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Private Practice Management: An interview with Evan Kestenbaum

Private practice optometry can be very rewarding, but also comes with great responsibility. Managing a private practice requires a great deal of planning and strategy. I recently had the opportunity to interview Evan Kestenbaum, a leader in optometric management. Evan is the co-founder of the private practice management company Gateway Provider Network, which offers incredibly […]

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Mastering optics: Team-based learning is the key

Having spent only one week on optics in my undergraduate physics course, I was apprehensive to face the subject during my entire first year in optometry school.  Shortly before our first lecture in our optics course, I received the syllabus.  Actually, I studied the syllabus, as we had a quiz on it in our first

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Southern College of Optometry Provides Over $1 Million in Uncompensated Healthcare

Southern College of Optometry (SCO) recently announced it provided $1,043,530 in uncompensated optometric care to the Memphis, Tenn., community during the 2011-2012 fiscal year. The school distributed its services through outreach programs with the optometry school and its Eye Center. Though the majority of patients received attention at the Eye Center, other services were provided through vision

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Find YOUR perfect optometry residency with ORMatch

Overview of ORMatch The Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry (ASCO) and National Matching Services Inc. collaborated to provide an organized process for applicants and residency hopefuls to pair with each other and find the ideal postgrad fit.  Welcome to ORMatch, the application and matching service that places applicants into optometry residency training positions.

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Sports Vision: A Growing Optometric Specialty

“Vision is the trigger mechanism controlling the athlete’s first move.” – Martin WF: What the coach should know about the vision of athletes “If an athlete is not visually fit, he is certainly not physically fit.” – Garner AI: Visual aid prescribing for the athlete The two statements above were reiterated in a must-read article titled “Overview

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Free Optometric Pediatrics Brochure For Your Patients

I recently was studying some common vision problems that occur in children and the signs and symptoms associated with these problems. I realized that as a profession, we can raise significant awareness about vision problems so long as we provide the right messaging to our patients. With that being said, I decided to create this brochure “10

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Basic Treatments for Myopia Progression – Anti-muscarinic Drops Win

Reported in the Review of Optometry, various methods utilized for slowing myopia progression were compared in efficacy and potential side effects. Looking at data from 23 randomized controlled trials, including 4,696 participants, pediatric eye doctors and study methodologists have found that anti-muscarinic eye drops provide the greatest effect on controlling the progression of myopia, but

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