Amplify your optometry school experience and see what it means to get involved in our profession as the annual AOSA/AOA conference, Optometry’s Meeting, comes to the Music City, June 19-22, 2024. Optometry’s Meeting provides students a four-day, immersive experience in career development, clinical and practice management skill building, professional networking and advocacy alongside optometry’s leaders. […]
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As we have a firm step into a new era of optometry, it is important as a student to remember the importance in becoming the best possible refractionist that you can possibly become.  As I just finished my optometry schooling, I found that at times the art of writing a glasses or contact Rx could […]
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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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I thought that I knew what optometry was like when I finished my first year of school just a little over a month ago, but I had no idea! Prior to the end of the school year, I was fortunate enough to be elected as a trustee-elect for the American Optometric Students Association (AOSA), the
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OAT Test Prep: Physics Part 1 by: Dale Paynter Hey everyone, today I will be giving an overview of the Physics section for the OAT. This will be the first article in a multi-part series covering Physics. At the end of this article, we have free, exclusive optometrystudents.com practice problems! The Physics section covers material
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What can I do as an Optometrist? That answer is actually quite complex. There are many opportunities available to Optometrists that extend far beyond what most students are familiar with which often includes private practice and retail settings. As the scope of Optometry continues to grow, so do the types of careers Optometrists can choose
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The purpose of this article is to review the first year of optometry school in such a way that will give insight and offer a hand to optometry students entering their first year of optometry school. I am going to explore the quality of life in optometry school during the first year and I will
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Today we have an AMAZING article from OptometryStudents.com team member, Antonio Chirumbolo. I really have to give Antonio a round of applause for this article, a real 10/10 article packed with details that are useful for any first year optometry student attending ANY optometry school. He really stole the show with this article and it
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What’s up readers, fans and fellow students!? Today we have a guest article from Angelica Delgado, a SALUS 2014 Optometry Student who went above and beyond to learn more about optometry and to get herself involved in the profession. Her story is both inspiring and informative and it is students like her who will go
Pre-Optometry Students- What are you doing this summer? Read More »
I wanted to take a moment to extend an apology to all of the OptometryStudents.com readers and fans, an apology due to the lack of new articles and innovation on the website over the last 3 months. Looking at the post history for the last 2 months I see 1 article for April and 1
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