During my interview with Dr. Chad Fleming OD, FAAO, he mentioned to me 3 attributes that any aspiring optometry student needs to develop in order to be a successful optometrist. The first attribute he mentioned was communication and how important it was to be able to express yourself to your professors, staff doctors, and […]
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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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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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A little over 9 months ago, I was sitting in one of SUNY’s classrooms for orientation along with 87 others, very eager to get my 1st year started. As I look back, it truly amazes me how much we have all grown and learned in such a short amount of time. I feel proud to
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What do the Memphis Blues, travel grants, and Tobradex all have in common? It must be Student Bowl 2013 at Southern College of Optometry (SCO)! Southern College of Optometry’s chapter of the American Optometric Student Association (AOSA) hosted the evening, which featured 10 of the college’s brightest students from the first, second, and third-year classes.
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The optometry student’s brain is a funny thing. Sometimes, I only need to hear something once, and it is ingrained in me forever. More often than not, however, I find myself sheepishly looking over my shoulder during the middle of lecture as I punch the same things into Google over and over again. The professor
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