I SPY the Specialty
What is the name of the doctor that treats the eye?
What is ophthalmologists or optometrists.
What can you put in your eye daily to see?
What are Contact Lenses.
What is the name of the musical instrument that is also found in our ear?
It is called a drum, we have in our ear an Ear Drum.
What is used to amplify the sounds of your heart, lungs and intestines?
What is a Stethoscope.
Every University has one, who is Sal the Salamander? (Show Picture)
A mascot. He is the mascot of Salus University
What profession helps you to perform daily living activities?
What is an Occupational Therapist.
What is the part of the eye that has color?
What is the Iris.
What musical form helps with stuttering?
Singing - The rhythmic pattern of music tends to help regulate a person's breathing. There is now evidence that the brain functions differently for singing than it does for talking. When we sing, we generally know the words of the song by heart.
Who would use a screwdriver, drills, hammers and pliers for medical use?
An orthotists and prosthetists.
It is important to cultivate positive relationships with your professors and supervisors so you can ask them to write these?
Letters of Recommendations
I have a lisp and a stutter who would I see?
A Speech Language Pathologist
What is the benefit of transition lenses?
Transitions lenses react quickly to changing light and darken outside in bright sunlight.
What is the most important organ in our mouth?
Why it is the tongue, its a vital organ that not only allows us to taste our food but integral in our speech.
Who would make you read a snellen chart? (Show Picture)
An optometrist.
Salus University has only been our name since 2008 what were we before?
We were the Pennsylvania College of Optometry from 1919 to 2008. PCO joined the Osborne College of Audiology & College of Health Sciences, Education & Rehabilitation in 2008 to become Salus University.
A Physician Assistant
This is a Phoropter (show picture) at the eye doctor what does this machine do?
This machine determines the prescription you need for your eyeglasses.
True or False, we have crystals in our ears
True, when these crystals displace in our inner ear, it can cause a type of vertigo called benign paroxysmal positional vertigo.
An Identification Cane or White Cane.
It is a test you take to enter Optometry School as well as a cereal you soak overnight?
OATs (Optometry Admission Test)
What healthcare provider would your ENT would refer you too if your ears were ringing all the time?
What is an audiologist?
Cataracts affects and appears in the eye slowly over the years? What does it do to the eye?
It makes its cloudy and you have blurry vision.
What is this device? What does it do? (Show Picture)
These are Cochlear Implants. It is a surgical device that is implanted to improve profound hearing loss.
What is an Ear Trumpet? (show picture)
A early form of an hearing aid.
This is something that always follows you everywhere you go and it's a requirement for most of our graduate programs.
It is called Shadowing.