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What to Expect in the Year Preceding Optometry School: Eyeing the Future – Part 2

Articles, Pre-Optometry School / By / 6 minutes of reading

The winter months in the year preceding optometry school can be an exciting time for many students. By this time, many optometry school applicants have completed their applications and have already gone through the stressful interview process. Now they are faced with the very difficult decision of selecting which school they will attend for the […]

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Interview with Dr. Pal: A Private Practice Optometrist Specializing in Contact Lenses

Articles, Optometry School / By / 8 minutes of reading

OptometryStudents.com had the pleasure of talking with Dr. Pal of Toronto, ON following a presentation on toric soft contact lenses at PCO. Dr. Pal is a graduate of SCCO. Upon graduation Dr. Pal completed a residency at the Northeastern State University Oklahoma College of Optometry in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Dr. Pal has taught at both NSUOCO

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An Evening With The EΨE Optometric Fraternity and a Look Into Ohio State College of Optometry

Articles, Pre-Optometry School / By / 5 minutes of reading

After going through four different interviews, I did not think this experience was going to be any different. The other schools had offered the usual amenities of any interview day: a tour of campus, meetings with students and faculty, and of course free food! The only difference was this time I was staying at the

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What to Expect in the Year Preceding Optometry School: Eyeing The Future – Part 1

Articles, Pre-Optometry School / By / 5 minutes of reading

The fall months in the year preceding optometry school are full of the unknown for many anxious applicants. Not only is filling out the OptomCAS application stressful, but even just deciding which schools to apply to can be overwhelming. These months are also filled with interviews and acceptances for many students. Students are often unsure

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How to Effectively Communicate Diagnoses to Patients: In Layman’s Terms

Articles, Clinical Optometry / By / 7 minutes of reading

“Unless you’ve got an optical engineer in your exam chair, reciting names of Zernike polynomials as possible explanations for a patient’s night-time blur is gonna get you nowhere.” After several years of practice and several thousand patients, you’ll definitely get the hang of how to explain things in an efficient manner so that your patients

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Two Cases of Anterior Uveitis: Systemic Association or Idiopathic?

Articles, Clinical Optometry / By / 5 minutes of reading

Introduction This month I am combining two cases of anterior uveitis as both of them pointed to an association to a systemic disease. The first patient was seen by me. The second patient was seen at a community health center, where I followed a fourth year student. Age/Sex/Race 42 year old Caucasian female Chief Complaint “My

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Vision Expo East 2013 From The Eyes of Optometry Students: 50 Photos Inside!

Articles, Events, Optometry School / By / 10 minutes of reading

Vision Expo East for optometry students is something special. Typically we see a big showing of east coast schools, but this year we saw students come from as far as Berkeley! It is special because of the energy in the air and the amount of networking and information exchange that is happening. It is an

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**Important Message to All Who Participated in Our Social Media Contest at Vision Expo East**

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Thanks to everyone who participated in our social media contest! We’re sorry for the confusion as to why some of your pictures aren’t posting to the hashtag search #OSvisionexpo, but we found out why! It is because your twitter and/or Instagram accounts needed to be set as “public” in order for the hashtag to show

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March 2013 Optometry Student in Focus: Abby Jakob, ICO 2014

Articles, Involvement, Optometry School / By / 4 minutes of reading

Congratulations to Abby Jakob for being this month’s “Optometry Student in Focus!”  Abby hails from Ontario, Canada and is currently a 3rd year student at the Illinois College of Optometry (ICO). Abby was nominated for her service and involvement in the ICO community. She is President of the ICO Leo Club President, which is a

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