Month: November 2020

Meeting Minutes 11/17/2020

In this meeting, we heard from Midwestern College of Optometry. Below you can find our meeting minutes and notes!

70:30 female:male

GPA: 3.34

Science GPA: 3.16

  • Midwestern: 1900 as American College of osteopathic medicine and surgery
  • Able to expand to AZ
  • All health professional degree programs
  • One Health holistic program
  • Wellness center, dorms, and apt complex (eligible at any year)
  • 24/7 security and free parking
  • New building as of 2017
  • Clinical Optometry Lab with overhead screens for teaching and observation
    • Private rooms for exams or proficiency
    • Similar to NC board exam room
  • Small class size (60)
  • Accessible faculty
  • Split into quarters
  • Year 1= basic science and core opt
  • Year 2= core opt
  • Year 3= opt and clinical
  • Year 4= clinical, 4 externships
  • First and third years are three quarters, third and fourth years are quarters
  • Capstone project
  • Business courses
  • Elective courses in third year such as sports vision and neuro-ophthalmology
  • Learn how to do lasers
  • VR Simulation Lab
  • OD/MPH Dual Degree Program
  • Specialties:
    • PCP
    • Ocular disease
    • Cl
    • Prosthetics
    • Peds/binocular vision
    • Low vision
    • Electro-diagnostics
    • Sportsvision
    • Tbi
  • Racially diverse patient population
  • See a lot of ocular disease
  • Professors speak many different languages such as Spanish, Chinese, polish, Greek, French, and more
  • Many university organizations, university-related and optometry-related
  • Everything through OptomCAS
    • No supplemental app
  • Closed file interview
  • Why optometry? Why our school?
  • Admissions Committee meets within 48 hours after interview to discuss
  • Should receive a notification in the same week
  • Requirements
    • GPA over 2.75 (cumulative and science)
    • Completion of bachelor’s degree
    • Competitive OAT (300+)
    • Two letters of rec
      • 1 opt ( no minimum hours of shadowing)
      • With COVID, interviewing an optometrist is okay
    • Prerequisite Courses
      • Biology with lab 8 semester hours
      • Anatomy 3 semester hours
      • Physiology 3 semester hours
      • General/Inorganic chem with lab 8 semester hours
      • Organic chem with lab with 4 semester hours
      • Biochemistry with 3 semester hours
      • Physics with 6 semester hours
      • Calculus with 3 semester hours
      • Microbiology with 3 semester hours
      • Stats with 3 semester hours
      • Psych with 3 semester hours
      • English with 6 semester hours
    • Accept different entrance tests as long as have good academic transcripts (GRE)
    • SEE at CCO to expose students to the Doctor or Optometry degree
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