STUDENT CENTERED EXPERIENCE - We enhance the student experience through programs that promote student and alumni success. Graduation to Optometric Stardom Career Symposium The College’s Career Development Center presented its seventh annual career symposium on April 8. The event’s 13 presenters included nine College alumni and represented the five modes of optometric practice, including private practice, corporate, hospitals, academia and industry. “Our goal is to ensure that 90 percent of our graduates will be in an employment situation of their choice six years after graduation,” said Dr. Quy Nguyen, director of career development and minority enrichment. Topics beyond mode of practice ranged from life as a new OD, budgeting and retirement planning, marketing to different demographics and interviewing. Prospective employers also attended the event for the first time. Dr. Benjamin Arthur ’13 shares stories from his life as a new OD. SUNY OPTOMETRY Work in Progress: Innovative Teaching Labs on the Lower Lobby Level The College is renovating the space to create new student teaching labs, including a preclinical virtual reality simulation lab and an anatomy/biomedical science lab. Current status: Under construction; demolition completed and framing is underway Budget: $3,702,785 Projected completion date: August 2019 Summer Flex Program The College offers many opportunities for students to customize their academic experiences, including electives and clinical rotations in advanced topics. First-year students now have the option to lighten their schedule in the spring semester by taking a course during the following summer. They may also take one second-year fall course during the preceeding summer. High-Tech Classroom: Learning with Virtual Human Anatomy SUNY Optometry’s gross anatomy course has gradually incorporated digital dissections and specimens that will ultimately replace the use of human cadavers. This transition began when the College purchased multiple modules of the Panasonic 3D Multiview Anatomy System, which allows multilayered dissections of actual cadaver images at a very high resolution. “The system provides greater autonomy to choose more views and angles than are possible in traditional cadaverbased instruction,” said Dr. Suresh Viswanathan, associate professor and chair of biological and vision sciences. The College will also add the Anatomage Table, a touch interactive display system for teaching and learning human anatomy. 6
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