Optometry has come of age!

MedicalColleges.net says that 'optometry is a health profession that has come of age and plays an ever-increasing and vital role in primary eye care.'

Read the entire article at www.medical-colleges.net/optometryusa.htm.


Did You Know Personal Perspectives:

"Ever since junior high, I have aspired to be a part of Ohio State's College of Optometry. Now that I am here, I realize I could not have made a better choice. The professors, administrators, and fellow students are welcoming, supportive and extremely gifted. What better combination could there be to produce only the best optometrists out there? I am confident that upon graduation my clinical skills and proficiency will be exceptional."

Katie Greiner, Class of 2009

Of the 17 schools and colleges of optometry in the United States,
six (or 35%) are headed by graduates of Ohio State's College of Optometry.



Did You Know Video Clip:

What's it like to be in optometry school? Take a look at this quick video that gives you the student and faculty perspective of optometry school.

Video Link: The Optometry School Experience


Did You Know about Eye Research:

Color categorization and the use of color names are astonishingly similar worldwide, from New Guinea to Central America to equatorial Africa. Throughout the world, researchers found that people everywhere divide the continuous range of chromatic colors into no more than eight distinct categories: red, green, yellow-orange, blue, purple, brown, pink and grue (green-or-blue) according to their research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (), the British Broadcasting Company (BBC), and Nature.

Research link: Color names - more universal than you might think
 Did You Know Quiz:

In normal circumstances, how much of what we learn is through our visual senses?
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    40%

    60%

    80%

Find out answer

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