Tag: challenges
Changes & Challenges: The Evolving Optometric Workforce
Just released! Changes & Challenges: The Evolving Optometric Workforce looks at the evolution of the optometric workforce and the trends that will shape it...
The Tipping Point
This article is an excerpt from the Changes & Challenges report.
In his book The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway wrote that a change happened...
Future-ready?
This article is an excerpt from the Changes & Challenges report.
The narrative that optometry is an oversaturated profession is a persistent one. Many optometrists...
Expanding Access, Redefining Careers
This article is an excerpt from the Changes & Challenges report.
Teleoptometry is redefining how optometrists practice, creating new career pathways and extending access to...
The Full-Time Equivalent
This article is an excerpt from the Changes & Challenges report.
“While past generations of optometrists and ophthalmologists routinely worked 60 to 70 hours per...
Navigating Your Identity
This article is an excerpt from the Changes & Challenges report.
Seeing the Previously Unseen
Noelle Tchang, OD, walks over to her standing desk in her...
The Residency Calculation
This article is an excerpt from the Changes & Challenges report.
Many students face a difficult decision during their final year of optometry school. Do...
Optometry’s Money Matters
This article is an excerpt from the Changes & Challenges report.
About one-in-three respondents to a 2024 Women In Optometry Pop-up Poll said that they...
A Test of Patience: Tracy Eyecare Center
Long before Sarah Tracy, OD, graduated from Indiana University School of Optometry, she knew she wanted to be an optometrist. She recalls faking the...
The Common Denominator In Optometrist’s Career: Improving Access
At every step of her career, optometrist Carolina Kunnen, PhD, BOptom, BHealth, FBCLA, has been focused on increasing access and improving eye care to...
