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5 Things To Keep in Mind When Job Hunting

Whether you are finishing your last semester of optometry school or looking for a change in employment, there are things that you absolutely cannot overlook during your search: 1. Know your state requirements! It should come as no surprise that the requirements for practicing optometry vary greatly from state to state. Knowing what is expected […]

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Warm up with a free beanie from AOAExcel

Hey class of 2018 and 2017 residents! Are you on the prowl for a job? We’ve got you covered! AOAExcel is offering a free beanie for activating your free account on Optometry’s Career Center. Activating your account will allow you to find career opportunities nationwide. Once you activate your free account, you will receive an

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Food for Thought: Corporate Optometry

Thanksgiving is nearly upon us, and there are three topics you should avoid with your family: politics, religion, and corporate optometry. Let’s treat this article like the thanksgiving dinner table and avoid the first two. But just this once, we’ll break the rule on the third. Plenty of people have pretty strong opinions on corporate

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Fill In Jobs Give New ODs Cash, Experience, Insight

Fresh out of school, I was chomping at the bit to jump-start my exciting new career as an eye doctor and earn some cash – it’s payback time, baby! But with school loans coming due and no work experience, I was at the beginning of a long trek with no clue which way to go.

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The Unconventional Optometrist: Optometry in NASA Space Medicine

I am a big proponent of space exploration and I’ve always been interested in astronomy and everything you see in sci-fi movies.  If I could, I would be an astronaut myself, but the closest I ever got was getting a telescope at age 9 and joining my alma mater’s Space Society.  So, it was no

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