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State of the Art Teaching Suite Open

State of the Art Teaching Suite Open

Refurbishment of Teaching Lab to support optometric education The School of Optometry and Vision Science recently upgraded the highly specialised Audio-Visual (AV) system in the school’s pre-clinical teaching suite, which is used extensively in the teaching of...
Head of School message – April

Head of School message – April

Dear Colleagues Welcome to the April issue of our newsletter for 2019. I do not feel able to write this welcome without acknowledging the tragic events in Christchurch on March 15. As a relatively recent arrival here one thing is clear: as well as the terrible impact...
BOptom Part II Orientation

BOptom Part II Orientation

On Friday 1 March we were very pleased to welcome 61 students into the BOptom programme. Orientation Day commenced with activities led by the NZ Optometry Students Society (NZOSS) and continued with a lunch arranged by the NZOSS and sponsored by the School of...
Low Vision Day 2019

Low Vision Day 2019

The School of Optometry and Vision Science held the annual Low Vision Day for Part V Optometry students in March. This day is designed to increase knowledge of the difficulties patients with vision impairments have, utilising a range of activities. Volunteers formed...
SOVS conference Sunday 16 June 2019

SOVS conference Sunday 16 June 2019

Registrations for this year’s conference are now open at www.sovsconference.org.nz. The draft programme is available on the website. A glaucoma peer review session has just been added to the programme and further workshops are being developed; the draft will be...

Dear Colleagues Welcome to the April issue of our newsletter for 2019. I do not feel able to write this welcome without acknowledging the tragic events in Christchurch on March 15. As a relatively recent arrival here one thing is clear: as well as the terrible impact...