Chelsea Devitt, Marisa Ciamacca, myself, and Chelsea Monroe as we enjoy our first day in Pre-Clinic with wearing our brand new White Coats.

Fall Semester of our Second year of Optometry School is filled with lots of milestones and firsts for us on the path to becoming Optometrists. Today was the first day that many of us actually got to wear those bright white coat that we all worked so hard to earn last year. This semester we will spend 4 hours officially in lab and many unofficial hours per week in the Pre-Clinic of the Optometry School. Ohio State has recently remodeled and opened the brand new Pre-Clinic last December. This means that my class is the first class to fully experience the new Pre-Clinic area.

The brand new Pre-Clinic is on the second floor of Fry Hall and is where we as second year students will spend most of our time this fall learning how to perform a full eye exam. The Pre-Clinic area is home to 16 full exam lanes, 2 NBEO (National Board of Examining Optometrists) Exam Lanes, one classroom, injection lab, and student study spaces. For lab each week we are required to dress in clinic attire, wear our white coats, and bring the equipment that we purchased way back in March. It is during the lab sessions that we will learn the techniques that are required of us and by the end of the Semester we will be able to perform a full eye exam. Today, my lab partner Marisa and I worked on learning how to use the EHR (Electronic Health Record) System and started practicing simple techniques. Overall it was an exciting day and we are all very eager to keep learning and practicing our new techniques.