By Rae Huang SUNY 2013 Hundreds of optometrists, students, and vision science researchers gathered at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA for the annual American Academy of Optometry (AAO) meeting October 12-15, 2011. For optometry students interested in vision science research, the Academy meeting is a happy medium between networking based meetings like Optometry’s […]
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SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH – OptometryStudents.com would like to congratulate Dori Carlson, O.D on becoming the president of the American Optometric Association during Optometry’s Meeting on June 18th 2011. Dr. Carlson is the first ever, woman president of the AOA and is succeeding Joe Ellis O.D. Carlson told VMail, “Of course being the first woman AOA
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By: Matthew Geller – SUNY Optometry 2013 Warning: The article you are about to read is slightly exaggerated and was written to be comical representation, yet at the same time an authentic expression of the life of a 2nd year of optometry student. Strap on your white clinic coat because you are about to go
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[poll id=”15″] Completing a residency is an option available to optometry students, and although it is not mandatory, it is certainly an opportunity that is worth considering. Residencies are a means for students, who have graduated optometry school, to continue learning and training at the highest level. This additional educational experience allows the student to
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By: Thai Nguyen Western University 2013 Student In this month’s article, I wanted to highlight some my clerkship experiences at WesternU College of Optometry. I’m a firm believer that true learning occurs outside of the classroom. At WesternU, I’ve had the privilege of rotating through four clerkship sites, and learning from preceptors in the areas
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Part III of V By Dr. Paul Heeg Okay, you’re a third or fourth year optometry student and you see a ton of choices in front of you… you may ask: where to go from here? My advice would be not to get intimidated from all the choices, there certainly are quite a few! Research
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Welcome students to a brand new 5 article series by 2010 SUNY Graduate Dr. Paul Heeg! The article series will run for the next 5 weeks EVERY FRIDAY EVENING – so keep checking back for “First Year In Practice Friday’s” by Dr. Heeg. I was distant friends with Paul for about 4 years and I
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First off we would like to thank all of the optometry students who submitted responses to win the free set of NETTER’S ANATOMY flash cards. We hope that Chad Parks from the Illinois College of Optometry will use them to excel in his anatomy course! Congrats Chad, you are the winner! – Please use the
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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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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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