Survey for Optometrists

[Kayla Mei]

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1. What made you want to become an Optometrist?


2. Knowing what you know now, would you pursue a different career?


3. What do you love about your career?


4. What do you dislike about your career?


5. What is the most important thing for a student who is thinking about becoming an Optometrist to know?


6. What qualities do you think undergraduate students need to have to enter your field?


7. How important do you think a student’s GPA is?


8. What do you wish you knew as an undergraduate?



9. Are there other careers that you seriously considered?


10. If your child wanted to enter your career field, what would you say to them?

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1.Being an enthusiast for the fields of physics, physiology, and education, as well as understanding the role that clear, comfortable vision plays in the quality of life, I went to pursue a career in optometry.

2. I probably wouldn't pursue a different career. . . I'm pretty happy. This trade isn't that difficult.

3. See #1 and #2.

4. Commercial settings that dictate patient flow can potentially create very stressful patient loads. The fact that many of our tests are subjective, it is challenging when patients aren't cooperative and you have to rely on objective skills that can be hard sometimes to be accurate.

5. Learn the material and create knowledge; never memorize. Utilize the academic resources available (library books/references/tutors/office hours/etc) because diversification of study materials really reinforces knowledge, which = learning. School was super easy for me and I owe it to my school's library because certain books >>>>> some instructor's class notes, and books offer "perspective"/clinical commentary that may not be intuitive to the learning student.

6. Patience and desire to learn about physiology/psychophysics.

7. GPA is proportional to academic knowledge. academic knowledge is necessary for having an easy time during your student career, but honestly you can do just fine in clinic with optometric skills and clinical knowledge. Some colleagues do just fine as doctors but had a far more difficult time through school.

8. Be professional and mature as a professional student, because it really helps with networking and your reputation.

9. Biotechnology

10. Job isn't that hard. School can be hard if you memorize, so learn and don't memorize.