Author name: Jade McLachlin

Hey guys, my name is Jade and I am Canadian living in Florida as a fourth year optometry student. I am the head of social media as well as a writer for Optometry Students. My articles are based upon my personal experiences as a pre-optometry, an international student, and optometry student. I hope that these articles will offer help, guidance and direction to both pre-optometry and current optometry students. Make sure to follow us on instagram, facebook and twitter!

Tips for Helping the Children in Your Life

Encouraging Developing Eyes Beyond being an optometry student, you may be a parent, an aunt or uncle, a cousin, or a special friend to children whose visual needs are developing. By learning about toy safety, choosing to play with toys that help vision development, and spreading the word about InfantSee, you can be a positive …

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Top 10 Articles of 2018

Happy New Year 2019! Whether you are kicking off a new semester or beginning your final rotation (last semester, fourth year students!), the start of the new year gives a chance for reflection. As 2019 gets started, we wanted to share our top ten OptometryStudents articles from 2018. Scope of Practice articles What procedures, treatments, …

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Dry Eye – Drug Chart

Dry eye is constantly in the news and the way we treat it is always changing. We wanted to give you something that would help keep track of some of the prescription drugs, over the counter drugs, and artificial tears that you will commonly see in practice. We have broken it down into three main …

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Guide to Cap Colors and Commonly Prescribed Drugs

Have you ever been in clinic and suddenly lost the simplest of knowledge, like what the cap colors of certain drugs represent? Well fear no more! We have created a very simplified chart of some of the most commonly prescribed drugs and their cap colors. So the next time your patient comes in telling you …

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Optometry Cares Scholarships – Apply Now!

Are you traveling to a lot of conferences this year? Do you want extra money in your pocket to help pay off those student loans? Well here are some scholarships from Optometry Cares available now! Vision West, Inc. Scholarship for InfantSEE Winner: $7,500 scholarship Runner up: $3,000 scholarship Student must be in the class of 2019, …

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The Dreaded Rejection Letter – A Cinderella Story

Preface: This article was written when I was not accepted into optometry school in 2014. Luckily for me, I was accepted into Nova in 2015 (I am currently an OD2 student and I could not be happier!). For those of you who are applying or thinking about applying to optometry schools, you understand how stressful it …

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Surviving The Stresses Of Optometry School

Exams, boards, practicals, quizzes, assignments, and clinic are stresses that we all deal with in optometry school. How do you exactly take control over your stress? First things first, learn your personal signs of stress which can include stress eating (over eating or under eating), grinding your teeth, clenching your jaw, random changes in mood, becoming …

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Going to Academy? We’re Giving Away an Apple Watch!

  Academy has been the talk of the town lately and for a good reason! There are so many things you can accomplish during Academy with CE credits and the student fellowship. Many of the top optometrists attend Academy, and they are there for the same reason you are, to learn. We will be at the …

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Could Your Eyesight Be Affected By Dysfunctioning Cilia?

We all know that your eyes can be affected by many things such as your nutrition, your lifestyle, and the sun, but did you know that the cilia in your body could affect your eyesight? Cilia are hair like projections and are found in many organisms that have multiple functions. In humans, cilia are found …

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