Part III of V By Dr. Paul Heeg Okay, you’re a third or fourth year optometry student and you see a ton of choices in front of you… you may ask: where to go from here? My advice would be not to get intimidated from all the choices, there certainly are quite a few! Research …
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I said it before and I will say it again… …the profession of optometry faces pressures from the federal government, state governments, other medical professions and from optometrists themselves and it is the American Optometric Association (AOA) that keeps our profession healthy, growing and moving in a positive direction. To sum it up, if you …
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I would like to introduce the newest team member to OptometryStudents.com! His name is Thai Nguyen, currently a 2nd year optometry student at Western University of Health Sciences College of Optometry (WUHSCO) in Pomona, California. Thai showed interest in OptometryStudents.com several months ago and we chatted through the comments you find at the end of …
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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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 that at times the art of writing a glasses or contact Rx could …
What’s up readers, fans and fellow students!? Today we have a guest article from Angelica Delgado, a SALUS 2014 Optometry Student who went above and beyond to learn more about optometry and to get herself involved in the profession. Her story is both inspiring and informative and it is students like her who will go …
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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 …
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 when viewing a near target. Near PD is actually impossible to measure unless you …
It is important that NYSOA members contact the legislators identified on the attached document to share their opposition to this proposal. This message is brought to you by the NYSOA and was forwarded to my SUNY Optometry E-mail and is NOT an original article by OptometryStudents.com If you are a pre-optometry student applying to optometry …
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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