It is with great pleasure that the OptometryStudents.com team is excited to announce an iPad2 giveaway! Optometrystudents.com will have an official presence and booth on the exhibit floor at this year’s Optometry’s Meeting in Salt Lake City, and what better way to celebrate than to give one determined student a new iPad 2! In this article, […]
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Article by: Antonio Chirumbolo & Matthew Geller (SUNY 2013) March 15, 2011 was a monumental day for our profession. The American Optometric Association (AOA) announced its partnership with the 3D @ Home Consortium, with the goal of improving the understanding of 3D viewing amongst individuals all over the world. Both parties signed a Memorandum of Understanding
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On Thursday February 24th 2011 the Kentucky Optometric Association achieved a massive victory for the state of Kentucky, its OD’s and patients and of course for the profession of Optometry. Specifically, the KOA worked long and hard to get a new piece of legislation passed that would improve access to quality eye care. The bill is called
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Have you ever been to the Vision Expo? Well if you have not you really should think twice about going this year. [poll id=”18″] Dates: Vision Expo East – March 16 – 20, 2011, in New York City, NY. Vision Expo West – September 20 – 24, 2011, in Las Vegas, NV. Student Links: Vision
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Today is the first ever audio interview on OptometryStudents.com! With many more audio and video interviews planned we are very excited to kick off this new feature. The interview is with Dr. Mike Veliky, Secretary & Treasurer and Center Director of the Rochelle Park Office of OMNI Eye Services in New Jersey. Prior to working with
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[poll id=”17″] This is a re-post of the Frequently Asked Questions document for the HPSP Air Force Scholarship, created by the U.S Airforce. I want to be an optometrist, but I don’t have the money to pay for optometry school. Can the Air Force help me? Yes. The Air Force offers a Health Professions Scholarship
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[poll id=”14″] Did you hear about the changes that will be occurring to the National Board Exam, beginning for the class of 2012? The Part III Clinical Skills Examination (CSE) will be taking place, NOT at your college of optometry but instead at a single testing site in Charlotte, North Carolina! Normally, the twice-yearly Part III
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Today’s article serves the purpose of giving you a quick and general overview of the National Board Exams (NBEO). For more detailed information about the boards refer to future articles. ** Keep in mind, I took all of this information from www.Optometry.org and Newsletter – The OFFICIAL website for the NBEO. OptometryStudents.com is not affiliated or
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Did you know that the president elect of the AOA is touring the entire country to visit all of the optometry schools to talk to us students? I didn’t know either until I got the tip from a friend that she was going to make her way to SUNY in the near future. This is
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Welcome to a new feature here on OptometryStudents.com called “Scholarship Alert”. This feature will allow you to be alerted to scholarships that are available to Optometry Students. We all know that paying our way through school is perhaps the most difficult thing us students will face, so why not try to earn some scholarship money?
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