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Cuts To Medicade Will Impact Vision Care

It is important that NYSOA members contact the legislators identified on the attached document to share their opposition to this proposal. This message is brought to you by the NYSOA and was forwarded to my SUNY Optometry E-mail and is NOT an original article by OptometryStudents.com If you are a pre-optometry student applying to optometry …

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How To Master Retinoscopy In Optometry School

  Update 06-13-17: Check out our refreshed Ret article on how to “Step Up Your Retinoscopy Skills”    This is a ‘How-To’ article for retinoscopy and it is especially useful for first-year optometry students. For pre-optometry students or optometry who are unfamiliar with the technique please check out the link to the simulator at the …

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Salus Optometry School Interview (PCO)

The Successful Interview For my first optometry school interview, I was naturally apprehensive.  I, like many other optometry school applicants, had already graduated from college.  And although I had set myself back a year, so to speak, by delaying my application, I had used the extra time to gain more shadowing experience in optometry, as …

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1st Year Assessments In Optometry School

In Optometry School you are graded on your written exam’s and for assessments. The assessments take place in the lab (mock optometry exam room) and students are required to preform eye tests on staff or other students. So throughout the semester you are typically assessed on 1 procedure at a time, although final assessments may …

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Universal Health Care & Optometry – Key Moments In The Debate

This important status update regarding the effects of universal health care on optometry is brought to you by Randolph E. Brooks, O.D. the president of the AOA. He was kind enough to send us SUNY students this message and now here it is for you all. I hope you can all review the article and …

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