It appears that the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences is planning to open a new optometry school. The dean of the new school, Dr. Lesley Walls, has been named, and the location of the future program has been announced. The new school will be located at the college’s Lincoln Square Living and Learning […]
What is Neuro Optometric Rehabilitation? Look to NORA to Find Out By: Carl Garbus, O.D., FAAO The Neuro Optometric Rehabilitation Association INTL (NORA) was established 20 years ago as an organization to bring together practitioners of all fields that help in the rehabilitation of the patient with traumatic brain injury, stroke or neurological deficits. NORA
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Want a valuable news resource that not many students know about? Well, recently I stumbled on a great quarterly newsletter called the “Eyes On The Future” (ETOF) – its actually an AOA publication but I found it to be really valuable. As students we are pretty busy studying and busting our butts in clinic during 10 hour
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This article was written by the best and brightest optometry students out there in our profession. The OptometryStudents.com team was responsible for crafting this article that is more of a collage of different views crafted into one masterpiece of student perspective. As senior editor of OptometryStudents.com, I tip my hat to the writers of this article who
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By: Dan Strybos – SALUS Optometry School 2012 As optometric students, we face the unique challenge of taking information presented in a classroom setting and recognizing it in a clinical setting. Students often struggle to translate classroom knowledge to clinical success. This series will present “can’t miss” clinical scenarios and the proper diagnosis and treatment
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By: Antonio Chirumbolo SUNY Optometry 2013 After the joint efforts of Optometrists and Optometry students all over the United States, the 2011 AOA Congressional Advocacy Conference was a huge success. Adam B. Weiss, Assistant Director of Political Affairs of the American Optometric Association had these encouraging words of advice for us students: “The Congressional Advocacy
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By: Antonio Chirumbolo SUNY Optometry 2013 The scope of practice in Ontario, Canada expanded in April 2011, with new privileges in prescribing medications earned by Optometrists. Optometrists can now prescribe medications to treat various eye and eye related conditions such as bacterial and viral eye infections, CLARE, glaucoma, as well as eye pain and allergies
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By: Antonio Chirumbolo SUNY Optometry 2013 The AOA is offering a complimentary webinar series for it’s members. This is the perfect opportunity for Optometrists, Paraoptometrics, Office Managers, Staff and Administrators to gain valuable insight into many exciting topics. OptometryStudents.com recommends that all students check out the webinar for valuable insight into these important topics! The
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VSP, the largest non-profit vision care provider in the United States, has in a sense increased its scope of services, by opening an optical dispensary in San Jose, CA, inside the Cisco Campus. Now a direct provider of eyewear, what does this mean for practicing Optometrists? Will the private practice doctors suffer as a result
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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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