Optometry students’ perspective on optometry in suburban Western India: A qualitative study [PDF]
Journal of Optometry, 2021 Optometry has been an established profession in India for 60 years. Despite this, students who choose this course may have misconceptions and unrealistic expectations about the profession. The goal of this study is to understand the perceptions about optometry among optometry students, prior to and during their studies.A snap-shot narrative qualitative
Barsha Lal, Dinesh Venugopal
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Career aspirations and factors influencing career choices of optometry students in Ghana. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 Optometry students in clinical years are usually faced with the challenges of making a career choice in or outside optometry. This cross sectional study was conducted to investigate the career aspirations of optometry students in Ghana.
Emmanuel Kobia-Acquah +4 more
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Ugandan optometry students’ experiences of their clinical training: a qualitative study [PDF]
BMC Research NotesBackground There is a gradual increase in the number of optometry education programs in Africa yet there is limited knowledge on optometry students’ experiences of their clinical training. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore the optometry
Boaz Mucunguzi +6 more
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Knowledge, Attitudes, and Perceptions Towards Hand Hygiene of Optometry Students Pre- and Peri-COVID-19 at a Tertiary Institution in Johannesburg, South Africa [PDF]
Clinical Optometry, 2022 Susarah Maria Richter,1 Tobias George Barnard2 1Department of Optometry, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa; 2Water and Health Research Centre, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South AfricaCorrespondence: Susarah Maria ...
Richter SM, Barnard TG
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Scholars180: An effective oral presentation assessment for optometry students. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Oral presentation assessments are multifunctional tools that can potentially test all six cognitive domains of Bloom’s taxonomy. Yet, they are not used as frequently as other forms of assessment in curriculums due to time limitations. Hence, designing effective oral presentation assessments that can overcome this is required.
Alam K, Zheng X, Vance K, Lee K.
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Factors influencing the decision of GHANAIAN optometry students to practice in rural areas after graduation [PDF]
BMC Medical Education, 2018 Background Human resources for eye health are inequitably distributed in most developing countries including Ghana. In spite of this, most eye care workers are concentrated in urban areas to the disadvantage of rural dwellers who need the services of ...
Samuel Bert Boadi-Kusi +3 more
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An investigation into the wellbeing of optometry students
, 2022 Abstract Introduction Wellbeing is synonymous with positive mental health and impacts the efficacy of student learning. The wellbeing of optometry students is an understudied topic. The wellbeing of optometry students studying in a blended undergraduate course during the COVID-19 pandemic was also ...
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Should Optics be taught to Optometry students? [PDF]
SPIE Proceedings, 2009 Though developed out of physics and optics, the optometric profile in the UK has shifted towards a healthcare professional. As a result, optometry students are now stretched between numerous courses as diverse as microbiology, legal aspects related to practice, mathematics, vision or pharmacology.
Vincent Nourrit
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Exploring the Impact of Small Group Teaching and Case-Based Learning on Optometry Students’ Binocular Vision Clinical Knowledge [PDF]
British and Irish Orthoptic JournalIntroduction: Small group teaching is widely used in healthcare education. Few studies have specifically focused on small group teaching in optometry. This study investigated the effects of small group clinical teaching combined with case-based learning (
Sirawit Ketchan +2 more
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Involving patients in the development of interpersonal skills of optometry students [PDF]
Australasian journal of optometry, The, 2020 Providing patients an opportunity to give feedback to optometry students on their communication and interpersonal skills allows for a unique learning opportunity. The aim of the current project was to determine if the Doctors' Interpersonal Skills Questionnaire (DISQ) was suitable for use with optometry students in a large teaching clinic and if it ...
Shelley Hopkins, Katrina Schmid
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