Optics
Mastering optics: Team-based learning is the key
Having spent only one week on optics in my undergraduate physics course, I was apprehensive to face the subject during my entire first year in optometry school. Shortly before our first lecture in our optics course, I received the syllabus. Actually, I studied the syllabus, as we had a quiz on it in our first …
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Clinical Application of Optical Principles
Hello everyone, today I will be discussing some of the common clinical applications of optical principles. Optics, the study of light, is the central physical science of our profession. It also happens to be one of my favorite subjects so far in optometry school. Unlike my OAT articles, I’m going to have to limit the …
How I Studied for Part 1 NBEO
By: Valentina Bangiyeva SUNY 2012 I think the most important thing to keep in mind for optics and optometry related subjects is that the  NBEO Part 1 has questions that are clinically practical. I started studying about 2 months in advance. I mainly focused on the KMK, I read it twice. I don’t think you …