Optometry personal statement
I am currently a year 13 student who is a day away from sending in her application for universities. I plan to study a course in optometry but I am also applying to do orthoptics at Sheffield as one of my choices. However, my personal statement has not mentioned orthoptics at all. Im wondering if this will affect my applications.
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Hi, thanks so much. This is actually really reassuring cos I was worried because I didn't mention orthoptics even once.
Hey, congrats on the offer!! Did you do an interview with Aston before you got an offer? x
Yep it was online and honestly found it really good!
Hi there, do you have any advice when preparing for the interview? I have one coming up soon, any help is appreciated!!
Sure! Some tips I have would be:
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Make sure to go over the GOC standards to be able to throw them into any answer
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Have examples of when you’ve demonstrated empathy, teamwork, leadership, organisation
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Be able to use the STARL method when talking about your healthcare work experience/ volunteering/dealing with a situation in roleplay so setting, task/problem, (I forgot what a stands for I’m so sorry), reflect and link back to optom
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Research your university, the city and the course including teaching style, placement years and modules you might like
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Be able to mention research or articles (one or two is good enough to sound like you’ve done wide reading)
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Wider reading by mentioning talking to optom students, reading journals and wex
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Be able to put yourself in a roleplay by remaining open and empathise with whoever, staying silent is good to allow actor to speak, and keep asking open questions- try to deal with situation offer support and strategise a solution (you don’t need to make any sort of treatments!)
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Stay logical and always say your reasoning to your decision out loud as that’s what they’re thinking about
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Make sure to go over the GOC standards to be able to throw them into any answer
•
Have examples of when you’ve demonstrated empathy, teamwork, leadership, organisation
•
Be able to use the STARL method when talking about your healthcare work experience/ volunteering/dealing with a situation in roleplay so setting, task/problem, (I forgot what a stands for I’m so sorry), reflect and link back to optom
•
Research your university, the city and the course including teaching style, placement years and modules you might like
•
Be able to mention research or articles (one or two is good enough to sound like you’ve done wide reading)
•
Wider reading by mentioning talking to optom students, reading journals and wex
•
Be able to put yourself in a roleplay by remaining open and empathise with whoever, staying silent is good to allow actor to speak, and keep asking open questions- try to deal with situation offer support and strategise a solution (you don’t need to make any sort of treatments!)
•
Stay logical and always say your reasoning to your decision out loud as that’s what they’re thinking about
Trying to decide between Optom and radiography help
Me too!! I can't decide which I should do
Have you been to any open days and listened to the subject talks? Have you managed to get a day of shadowing experience in a hospital DR department or any optom work experience?
I'm still in y12 but I'm planning to visit a few unis and hear from students. But work experience for optometry is quite hard to get, I tried finding virtual work experience but I can't find any relevant opportunities.
what are you leaning towards?
So my main choices are pharmacy and optometry, with radiography as a backup. But I'm not quite sure which I will end up studying
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