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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The Successful Interview For my first optometry school interview, I was naturally apprehensive. I, like many other optometry school applicants, had already graduated from college. And although I had set myself back a year, so to speak, by delaying my application, I had used the extra time to gain more shadowing experience in optometry, as […]
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In Optometry School you are graded on your written exam’s and for assessments. The assessments take place in the lab (mock optometry exam room) and students are required to preform eye tests on staff or other students. So throughout the semester you are typically assessed on 1 procedure at a time, although final assessments may
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Any pre-optometry student who is accepted to more than one optometry school must make a very important decision: where to attend optometry school. This is a very crucial decision to make because you will be spending the next 4 long years of your life at this institution. It will become your new home! You cannot
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This important status update regarding the effects of universal health care on optometry is brought to you by Randolph E. Brooks, O.D. the president of the AOA. He was kind enough to send us SUNY students this message and now here it is for you all. I hope you can all review the article and
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This is a continuation of the previous study tips article. Keep in mind these are specifically created for Optometry School and the OAT exam, although you could most likely apply them in any studying situation! By the way the picture is of me and some friends hanging out in NYC before midterms. Enjoy! THINK OF
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I wrote this article to provide advice to optometry students who need a boost in their confidence. It is an instructional article that will teach you how to adopt a mindset that will guide you through optometry school with a smile on your face. Midterms have now passed and students from optometry schools all over
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I sit on the Long Island Railroad heading from Long Island back to Astoria queens, I think about the midterms I just took in optometry school. What a challenge they were, studying an average of 7-8 hours per day everyday for 3 weeks takes soooo much out of you. It’s not like we had three
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Money Management Made Easy: Why Every Optometry Student Needs To Pay Attention To Their Finances! Today we have one for the Optometry Students out there who are struggling with student debt. This article provides the tools and strategies you need to manage student loan debt. One of the most intimidating aspects of optometry school is
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Hey everyone out there. This message has been forwarded to my SUNY Optometry school e-mail and it is regarding how optometry students can act to make sure that Optometry has a positive and secure future. Sorry for the quick message. Midterms are keeping me way to busy to post at the moment, but this is
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Welcome to my new OAT series, where I will be covering all six subjects on the OAT in separate articles. Today I will be covering the Reading Comprehension section of the exam. As always, check back for more articles in the future! Please keep in mind that you can comment at the bottom of the
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