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July 2013 Students in Focus: Blake Dornstauder and David Zimmerman

News, Optometry School, OptometryStudents.com / By / 9 minutes of reading

With control of the lead approaching the final question at the 22nd Annual Varilux Optometry Student Bowl at Optometry’s Meeting last month in San Diego, Nova Southeastern fourth-year Blake Dornstauder answered the question confidently and correctly. The problem was he wagered only four points, landing him in a tie with University of Alabama at Birmingham’s …

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Anonymous Confessions of an HMO Optometrist

Healthcare, News, Post-Optometry School / By / 5 minutes of reading

As an optometry student, you have the freedom to practice optometry in any imaginable setting you’d like. Have you ever wondered what practicing optometry in an HMO (Health Maintenance Organization) setting would be like? HMOs are organizations that provide full health care benefit plans and offer all medical services within their own hospitals. Is optometry in …

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June 2013 Optometry Student in Focus, Tina Grosshans

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Entering her fourth year at Southern College of Optometry, Christina “Tina” Grosshans will undoubtedly excel in her final year of optometry school. She served SCO as president of SVOSH for the 2012-2013 academic year, which is how I came to know her, as we both just returned from our SVOSH trip to Belize last month. …

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The Unconventional Optometrist: Creating Special Effects in Hollywood

Articles, Post-Optometry School / By / 7 minutes of reading

If you’ve seen a movie in the last fifty years or so, chances are you witnessed the work of an optometrist and you didn’t even know it. Dr. Morton Greenspoon of Professional VisionCare Associates in Sherman Oaks, California, is a contact lens specialist and a consultant to the major film studios [1]. He is a …

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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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The Unconventional Optometrist: Taking Optometry to a New Frontier

Articles, Post-Optometry School / By / 7 minutes of reading

Who said optometrists were boring people?  Dr. Garret Wada has certainly proven that notion wrong.  He was known as a bit of a “Trekkie” since before his days as a student at the Illinois College of Optometry back in the early 90’s, and has since turned his love for the iconic television series into a …

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5 Ways to Improve Your LinkedIn Profile as an Optometry Student

Articles, Finance & Business, Optometry School / By / 3 minutes of reading

Networking in optometry school is crucial to finding success in the real world after graduation. During school, you meet many amazing people in the small world of optometry. How do you keep in touch with them? How can they stay updated on your progress through school? LinkedIn is the top social networking destination focused on …

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I’ve Had a Constant Blur in My Right Eye for 6 Years

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The premier resource for optometry students to post their most interesting optometric clinical cases online for all to see. A winner will be chosen monthly and will receive a clinical gift bundle, an official certificate signed by the founder of OptometryStudents.com and their clinical case will be promoted for the optometry community to see and …

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Experience How Vision Therapy Changes Lives: Meet Jillian and Robin Benoit

Articles, Optometry School / By / 3 minutes of reading

Cover one of your eyes with your hand for about 5 minutes. At first, you may not even last the entire 5 minutes and give up covering that eye out of frustration and indifference, which is understandable! Now imagine at the age of 6 having no choice but to patch one of your eyes for …

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How to Effectively Communicate Diagnoses to Patients: In Layman’s Terms

Articles, Clinical Optometry / By / 7 minutes of reading

“Unless you’ve got an optical engineer in your exam chair, reciting names of Zernike polynomials as possible explanations for a patient’s night-time blur is gonna get you nowhere.” After several years of practice and several thousand patients, you’ll definitely get the hang of how to explain things in an efficient manner so that your patients …

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