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Managing professional identity within a changing market environment: New Zealand optometrists’ responses to the growth of corporate optometry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This research investigated the effects of changes in the market environment for optometry services and products on the professional identity of New Zealand optometrists. It explored three issues.
Gardner, D, Handy, J, Hunt, M, Warren, L
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The potential of offering HIV-related services in an optometry environment

open access: yesAfrican Vision and Eye Health, 2020
Background: Despite the successes of testing campaigns in South Africa, many people still do not know their human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) status, and the number of new infections remains high.
Haseena Majid, Burt Davis
doaj   +1 more source

Decentralised clinical training in optometry: Student perspectives

open access: yesAfrican Vision and Eye Health, 2022
Background: Decentralised clinical training (DCT) allows for training outside of central academic sites to within district-based ones with the expectation of enhanced exposure translating into improved competency of students.
Rekha Hansraj   +8 more
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A review of the essential visual skills required for soccer: Beyond 20–20 optometry

open access: yesFrontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2022
In ball sports such as soccer, the visual system is critical in guiding a player's search for crucial information that underpins skillful behavior, which requires the incorporation of all of the relevant information in the environment in order to make ...
Lourens Millard   +4 more
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The Limited Level of Digital Skills and Competencies of Optometry Students

open access: yesJ. Inf. Technol. Educ. Res., 2022
Aim/Purpose: Digital health is increasingly being utilized in clinical practice given its ease of accessibility, but it lacks emphasis from universities and accreditation bodies.
Kim Phuong Nguyen   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Myopia and defocus: the current understanding [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The current theories relating to the development and progression of myopia are related to exposure of the eye to hyperopic defocus. This paper discusses these theories and the large body of recent research investigating the evidence behind them.
Day, Mhairi, Duffy, Lorraine
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Developing culturally safe education practices in optometry schools across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand

open access: yesClinical and experimental optometry, 2022
Access to culturally safe health services is a basic human right, however through the lasting effects of colonisation, oppression, and systemic racism, the individual and community health of Indigenous peoples in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand have ...
Nicola S Anstice   +16 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

In-person and online escape rooms for individual and team-based learning in health professions library instruction

open access: yesJournal of the Medical Library Association, 2023
Background: A growing body of research demonstrates that adapting the popular entertainment activity “escape rooms” for educational purposes as an innovative teaching method can improve the learning experience.
Rachel R. Helbing   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Smartphone ophthalmoscopy: patient and student practitioner perceptions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
It can take several years to become proficient at direct ophthalmoscopy; the instrument’s single eyepiece allows only one individual to view the image at a time, which is considered disadvantageous during teaching.
Huntjens, B., Nagra, M.
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