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What You Need to Know Before Going on an Optometry Mission Trip

Quick Tips for Mission Trips Many students go on mission trips over the summer break. These trips are organized by many groups, including RAM, FCO, and SVOSH. Students travel around the country and around the world to pop-up clinics. The students and doctors treat patients who could not afford or obtain optometric care otherwise. Whether …

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SVOSH trip to Mexico – University of Houston College of Optometry

In March, I went on a Student Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity (SVOSH) trip with eight other University of Houston College of Optometry (UHCO) students to the VOSH Guerrero clinic, which has been helping the indigenous population in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico for over three decades. We joined a group composed of two students from …

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Pursuing Leadership Positions in Optometric Organizations – SVOSH

This article is part two in a continuing series looking closely behind the scenes of optometry student organizations through the eyes of passionate and dedicated student leaders.  Kristen Kramlich, a second year student at University of Missouri-St. Louis and incoming President of Student Volunteer Services to Humanity (known as SVOSH or VOSH) shares some of …

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13 Things You Need to Know Before Going on a VOSH Trip

This past January, I had the wonderful opportunity to conduct eye exams at the annual eye care clinic with VOSH-Connecticut in Nicaragua. Twenty-one optometry students from Berkeley Optometry joined a team of eight optometrists and 24 additional volunteers to serve the beach town of San Juan Del Sur and its neighboring communities. Over four days …

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Optometry Student SVOSH Trip to Belize

After touching down in Belize on Sunday, we were greeted by two local Lions Club members who escorted us to our clinic. They accompanied us through customs while we were screened with our suspicious, black leather trial lens kits, BIO kits, and diagnostic kits. Oh, and let’s not forget the many questionable crates of glasses. …

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Finding Barahonas Hero: A Reflection of Service from IAUPR’s VOSH President

  When I was asked to write an article on my experience in the Dominican Republic for IAUPR School of Optometry’s VOSH mission trip, I immediately knew that I wanted to find a hero with a story that could inspire everyone. I was on a mission to write this article and I was determined to …

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Student Volunteers in Optometric Services to Humanity

“It is important as an optometry student and future optometrist to realize that there are many areas around the nation and populations around the world that cannot afford or obtain optometric services.” – Linh Phan, RSO Class of 2014 Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity (VOSH/International) is a non-profit organization with 32 state/regional chapters and 32 school …

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