Clinical Optometry

By: Dan Strybos - SALUS Optometry School 2012 As optometric students, we face the unique challenge of taking information presented in a classroom setting and recognizing it in a clinical setting. Students often struggle to translate...

As we have a firm step into a new era of optometry, it is important as a student to remember the importance in becoming the best possible refractionist that you can possibly become.   As I just finished my optometry schooling, I found...

Distance PD is the distance between the pupils when viewing a distant target. Near PD is the distance between the pupils when viewing a near target. Near Centration Distance (CD) is the distance between the visual axes in a spectacle plane...

Lensometry What is lensometry? A lensometer measures vergence and prism power amongst other aspects of a lens. If a patient presents a pair of spectacles to you and does not know the Rx of the lenses, a lensometer will enable you to...

  Update 06-13-17: Check out our refreshed Ret article on how to "Step Up Your Retinoscopy Skills"    This is a 'How-To' article for retinoscopy and it is especially useful for first-year optometry students. For...