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Message to Pre-Optometry Students and Incoming First Year Optometry Students

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I’m an incoming first year student in the class of 2016 at the Illinois College of Optometry.  This last weekend I had an amazing time at Optometry’s Meeting 2012 in Chicago!  I worked at the OptometryStudents.com booth in the exhibition hall on Saturday and had an incredible experience meeting and networking with enthusiastic optometry students, […]

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Optometry in Puerto Rico: The Desire for Equality

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As a collective group of students, we are motivated and excited about our future careers as ODs, and with great reason! The profession of Optometry grows in scope almost daily and our relationship in the United States with Ophthalmologists is harmonious. The dedicated ODs before us triumphed in their pursuits locally and Federally to give

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Student of the Month June 2012 – Mallori Aschenbrenner; SCCO 2013

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June 2012 Optometry Student of the Month Name: Mallori Aschenbrenner School: SCCO Year: 2013 1. Congrats on winning Student of the Month! – Please tell us exactly why you won student of the month? I earned the highest score nationwide on NBEO part 1 (March 2012 administration) and subsequently received the Norman E. Wallis Award for Excellence

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Urgent Message from Dr. Dori Carlson and the AOA

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AOS court case threatens our physician status June 21, 2012 An Urgent Message from AOA President Dori Carlson, O.D. While most of the American Optometric Society (AOS) lawsuit against the American Board of Optometry (ABO) has been defeated even before going to trial, the lone remaining claim will damage the profession and disrupt AOA advocacy. The

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Clinical Guide to Degenerative Myopia

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This article was created to educate students on the basics of degenerative myopia. But really there is something deeper here. The authors felt that patients with high myopia really rely on their optometrist at yearly eye exams and these patients want to feel confident in their OD. Patients with high myopia can have vision threatening

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Pediatric Vision Care – An Essential Health Benefit

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The politics of the optometry profession, what goes on in the news and behind the scenes, have a huge influence on the way the profession can be practiced, this among many other things.  We are lucky enough to have well organized and motivated advocates in the form of the AOA, practicing ODs and optometry students

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Medicare eRX Incentives: ODs Net $2 Million

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According to the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), in its second year, the Medicare Electronic-Prescribing (eRx) Incentive Program, has issued over 2 million dollars to optometrists in bonus payments. Each optometrist who qualified for payments during 2010 (around 936) received an average of $2,462.40, and incentive payments to optometrists ranged from $23,277.04

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Optometry’s Meeting 2012 – Chicago

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The Optometry’s Meeting is an annual meeting consisting of a multitude of ophthalmic professions, all gathered together in one place, to educate, network with, and entertain one another. It is the utmost invaluable event for optometry and ophthalmic professions. The “Optometry’s Meeting® is a combined meeting, bringing together the annual meetings of the American Optometric

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Medicare issuing separate 10% EHR bonuses to HPSA practitioners

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From the American Optometric Association: Medicare issuing separate 10% EHR bonuses to HPSA practitioners Health care practitioners who qualified for Medicare Electronic Health Records (EHR) Incentives last year while practicing in federally recognized Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSA) will be getting an additional bonus payment for their participation in the program – that is, if they

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