Access to education was identified as a key international priority by UNESCO as far back as 1998 when it called for “equality of access”. The profession of optometry has been challenged to educate practitioners in increasing numbers in order to meet the eye care needs. The World Health Organization reported that globally, an estimated 285 million people are visually impaired and in Sub Saharan ...

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Bartlett D. Moore IV and Ralph D. Freeman 5 6 7 Vision Science Group, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, and School of Optometry, 8 University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720-2020 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 Running head: Development of orientation tuning 34 35 36 Number of figures: 11 37 Number of pages: 35 38 39 40 Corresponde...

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Clinical judgment, clinical reasoning, clinical thinking, critical thinking and decision-making are often used concurrently or interchangeably in the literature, which can lead to confusion. This article is a succinct review, by no means an exhaustive one, of these various concepts related to clinical practice in the health professions in order to distinguish them from each other. Moreover, the...

Background and significance: Virtual resources have become a popular way to enhance lecture and laboratory instruction; however, there is no experimental data assessing their effectiveness in optometry. This study evaluated the effects of different interactive strategies on student motivation and learning outcomes. Methods: Sixty-five optometry students were assigned to control and intervention...