Pupillary Pathways

Whether you are just beginning your first year of optometry school  spending most of your timef shadowing in clinic or you are in your fourth year at your external clinical rotation sites, we’ve come up with several tips to help you excel in clinic and impress your staff doctors!

Topics: Clinics

 

Remember back to 2016 when optometrists and optometry students started receiving notifications that they had applied for Chase Amazon Visa credit cards, along with other random credit inquiries? The information that was breached seemed to all funnel back to the National Board of Examiners in Optometry (NBEO^®).

Topics: NBEO Security Breach

 

On March 29, 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new topical ophthalmic medication known as Avaclyr ^® for the treatment of herpes simplex dendritic keratitis.

Topics: Drug Updates

 

The goal of NBEO ^® testing is to assess the cognitive, psychomotor, affective, and communication skills that are essential for entry-level optometric practice. As the profession of optometry is constantly evolving, the NBEO ^® has to adapt to these changes to ensure that new optometrists are competent in all areas of practice no matter where they choose to live and work. With that being said, there are several new updates from the NBEO ^® that will be taking effect this year. 

Topics: NBEO

 

One of the most anticipated days of your optometric career happened this week… the release of the Optometry Residency Match results.

Topics: Optometry Residency Interviews, Residency, Optometry Residency, ORMatch

Topics: Links

Are you interested in keeping updated on new technology entering the market, or learning about interesting clinical cases, or getting a head start on what it is like to be a new graduate of optometry?

Or would you like to just stay informed on what is happening across the country with other fellow optometry students? Well here are a few of our favorite websites to keep an eye on for all things optometry!

Topics: Resources

Whoa! Does anyone else feel like January lasted forever and February just flew by?! There is definitely a meme for that somewhere 😉 At any rate, it’s officially March already and that means we officially have a new class of OptoPrep Student Representatives for the upcoming year!

Topics: PSA

With the NBEO^® Part 1 exam quickly approaching, we thought we'd let you in on a little cheat sheet of ophthalmic mnemonics that will help you easily remember important information for the upcoming test!

Topics: Ophthalmic Mnemonics

 

 

Happy New Year! I hope you all have had a great start to 2019 and are ready for another productive year! 

 

As you have probably heard me mention before, one of our biggest goals here at OptoPrep is to continuously grow and improve board preparation. We want every year to be a year of learning, progression, and overall making OptoPrep better and better for all of you. 

Topics: Studying