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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Distance PD is the distance between the pupils when viewing a distant target. Near PD is the distance between the pupils when viewing a near target. Near Centration Distance (CD) is the distance between the visual axes in a spectacle plane when viewing a near target. Near PD is actually impossible to measure unless you […]
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It has been a very fulfilling year for us at OptometryStudents.com Many of our team members have completed their first semester in Optometry School and some of our other staff members have been accepted into Optometry school. Everyone here at OptometryStudents.com would like to wish you happy holidays and a happy new year. Our gift
Lensometry What is lensometry? A lensometer measures vergence and prism power amongst other aspects of a lens. If a patient presents a pair of spectacles to you and does not know the Rx of the lenses, a lensometer will enable you to determine the sphere, cylinder, axis, and prism present in each lens. It can
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To my fellow optometric colleagues, If you find yourself as I once did, in the midst of a large school with numerous ominous exams and assessments, many of you may wonder how you would ever be able to have time to become involved with student association groups.  Well, believe me, it is much easier than
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To all you optometry students out there, here is a REALLY easy way to make a difference for the future of optometry, it will literally take you 2 minutes at most. All of those e-mail’s we have been getting from the AOA about health care reform have been urging us to contact congress by phone
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OAT Equations Today I will be going over the common equations found on the OAT. One of the most important aspects of the OAT is figuring out what equations are the most important to study. This is especially true for Physics and Quantitative Reasoning, but equations will be found in Biology and General Chemistry as
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NOTE* This article contains OAT Study Tips along with my $25.00 study method Do you know that it only cost me $25.00 dollars to study for my OAT exam? I took the test in August 2008 and while other students spent hundreds of dollars on books and courses I saved that money for traveling Europe.
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It is important that NYSOA members contact the legislators identified on the attached document to share their opposition to this proposal. This message is brought to you by the NYSOA and was forwarded to my SUNY Optometry E-mail and is NOT an original article by OptometryStudents.com If you are a pre-optometry student applying to optometry
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Update 06-13-17: Check out our refreshed Ret article on how to “Step Up Your Retinoscopy Skills” This is a ‘How-To’ article for retinoscopy and it is especially useful for first-year optometry students. For pre-optometry students or optometry who are unfamiliar with the technique please check out the link to the simulator at the
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