Are you traveling to a lot of conferences this year? Do you want extra money in your pocket to help pay off those student loans? Well here are some scholarships from Optometry Cares available now! Vision West, Inc. Scholarship for InfantSEE Winner: $7,500 scholarship Runner up: $3,000 scholarship Student must be in the class of 2019, […]
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Part two of our “Meet the OptometryStudents.com Team” spotlights one of the most involved optometry students in existence, Christopher Lopez. Chris is a fourth year student at the University of Houston College of Optometry. He is involved in many student organizations, clinical research, and organized optometric groups. At 6’2” and 200lbs of pure muscle, he somehow
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Beignets and king cakes are just the beginning of how sweet Louisiana is. The state of Louisiana boasts some of the sweetest laws that support our profession of optometry. The Optometry Association of Louisiana (OAL) has worked hard to promote optometry and widen our scope of practice. While most other states have inclusive laws for optometry,
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Marcus Noyes is a 4th year optometry student at the University of Houston College of Optometry. He was born and raised in the Field of Dreams (Iowa) and will be graduating in 2018. Marcus joined the OptometryStudents.com team in January of this year and has been a productive and influential component of the
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We are so grateful to our two writers who are recent graduates of the class of 2017 for all of their hard work and dedication. We wanted to take a moment to thank them and share their words of wisdom and advice for current optometry students: Sloan Rajadhyksha (Berkeley) Sloan is the outgoing Director of Clinical Content,
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I started first year of optometry school not working because classes were pretty intense and I didn’t think I would have time to work. As first year was finishing, I knew I would only have one summer off and the question of what I should do during the summer kept coming up. There were a
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I’m a first-year student at UHCO who moved down from Iowa to start optometry school. It can be a difficult transition for some, and one might even begin to doubt if optometry school is the best place for you. We have all had those thoughts. Here is my story: August 10th, 2016 was the day
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Making the right connections in school can set you up for amazing job opportunities. Even if you are a first or second year and up to your ears in schoolwork, you should still be out there at events like Optometry’s Meeting and AOA+, to help integrate yourself into the professional setting. But if you are
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Known as the Bluegrass State, Kentucky is famous for its beautiful horses and bourbon. Unfortunately, it is also a region plagued with the highest rate of vision loss due to secondary factors such as diabetes and hypertension. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on the U.S. counties with the highest prevalence of severe vision
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The Texas Optometric Association (TOA) recently held its 117th annual conference in Austin, Texas. Attendees ranged from undergraduate pre-optometry students to optometrists with decades of experience in practice. Much like other optometry conferences, (Academy, Optometry’s Meeting, etc.) there was a vast schedule of events to attend throughout the weekend. Here’s a recap of the entire weekend
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