Scholarship Type: OPTOMETRY CARES – The AOA Foundation – 2011 InfantSEE® Scholarship Grant Sponsored by Vision West, Inc. Who: 3rd Year Students How Much: $5,000 & $2,500 What To Do: Write a 1,000 word paper on “How will you, as a primary health care provider, use your professional skills and patient treatment programs to further the […]
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Scholarship Type: 2011 DR. STANLEY PEARLE SCHOLARSHIP FUND by OneSight Research Foundation Who: 2012, 2013, 2014 students How Much: (20) scholarships for $2,000 each What To Do: Click Here For Application Procedure Due Date: April 15th 2011 URL: http://www.onesight.org/files/other/onesight_scholarship_guidelines.pdf
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First Year In Practice Fridays- Part V of V By Dr. Paul Heeg Over the past five weeks I have had the privilege to discuss ways in which you may become better prepared in your optometric profession. As a closing article, I would like us to do a little exercise, flashback to about 50 years
First Year In Practice FRIDAY’S – Part 4 of 5 By: Dr. Paul Heeg [poll id=”12″] I can imagine most of you reading this right now thinking to yourself: “Why should I care about this just yet? I am just trying to survive optometry school! “  Well, I think you have good point but you
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I said it before and I will say it again… …the profession of optometry faces pressures from the federal government, state governments, other medical professions and from optometrists themselves and it is the American Optometric Association (AOA) that keeps our profession healthy, growing and moving in a positive direction. To sum it up, if you
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Whoa! It feels good to be back writing articles! First thing I want to say is that 2nd year is much better than 1st year of Optometry School. The main reason is that I know what to expect and I am overall more knowledgeable about the process of how to learn, study, take a test
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First off we would like to thank all of the optometry students who submitted responses to win the free set of NETTER’S ANATOMY flash cards. We hope that Chad Parks from the Illinois College of Optometry will use them to excel in his anatomy course! Congrats Chad, you are the winner! – Please use the
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Today is our FIRST EVER raffle on OptometryStudents.com – One lucky winner will be receiving a full comprehensive deck of Netters Anatomy Flash Cards– a superb study resource for anyone trying to master anatomy in optometry school. The raffle ends on FRIDAY September 17th 2010 and a winner will be decided shortly after. First, a
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This is a continuation of Dr. Won’s FIRST article –Insights From Dr. Won So what exactly do I do? I’m an O.D. that works for another O.D. that leases her office within a large optical chain (Lenscrafters in our case). It is a long-established office that has been at the location for 27 years. Neither
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Today we have an urgent news post from NECO Students– Jeff Cohn, Mirage Shah and the OD’s of Massachusetts. We want to encourage all Optometry Students to do a great thing for the profession of optometry- help to get a bill passed that will allow OD’s to treat Glaucoma in the state of Massachusetts. By
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