Here is an article about transitioning from student to practitioner and to offer my advice for optometry students. – Dr. Kestenbaum First, let me tell you a little bit about myself. After falling inlove with Boston on a brisk March day in 1976, the day of my interview at the New England College Of Optometry …
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This is a continuation of Dr. Won’s FIRST article –Insights From Dr. Won So what exactly do I do? I’m an O.D. that works for another O.D. that leases her office within a large optical chain (Lenscrafters in our case). It is a long-established office that has been at the location for 27 years. Neither …
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Today we have an AMAZING article from OptometryStudents.com team member, Antonio Chirumbolo. I really have to give Antonio a round of applause for this article, a real 10/10 article packed with details that are useful for any first year optometry student attending ANY optometry school. He really stole the show with this article and it …
Before I entered optometry school I knew there would be some really cool things I would learn and experience throughout my 4 years, knowledge that would be unobtainable elsewhere. Now that I am in school there is not a day that goes by that I don’t learn something that fascinates me. Yet I can only …
The summers of 2007 and 2008 come with blazing temperatures, yet I find myself sheltered in the air conditioned walls of Optix Family Eyecare Center, a private practice on Long Island operated by O.DÂ Joel Kestenbaum who graduated from the New England College of Optometry. I sit in the dimly lit pre-test room behind the …
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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 …
Optometry school is NOT easy, if you like a challenge then Optometry School is FOR YOU! It is not just classes and tests that you must focus your energy upon, but you must be hypersensitive to you financial situation, your commute to and from school, staying active with clubs/committees, networking yourself, and of course keeping …
