I. Love. New York. Don’t worry, I promise this isn’t going to be another soapbox rant from a self-involved New Yorker. You know, the ones where they tell you all about New York’s 24/7 convenience, its seemingly infinite amount of entertainment, its rich cultural populace and its amazingly efficient public transportation? I hate that. Instead, […]
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The spring months in the year preceding optometry school are when everything starts to fall into place. By this time, you know where you’ll be going to school, have sorted out your financial aid paperwork, have been in contact with some of your future classmates, and have decided on your future roommates. The next big
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Malpractice Insurance: What every optometry student should know. An interview with Kevin Johnson, Vice President at Lockton Affinity Malpractice insurance is like the birds and bees talk. Parents generally avoid it, but if they don’t give their child “The Talk,” the child may make a mistake that could affect them for the rest of their
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Hallucination vs. Illusion: Hallucination is sensory perception of things that are not there and persist with eye closure. Illusion is misperception of viewed objects. What is Charles Bonnet Syndrome (CBS)? CBS is classified under hallucination and may occur in patients with visual acuity loss, visual field loss or reduced contrast sensitivity (1, 2). It may
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[vc_column_text width=”5/6″ el_position=”first”] Android phones make up roughly half of the smartphones that are used in America, however, their presence is often ignored next to the popular iPhone. With smartphones we are have a wide wealth of information accessible to us in a matter of seconds. This list of free Android apps will make finding
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Entering her fourth year at Southern College of Optometry, Christina “Tina” Grosshans will undoubtedly excel in her final year of optometry school. She served SCO as president of SVOSH for the 2012-2013 academic year, which is how I came to know her, as we both just returned from our SVOSH trip to Belize last month.
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OptomCAS is opening again in just a few weeks and potential applicants have to select schools to apply to. There are many different things to consider, making it a tough process. I certainly could not make up my mind for a while. So here are some tips to help potential applicants narrow down the search:
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If you’ve seen a movie in the last fifty years or so, chances are you witnessed the work of an optometrist and you didn’t even know it. Dr. Morton Greenspoon of Professional VisionCare Associates in Sherman Oaks, California, is a contact lens specialist and a consultant to the major film studios [1]. He is a
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ATTENTION ALL STUDENTS, PHOTOGRAPHERS, AND CAMERA PHONE USERS! OptometryStudents.com will be at this year’s Optometry’s Meeting in sunny San Diego from June 26-30th, which means that it’s time for another social media contest! For those of you who haven’t participated in our social media contests before and don’t know what it’s about, it’s easy: Take
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As graduation caps come flying off and summer heats up, many anxious pre-optometry students are also getting ready to take the next big step – the first year of optometry school. Nobody said it was going to be easy. This sentence will resonate volumes when those tough stretches of exams start coming around and are relentless
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