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Posted 06/02/2023
Optometry School, OptometryStudents.com, Study Resources / By Author: Easy Anyama

Amplify your optometry school experience and see what it means to get involved in our profession as the annual AOSA/AOA conference, Optometry’s Meeting, comes to the Music City, June 19-22, 2024. Optometry’s Meeting provides students a four-day, immersive experience in career development, clinical and practice management skill building, professional networking and advocacy alongside optometry’s leaders. …

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How to help minimize your student loan debt in optometry school

Articles, Finance & Business, Optometry School, Post-Optometry School, Study Break / By / 5 minutes of reading

There are not many topics that optometry students would care to discuss less than student loan debt. Aside from the few lucky ones who have a rich uncle to pick up their optometry school tab, student loans are a very real necessity of attending graduate school today and tuition rates are on the rise. But …

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Warm up with a free beanie from AOAExcel

Articles, Post-Optometry School, Study Break / By / 1 minute of reading

Hey class of 2018 and 2017 residents! Are you on the prowl for a job? We’ve got you covered! AOAExcel is offering a free beanie for activating your free account on Optometry’s Career Center. Activating your account will allow you to find career opportunities nationwide. Once you activate your free account, you will receive an …

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To Patch or Not to Patch: Summary of PEDIG Amblyopia Treatment Studies

Articles, Clinical Optometry / By / 4 minutes of reading

One of the most common topics discussed in the realm of pediatrics and binocular vision is amblyopia. Amblyopia is a visual disorder in which a lack of proper visual input during development impairs the visual pathway, resulting in decreased visual acuity. When it comes to treating amblyopia, an oftentimes controversial discussion revolves around patching. Patching …

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Food for Thought: Corporate Optometry

Articles, Finance & Business, Post-Optometry School / By / 4 minutes of reading

Thanksgiving is nearly upon us, and there are three topics you should avoid with your family: politics, religion, and corporate optometry. Let’s treat this article like the thanksgiving dinner table and avoid the first two. But just this once, we’ll break the rule on the third. Plenty of people have pretty strong opinions on corporate …

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Putting Patient Care at Risk? Federal Trade Commission Proposes Changes to Contact Lens Rule

Anterior Segment, Articles, Involvement, News, Organized Optometry / By / 4 minutes of reading

Late in 2016, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed changes to the Contact Lens Rule. The revisions would require contact lens prescribers (of which the majority are optometrists) to obtain a signed acknowledgment form after giving a patient their contact lens prescription. Furthermore, if the proposed rule were enacted, prescribers would have to maintain these acknowledgments for at …

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Paid Internship Available for First Years and New Grads at Essilor

Articles, Involvement, Optometry School, Post-Optometry School / By / 2 minutes of reading

After finishing your first year of optometry school or your last, many students and new doctors struggle with a very real world question: what will I do with my summer? Whether it be finding a job at a practice or waiting for the final pieces to come together for your license, many students and new grads find themselves …

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Optometry’s Fund for Disaster Relief

Articles, Involvement, News / By / 3 minutes of reading

Hundreds of thousands of people were affected by the unprecedented destruction delivered by hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, including optometry students, staff, and faculty at the University of Houston College of Optometry (UHCO), Inter American University of Puerto Rico (IAUPR)and Nova Southeastern University (Nova). In response to the disasters, the American Optometric Student Association (AOSA) and the …

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SVOSH trip to Mexico – University of Houston College of Optometry

Articles, Involvement, Optometry School, Study Break / By / 4 minutes of reading

In March, I went on a Student Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity (SVOSH) trip with eight other University of Houston College of Optometry (UHCO) students to the VOSH Guerrero clinic, which has been helping the indigenous population in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico for over three decades. We joined a group composed of two students from …

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