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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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Field Vision – AOA Lecture on Sports Vision on the Football Field

Clinical Optometry, News / By / 2 minutes of reading

At this year’s AOA Meeting, I sat in on an interesting lecture by Fraser Horn, O.D., a Nike, Inc. consultant and professor at Pacific University College of Optometry. Sports vision is currently a hot topic in optometry and Dr. Horn encourages his colleagues to incorporate sports vision in their practices. He uses the sport of …

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5 Tips for an Effective Low Vision Exam

Articles, Clinical Optometry / By / 3 minutes of reading

As primary eye care providers, optometrists play a key role in preventing, identifying and treating vision loss in the general population. To effectively assist patients with visual impairment, optometrists not only need to be competent clinically, but must also display compassion and patience. Never tell a patient, “Nothing more can be done.” (1) Though it …

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Direct Ophthalmoscope: The Ultimate Pediatric Screening Tool

Articles, Clinical Optometry / By / 7 minutes of reading

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 …

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Malpractice Insurance: What Every Optometry Student Should Know

Articles, Clinical Optometry, Finance & Business, Healthcare, Organized Optometry / By / 4 minutes of reading

Malpractice Insurance: What every optometry student should know. An interview with Kevin Johnson, Vice President at Lockton Affinity Malpractice insurance is like the birds and bees talk. Parents generally avoid it, but if they don’t give their child “The Talk,” the child may make a mistake that could affect them for the rest of their …

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Quick Facts and Management of Charles Bonnet Syndrome

Articles, Clinical Optometry / By / 3 minutes of reading

Hallucination vs. Illusion: Hallucination is sensory perception of things that are not there and persist with eye closure. Illusion is misperception of viewed objects. What is Charles Bonnet Syndrome (CBS)? CBS is classified under hallucination and may occur in patients with visual acuity loss, visual field loss or reduced contrast sensitivity (1, 2). It may …

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Clinical Ocular Photography – Straight from your iPhone!

Articles, Clinical Optometry / By / 4 minutes of reading

Smartphone Photography The iPhone truly revolutionized the perspective of technology, especially when it comes to taking photos. I personally tend to leave my digital cameras behind most of these days, since my iPhone camera does just as good of a job taking high-quality photos anywhere and anytime with ease.  With immediate access to image editing …

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Binocular Vision Problems in Layman’s Terms

Articles, Clinical Optometry / By / 2 minutes of reading

Do you answer “no” to the questions on vision screening forms that ask if you ever experience double vision or words moving on the page when reading? If you are like me, you’ve never experienced these symptoms that are common among patients with a binocular dysfunction.  Not being able to experience this myself, I found …

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Optometry Student to Successful Optometrist: Communication Part 1 of 3

Articles, Clinical Optometry, Clinical Pearls, Finance & Business, Optometry School / By / 5 minutes of reading

In April I had the opportunity of interviewing Dr. Chad Fleming OD, FAAO for OptometryStudents.com. Dr. Fleming is the Business and Career Coach for AOA Excel, so he was a great interview when it comes to talking about what things students need to do in order to get a good job and excel at that …

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