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Student Mental Wellness and Optometric Education
During my 17 years in academic optometry, much has changed. I think about one change in particular ― students’ increasing struggles with mental wellness ― exponentially more today than I did a decade ago. Today’s students are more open with discussing mental...
Assigning Fair and Defensible Clinic Grades:
a Normative Statistical Approach
Background There are many ways to calculate a final grade in any course.1 However, when it comes to individual evaluations of student work, there are only three types of grading: atomistic, holistic or analytical.2 Atomistic grading strictly follows rubrics or grading...
Getting to Know ChatGPT – Notes from Our Initial Conversations
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is the term used for algorithms that can generate new content including text, audio, images and video.1 As you likely know, a recent breakthrough in generative AI is the chatbot ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained...
Stargardt Disease
Introduction Stargardt disease is a genetic condition affecting the retina and is one of the most commonly inherited retinal diseases.3 The condition affects the macula and leads to the damage and eventual loss of photoreceptors and underlying retinal pigment...
Feedback Changes Metacognitive Accuracy
Over Different Time Scales
Background The ability to assess one’s thought processes is known as metacognition.1 Metacognitive accuracy, the degree to which someone “knows what they know,” is often assessed through assigning probabilistic judgements to decisions.1,2 This practice can be...
Latest Edition of Clinical Procedures for Ocular Examination is Thoughtfully Updated
The book: Clinical Procedures for Ocular Examination (fifth edition), McGraw Hill, 2023, 390 pp. Authors: Jennifer Reilly, Hilary Gaiser and Benjamin Young Reviewer: Helene Kaiser, OD, Associate Professor, Pennsylvania College of Optometry at Salus University...
Using an Expert Simulated Patient Strategy to Teach
in the Low Vision Optometry Clinic
Introduction Clinical experience is important in healthcare teaching, including optometry, to ensure future practitioners have professional competencies.1-4 Face-to-face patient consultations enable optometry students to consolidate their theoretical knowledge and...
Meet the Journal’s New Editor
Keshia Elder, OD, MS, MS, FAAO, discusses milestones and making her way to optometry Keshia Elder, OD, MS, MS, FAAO, talked with Kimberly O’Sullivan, ASCO’s Director of Communications, about becoming editor of the Association’s peer-reviewed online journal, Optometric...
Theme Edition to Focus
on Global Optometric Education
We are pleased to announce a theme edition of the journal that will be dedicated to global optometric education. We welcome manuscript submissions that highlight research, curricula, pedagogy, public health initiatives and other projects that align with the theme...
Swan Syndrome Following Complicated RGP Lens Removal
Background Swan syndrome is a rare condition first discovered in the 1970s. It occurs in patients with history of cataract extraction via scleral incision. Patients present with hyphema, vitreous hemorrhage and potentially angle neovascularization. Swan syndrome is...
