DID YOU KNOW? The United States has incarcerated more people than any other country in the world. Currently, there are approximately 2 million inmates in state, federal and private prisons across the country. To put this into perspective, the United States holds 25 percent of the world’s prison population, but only 5 percent of the …
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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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Who said optometrists were boring people? Dr. Garret Wada has certainly proven that notion wrong. He was known as a bit of a “Trekkie” since before his days as a student at the Illinois College of Optometry back in the early 90’s, and has since turned his love for the iconic television series into a …
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Did you know that approximately 10 percent of Americans have hearing loss, making it the second most common disability in the United States?1  In Canada, there are 50 percent more people with reported hearing loss than those with vision problems.2  Hearing loss has many causes, including genetics, age, and injury. There are a number of disorders that …
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I am a big proponent of space exploration and I’ve always been interested in astronomy and everything you see in sci-fi movies. Â If I could, I would be an astronaut myself, but the closest I ever got was getting a telescope at age 9 and joining my alma mater’s Space Society. Â So, it was no …
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I know what you’re thinking.  “Forensic Optometry? What???” That was my reaction too when I first heard about this field during my undergraduate years at the University of Waterloo (UW) followed by an overwhelming sense of excitement.  You see, I was and still am a little infatuated with forensic sciences. Television shows like CSI, Dexter, …
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Here at OS.com, we are grateful to our recent graduates of the class of 2016 for all of their hard work. We wanted to take a moment to thank them and share their words of wisdom and advice for current optometry students: Ben Emer (Illinois College Of Optometry) Ben was the outgoing Editor-in-chief of OptometryStudents.com, starting as a …
In my fourth year of optometry school, I had the enriching experience of working within the Indian Health Services (IHS) during my placement in Montana. This opportunity not only proved to be highly rewarding but also sparked my interest in an unconventional career path within the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. Surprisingly, this option …
I thought about going back to school long before my life became a melodramatic episode of some cheap sit-com. I was going to go to a physician assistant program. I figured out what I was going to do, I told everyone what I was going to do, and promptly did nothing about it. Until my girlfriend, …
Last week, optometrists and students from across the country gathered in Boston for Optometry’s Meeting, the American Optometric Association’s biggest conference. Attendees had opportunities to strengthen their careers through continuing education classes, events, and networking. OptometryStudents.com had a strong presence, with our editors and writers in attendance. There were many student-only events, along with celebrations and …
