I suck at optics

[Iladelphia]

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I'm better at memorization etc....yeah yeah yeah i'm sure you've heard all the excuses. But it doesn't disguise the fact that I suck at optics.

Seriously. Can anyone recommend a decent, "dumbed-down" book that can teach this stuff to me? Much appreciated!

 

[monkey7247]

I used Last Minute Optics before all 3 of my OKAPs and performed well (on the optics section, at least).

 

[orbitsurgMD]

I'm better at memorization etc....yeah yeah yeah i'm sure you've heard all the excuses. But it doesn't disguise the fact that I suck at optics.

Seriously. Can anyone recommend a decent, "dumbed-down" book that can teach this stuff to me? Much appreciated!

Optics for Clinicians and The Fine Art of Prescribing Eyeglasses Without Making a Spectacle of Yourself, both by Rubin. Last Minute Optics, as mentioned above.

Optics is a perennial favorite for OKAPs and is on the Boards as well. You just have to learn the things that always get asked: understanding the cornea as a convex mirror, understanding how a manual lensometer works, understanding how Galilean and astronomical telescopes work, understanding the streak retinoscope and the effect of working distance, the Gullstrand optical model of the eye (won the Nobel Prize, only ophthalmologist to do so, although Sir Harold Ridley deserved one and didn't get it), what kinds of images are produced by the indirect ophthalmoscope and why, how the Koeppe and mirror goniolenses work, effect of vertex distance on spectacle versus contact lens power, nomenclature conversions: positive and negative cylinder, power crosses, etc.

 

[Iladelphia]

Thanks everyone! I found an old thread - oops - and it seems like Last Minute Optics is a popular choice for residents. I think I will give that a shot. OrbitSurg ~ thanks for the study guide. Will make sure I know all those topics before test-time.

 

[cme2c]

The open optics series available on itunes or openophthalmology.com is great IMO.

 

[JMK2005]

Another vote here for Last Minute Optics. Great little book.

 

[echinoderm]

any good crash course books for peds??