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Job satisfaction and its associated factors among optometrists in Ghana: a cross-sectional study
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2021 Background Job satisfaction describes an employee’s motivation and/or feeling of satisfaction towards his/her work. Globally, healthcare professionals’ turnover and retention play a critical role in the delivery of essential health services.
Kwadwo Owusu Akuffo +6 more
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Ophthalmic & physiological opticsSimulation techniques are used in healthcare education to support the development of clinical skills. The aim of this study was to investigate the perceived value of a tonometry model eye (TME) when used in teaching and learning the clinical skill of ...
Kate Doorduyn, R. Heitmar, L. Coetzee
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Revista de Gestão Social e AmbientalIntroduction: The world has undergone an educational transformation during the confinement of the year 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Higher education has taken an abrupt turn towards virtuality, the internationalization of research, the creation of ...
C. Mora +5 more
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Journal of the California Dental AssociationBackground Short-term medical missions (STMMs) have witnessed a surge in participation, particularly among healthcare professionals and trainees from high-income countries (HICs) traveling to lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to provide care to ...
Anna Chandsawangbhuwana, Steven H. Wang
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African Vision and Eye Health, 2009 Purpose: The optometry degree programme in South Africa currently includes a combination of both theoretical and clinical modules. The optometric skills required by graduates are often achieved by students’ involvement in clinical training at both in ...
R. Hansraj
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Addition of optional sign language in optometry schools for improved eye care for the deaf
African Vision and Eye Health, 2018 Background: Often, a deaf patient walks into an optometrist’s practice seeking help with his/her eyes. There is a high likelihood that poor communication between patient and healthcare professional will influence the final product dispensed.
Joas Ramaja
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Social Accountability: Introducing a new dimension in optometric education
, 2016 Optometry globally has undergone major developments yet poor eye health statistics remain. The World Health Organization (WHO) cites social accountability as key to addressing health challenges, urging the education sector to be more socially accountable
V. Moodley, J. Loughman, K. Naidoo
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HeliyonPurpose: This study aimed to explore the practices of optometrists in Hong Kong towards diagnosing and managing dry eye disease (DED). Methods: From September 2021 to March 2022, an online questionnaire was distributed to optometrists in Hong Kong ...
Ka Yin Chan +6 more
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High prevalence of refractive errors in an elderly population; a public health issue
BMC Ophthalmology, 2023 Purpose To determine the prevalence of myopia and hyperopia and their associated demographic and ocular factors in people 60 years of age and above. Methods The sampling was performed using a multi-stage stratified random cluster sampling method.
Alireza Hashemi +2 more
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Access to Optometric Education: Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa
, 2014 Access to education was identified as a key international priority by UNESCO as far back as 1998 when it called for “equality of access”. The profession of optometry has been challenged to educate practitioners in increasing numbers in order to meet the ...
J. Loughman +3 more
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