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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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Dry Eye Disease and its Implications on Visual Function

Articles, Clinical Optometry / By / 2 minutes of reading

Today I bring a small contribution entitled: Dry eye disease and its implications on visual function. I am an Optometry Student at the Specialized University of Americas in Panama city, Central America. What is dry eye? According to the report of the Definition and Classification Subcomité of the International Dry Eye WorkShop in 2007: We can define this …

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The Unconventional Optometrist: Forensic Optometry

Articles, Optometry School, Post-Optometry School, Pre-Optometry School / By / 3 minutes of reading

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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Free Optometric Pediatrics Brochure For Your Patients

Articles, Clinical Optometry / By / 4 minutes of reading

I recently was studying some common vision problems that occur in children and the signs and symptoms associated with these problems. I realized that as a profession, we can raise significant awareness about vision problems so long as we provide the right messaging to our patients. With that being said, I decided to create this brochure “10 …

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Clinical Guide to Degenerative Myopia

Articles, Clinical Optometry / By / 11 minutes of reading

This article was created to educate students on the basics of degenerative myopia. But really there is something deeper here. The authors felt that patients with high myopia really rely on their optometrist at yearly eye exams and these patients want to feel confident in their OD. Patients with high myopia can have vision threatening …

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Pediatric Vision Care – An Essential Health Benefit

Articles, Organized Optometry / By / 2 minutes of reading

The politics of the optometry profession, what goes on in the news and behind the scenes, have a huge influence on the way the profession can be practiced, this among many other things.  We are lucky enough to have well organized and motivated advocates in the form of the AOA, practicing ODs and optometry students …

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Different Avenues to Practice Vision Therapy

Articles, Clinical Optometry / By / 3 minutes of reading

As I move forward through Optometry school, I am finding that many students (as well as faculty) have created this dichotomy within the profession: It is either ocular disease or vision rehabilitation.  I challenge you to think outside of that… from the vision rehabilitation side, the options are endless.  Here are just a few:   …

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Optometry’s Meeting 2012 – Chicago

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The Optometry’s Meeting is an annual meeting consisting of a multitude of ophthalmic professions, all gathered together in one place, to educate, network with, and entertain one another. It is the utmost invaluable event for optometry and ophthalmic professions. The “Optometry’s Meeting® is a combined meeting, bringing together the annual meetings of the American Optometric …

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Optometry’s Place within Hospitals

Articles, Healthcare / By / 3 minutes of reading

As we consider our careers in optometry after graduation, one modality of practice that often gets overlooked is that within hospitals. The 2006 AOA scope of practice survey showed that 11% of ODs have hospital privileges. The question becomes what can you as the optometrist do in a hospital setting? There are various roles for …

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