Any Chicago-area optometrists willing to let me shadow?

[dinkus]

I'm not sure if this is the place to ask (kindly inform me if it isn't), but I've recently become interested in optometry and would love to get some experience.

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[Commando303]

I'm not sure if this is the place to ask (kindly inform me if it isn't), but I've recently become interested in optometry and would love to get some experience.

I don't believe there's anything wrong with asking here, but I do think you'd have far better luck finding persons to shadow by just walking into practices and asking.

 

[dinkus]

Duly noted. I'll try that, as well.

 

[Commando303]

Duly noted. I'll try that, as well.

Doing so, I recommend you shadow at a variety of practices. Some students find an office they like, and they stick with it seemingly indefinitely. My opinion is, if you favor a doctor, sure, keep his location in mind — maybe spend much of your time, there, even; but, permit yourself exposure to a range of different modes of practice, especially as, nowadays, odds are high you will go into a corporate setting, even if for only a portion of your career. (Let's not derail this thread with corporation-bashing or loan-griping or any such thing; that's not what I meant to entice.)

 

[dinkus]

Thanks for the advice.