When I wrote up the title for this article, I couldn’t help but sit back and smile for a moment. Pacific University College of Optometry’s class of 2015 has come a long way, and it feels great to take a second to look back at where we’ve been. From my conversations with students from other …
White Coats and Blue Skies: 3rd Year Summer at Pacific University College of Optometry Read More »
Whether you’re in a nice quiet exam room or a noisy cafeteria at a school screening, the chances are that your pediatrics patient is going to have the attention span of a small woodland creature. A few of the main concerns with a pediatric patient are to rule out strabismus, amblyopia, and other ambylogenic factors …
Direct Ophthalmoscope: The Ultimate Pediatric Screening Tool Read More »
Sometimes, your patient won’t know the name of their medication, but they will almost always know the color of the cap. The first time someone told me they took the “one with the blue cap” 2 times a day, I had no idea what they meant! If I had known that blue caps are often …
Name That Cap: An Ocular Drug List Classified by Cap Color Read More »
If you think it’s hard to make sense of all the jargon in a physiological optics lecture, just imagine doing so as a brand new student in a whole new country! That’s what Babette Laumeister and Simon Hauser, two students from the optometry program at Aalen University, are currently doing at Pacific University in Forest …
May 2013 – Students in Focus, Babette Laumeister and Simon Hauser Read More »
We’ve been waiting for a while now for the other shoe to drop about exactly how nutritional supplementation affects the progression of non-exudative age-related macular degeneration. Back in 2001, the original National Eye Institute’s Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS) gave us some answers while also raising even more questions. The study showed that some vitamin …
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 …
