It’s time to start thinking about the 2016-2017 Walmart and Sam’s Club Health and Wellness optometry scholarship competition, Project Foresight. Project Foresight is a national student competition that highlights the vision of Walmart and Sam’s Club Health and Wellness to provide quality, affordable, accessible health care for everyone. This year’s contestants will present on how […]
Because it believes that everyone deserves to see their best to live their best, National Vision supports mission trips through chapters of Student Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity (SVOSH) at the schools and colleges of optometry. National Vision provides $1,000 per school each year to help with the costs of going on mission trips. In […]
Topcon Medical Systems has introduced a new series of adjustable instrument tables designed to maximize patient comfort and office space. The new AIT-W1 and AIT-W2 Adjustable Instrument Tables can be placed flush against a wall and accessed from the front and both sides, providing wheelchair accessibility, saving space, and facilitating the use of ophthalmic instruments. […]
The ASCO Board of Directors held its winter meeting on Nov. 8, 2016, in Anaheim, Calif. ASCO President Dr. Karla Zadnik opened the daylong meeting, which included discussions about future Board of Directors meeting topics and the recent meeting of the Inter-Organizational Communications and Cooperation Committee; requests for nominations of individuals to serve on the […]
The ASCO Clinical Affairs Committee (CAC) is pleased to announce that its Online Clinical Educators Forum (OCEF) has received generous support for 2017 and 2018. The ASCO Clinic Directors/Administrators (CD/A) SIG confirmed that it will provide funding in the amount of $20,000. The CAC conducted the first OCEF in April 2015. The event reached more […]
ASCO’s Diversity and Cultural Competency Committee (DCCC) recently posted a new online resource, Case Studies in Cultural Competency. This downloadable compendium of case studies is available at no charge to faculty, students and other interested individuals at ASCO member schools and colleges. It contains the winning and best case studies from two years’ worth of […]
The past several months have seen tremendous progress in the development of ASCO’s new Strategic Plan. This progress was reported by ASCO’s Executive Director, Dawn Mancuso, during the Board meeting on Nov. 8, 2016. The Strategic Planning Committee, led by ASCO President Dr. Karla Zadnik (OSU) and including Dr. Jenny Coyle (PUCO), Dr. David Damari […]
Are you up-to-date with the ASCO Podcast Series? Check out the two most recently produced installments: Hayley Barber, Miss Alabama 2016 and Miss America 2017 contestant, talks about why she plans to apply to optometry school and Sight for Small Eyes, the organization she created to raise awareness about the importance of comprehensive eye examinations […]
ASCO was among 19 organizations that collaborated to create an inaugural Health Professions Week (HPW) Sept. 26-30, 2016. The free week-long event provided more than 4,000 high school students, college students, counselors and advisors with interactive opportunities to explore health-related education programs and careers. HPW included an online treasure hunt, on-campus events and two virtual […]
ASCO sponsored its seventh Optometry Virtual Fair on Nov. 2, 2016. All 23 schools and colleges of optometry participated, 643 prospective students registered and 367 of them chatted live online with school and college representatives. Virtual fairs are part of the ASCO-American Optometric Association Project on Further Developing a Robust, Diverse, and Highly Qualified National […]
