"I truly enjoyed working at this site. Two days a week we worked with the ophthalmologist managing more diseased based cases with a focus on glaucoma, AMD, and cataracts. We would see post-ops and follow-ups. Every other week, a retina specialist would come in where we would see more retinal issues and anti-vegf injections for wet AMD.

With the optometrist, we saw a lot regular annual eye exams, a few binocular vision cases, and anterior segment diseases (including urgent red eye cases). For the contact lens experience, this site mainly deals with soft contact lens (spherical, toric, multifocal, and monovision), with some RGP and some scleral fits. More practical contact lens fits and patients were seen versus specialty fits. He scheduled 1 hour lectures of the following topics to further expand our knowledge outside of clinic hours: soft CL, RGP, biotic contacts, topography readings, post surgical (LASIK) complications, differential diagnosis of infiltrates.

With each patient with both doctors, we would work up each patient (case history through slit lamp), as well as running any diagnostic testing the patient needed (fundus photos, OCT, VF). I did not feel like a tech running these tests because I think it's important to learn how to use these machines as we don't get much practice with them in school and it allows you to be with your patient and develop that patient interaction throughout the entire exam.

I also enjoyed working with the staff, the main technician Janet is always ready and willing to help. I also worked with two other students from the SoCal optometry schools, which was really nice to work alongside colleagues from other programs. The office is very busy and each student sees an average of 10-12 patients everyday. Overall, I loved this site and was so happy and excited to be there everyday."