My first shadowing experience.

[eyeluveyez]

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I was very apprehensive at first, so in order to prepare myself I google up some questions I may ask during the whole visit. Some are personal questions too like for example: you might want to ask:
"why optometry?"
" what was optometry school like for you?"
"what are the pros and cons of optometry school?"
"HOw was your undergraduate academic performance?"..etc.
The doctors I met was quite nice, they both happen to be married so it was like a wife and husband working together, thought it was interesting. Many patients I got to examine was patients with glaucoma, cataracts, others had infection, and many just came for a follow-up. So I just basically followed them, and got a chance to see how they interact with their patients, and I learned that in order to keep your clinic running is to have that welcome feeling to every patient that comes in. I was kind of intimidated because the Husband was extremely brilliantly smart, he was an honor student in his college of optometry, he was apart of the international honor society of optometry..he went to medical school, dental school and veterinary school..i was like..uh.. *swallow a lump in throat* lol.. but overall they were really nice. The whole time I was trying to see if I could ever see myself in their position, ..thats what shadowing is about 🙂

 

[thecgrblue]

I was very apprehensive at first, so in order to prepare myself I google up some questions I may ask during the whole visit. Some are personal questions too like for example: you might want to ask:
"why optometry?"
" what was optometry school like for you?"
"what are the pros and cons of optometry school?"
"HOw was your undergraduate academic performance?"..etc.
The doctors I met was quite nice, they both happen to be married so it was like a wife and husband working together, thought it was interesting. Many patients I got to examine was patients with glaucoma, cataracts, others had infection, and many just came for a follow-up. So I just basically followed them, and got a chance to see how they interact with their patients, and I learned that in order to keep your clinic running is to have that welcome feeling to every patient that comes in. I was kind of intimidated because the Husband was extremely brilliantly smart, he was an honor student in his college of optometry, he was apart of the international honor society of optometry..he went to medical school, dental school and veterinary school..i was like..uh.. *swallow a lump in throat* lol.. but overall they were really nice. The whole time I was trying to see if I could ever see myself in their position, ..thats what shadowing is about 🙂

Are you joking?! 😱 Tell him he is a failure b/c he didn't hit up Chiro or Podiatry as well.

The fact that he did all that school doesn't make him "extremely brilliantly smart"...I think he is incredibly stupid for doing so and should thus only be classified as "smart"

 

[Commando303]

I was very apprehensive at first, so in order to prepare myself I google up some questions I may ask during the whole visit. Some are personal questions too like for example: you might want to ask:
"why optometry?"
" what was optometry school like for you?"
"what are the pros and cons of optometry school?"
"HOw was your undergraduate academic performance?"..etc.
The doctors I met was quite nice, they both happen to be married so it was like a wife and husband working together, thought it was interesting. Many patients I got to examine was patients with glaucoma, cataracts, others had infection, and many just came for a follow-up. So I just basically followed them, and got a chance to see how they interact with their patients, and I learned that in order to keep your clinic running is to have that welcome feeling to every patient that comes in. I was kind of intimidated because the Husband was extremely brilliantly smart, he was an honor student in his college of optometry, he was apart of the international honor society of optometry..he went to medical school, dental school and veterinary school..i was like..uh.. *swallow a lump in throat* lol.. but overall they were really nice. The whole time I was trying to see if I could ever see myself in their position, ..thats what shadowing is about 🙂

The optometrist you shadowed passed through medical, dental, optometry, and veterinary schools...? And, he currently practices as an O.D.?

 

[Shnurek]

I'm thinking maybe he just represented optometry at these different schools. Or perhaps spent a year or so enrolled in each one before finding out optometry is for him.