brain is a funny thing. Sometimes, I only need to hear something once, and it is ingrained in me forever. More often than not, however, I find myself sheepishly looking over my shoulder during the middle of lecture as I punch the same things into Google over and over again. The professor

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