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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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Students are up for the World Sight Day Student Challenge!

Involvement, News / By / 2 minutes of reading

Press Release Denver, CO (September 25, 2012) – The World Sight Day Student Challenge is in full swing at Colleges of Optometry across North America. American Optometric Student Association (AOSA) Trustees and student representatives from the Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity (sVOSH) are taking the lead and planning events such as talent shows, bake sales …

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5 Factors in Maintaining the Growth and Stability of Optometry

Healthcare, Involvement, News / By / 2 minutes of reading

I was reading a few interesting articles earlier this month that I wanted to share with you. The first was a message from. Ron Hopping, O.D., MPH, AOA president, after a trip he took to Washington, D.C.  I was particularly struck by what he listed as the important, core things that optometrists and their patients …

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Positive Stories in Optometry News

Healthcare, Involvement, News, Organized Optometry / By / 2 minutes of reading

Hello everyone!  Hopefully all first year students, like me, are now getting used to their weekly exams and study schedules. I decided to bring you some positive news in optometry, resulting from the hard work of all those involved with pushing our profession forward and serving patients or anyone who may need eye care. I’ll …

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Pediatric Eye Exam Advocacy: Benefiting children and optometry

Articles, Involvement, Organized Optometry / By / 2 minutes of reading

With August being Children’s Vision and Learning Month and the passing of the torch from former AOA President Dr. Dori Carlson to Dr. Ron Hopping, I wanted to take the opportunity to look back at some important developments over this past year having to do with our profession and the children and adolescents we will …

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The Importance of Building Connections Prior to Optometry School

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

It is undoubtedly important to succeed academically in undergraduate studies and in optometry school, but it’s also extremely important to begin networking as soon as possible.  My connections initiated from shadowing optometrists.  During one summer, I shadowed four optometrists in four different practices: three private practices and one MD/OD clinic.  In fact, one of the …

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Message to Pre-Optometry Students and Incoming First Year Optometry Students

Articles, Involvement, Optometry School, OptometryStudents.com, Pre-Optometry School / By / 2 minutes of reading

I’m an incoming first year student in the class of 2016 at the Illinois College of Optometry.  This last weekend I had an amazing time at Optometry’s Meeting 2012 in Chicago!  I worked at the OptometryStudents.com booth in the exhibition hall on Saturday and had an incredible experience meeting and networking with enthusiastic optometry students, …

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And The Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film Goes To…

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Two first-year students from the New England College of Optometry collaborated on a video project and took first place in the 2012 Envision Video Competition sponsored by the Assocation of Schools and Colleges of Optometry. Their creativity and dedication are evidence of the quality of candidates that the field of optometry attracts. Congratulations to Joey Kane and Dan …

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Student Volunteers in Optometric Services to Humanity

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“It is important as an optometry student and future optometrist to realize that there are many areas around the nation and populations around the world that cannot afford or obtain optometric services.” – Linh Phan, RSO Class of 2014 Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity (VOSH/International) is a non-profit organization with 32 state/regional chapters and 32 school …

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Community Outreach and Education: Easier than you think!

Articles, Involvement / By / 3 minutes of reading

By: Elsa Sheerer; SUNY 2015 We have all given our fair share of presentations throughout our weathered educational trail to get to where we are today. And a few of us will be doing presentations on scholarly research while we are in optometry school.  And obviously, we are so used to doing case presentations that we rattle …

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