The Ohio State University College of Optometry, Columbus, Ohio University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania College of Optometry at Salus University, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania Northeastern State University, Oklahoma College of Optometry, Tahlequah, Oklahoma University of California Berkeley School of Optometr...

Catter Matil, 2253 TAMU College Station, TX 77843-2253 Ph: (979)845-2142 • Fax: (979) 862-6842 [email protected] • nfs.tamu.edu Optometrists are concerned with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of abnormalities associated with the visual system. Doctors of Optometry (O.D.) evaluate the refractive status of the eye, as well as the selection, design, provision, and adaptation of corrective mea...

Charles F. Prentice published a book entitled, Legalized Optometry and the Memoirs of its Founder in 1926. Only 200 copies were published. This 416-page was divided into two parts. The first part describes events that transpired leading to attempt pass optometry practice act state New York. latter Prentice’s life. While every optometrist has heard Prentice, many are not familiar with his contri...

Rapid advances in ocular diagnostic approaches and emerging links of pathological changes in the eye with systemic disorders have widened the scope of optometry as the front line of eye health care. Expanding professional requirements stipulate that optometry students get a meticulous training in relevant information and communication technologies (ICT) and various bioinformatics and health inf...

OBJECTIVE To determine perceptions of acceptable conducts amongst under and postgraduate optometry students and to compare them with students from other disciplines. METHODS Students (under/postgraduate) of optometry (n=156) and other courses (n=54) from University of Minho participated in a voluntary online questionnaire about perception of conducts, classifying as acceptable or unacceptable...

By March 2014 we received the confirmation that the application of Journal of Optometry to be indexed in PubMed database had been successful. This is noteworthy considering that PubMed receives over 400 requests every 3 months and of course the rejection rate is extremely high. Now, from the 24th of March, the articles published in Journal of Optometry from 2014 (inclusive) will be indexed in P...

Findings from an urban community optometry clinic in a poor area of Johannesburg, South Africa (SA), highlighted a high level of undiagnosed need, raising questions concerning access to and availability of eye-care services in SA. It is imperative that we understand vision as a requisite for poverty alleviation, and the need for a public health approach to service delivery.

w i t M i 1 An efficient transmission of knowledge to students must be the main goal of any university teacher. The practical activities are the most preferred by students as they learn something closer to what they are going to practice in the future after finishing their studies, and additionally they experience in their hands the topics learnt. In the field of optometry, clinical subjects wi...

Centre for Contact Lens Research, School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc., Jacksonville, Florida University of Minho, CEORLab, Center of Physics (Optometry), Gualtar, Braga, Portugal C. R. Bard, Inc., Bard Medical Division, Covington, Georgia The University of Manchester, Faculty of Life Sciences, Manchester, ...