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Last Minute Optics: A Concise Review of Optics, Refraction and Contact Lenses


by David G. Hunter, Constance E. West

List Price: $44.95
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Sales Rank: 455214
Studio: Slack Incorporated
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: January 15, 1996
Publisher: Slack Incorporated


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Product Description
This unique new guide allows you to test your knowledge while increasing your understanding of optics. It is a handy, clinically relevant manual that presents the optics facts and concepts you need the most. The clear and concise question-and-answer format allows self-assessment while studying. Easy-to-understand explanations of complicated concepts make the topic manageable. Numerous practical tips will enhance your efficiency and effectiveness in the clinic. Many simple illustrations help make sense of difficult concepts.

Last Minute Optics: A Concise Review of Optics, Refraction and Contact Lenses is an invaluable study guide and a great reference that is directly applicable to your everyday clinical practice. Chapters include Basic Principles, The Model Eye, Acuity Testing, Refraction and Optical Dispensing, Astigmatism, Contact Lenses, Intraocular Lenses, Magnification and Telescopes, Low Vision, Mirrors, and Instruments.

David G. Hunter, MD, PhD is an assistant professor of Ophthalmology and Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He has presented lectures on optics worldwide. Constance West, MD is on staff at the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati. She is active in residence training and has lectured on optics and refraction in many cities across the United States.

Special Features

  • Unique question-and-answer format.
  • Over 200 questions and answers on optics.
  • Perfect for limited study time.
  • Written in a light and approachable style to make optics accessible and understandable.
  • Practical, clinically relevant tips enhance your practice.


CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 3 reviews)

A MUST READ !!!  
it is not a standard text, not meant to be. but it is a very practical review with practical information and applications not found in many standard texts. the information is also pretty current and accurate, albeit paltry. definitely a good read the month before the exam, and the best review material for those finished with the exams. a nice fresh approach to a tedious task all in all. good one!
July 06, 2008

Great review for Ophthalmologists  
Throw away the Academy of Ophthalmology's optics book. This concise text is all you need. If you read it carefully, do the problems and really learn what it teaches, you will score very well on the OKAPs and board exams.
February 08, 2006

Aimed at the exam taker  
As a reference book, this little handbook falls short.

As alearning tool it is also lacking, with little detail or helpfuldiagrams.

However, as a study tool, this review should serve the student well if he/she had a real reference from which to learn. That is, in fact, what it markets itself to be -- a last minute study review -- so no false advertising here.

Kirk Carver, Patient Advocate,...
June 13, 2000



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