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

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.

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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.

David G. Hunter, MD, PhD is Ophthalmologist-in-Chief and the Richard M. Robb Chair of Ophthalmology at Children's Hospital Boston. He is also the Vice Chair and Associate Professor of the Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology. Dr. Hunter obtained a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Rice University and a PhD (in Cell Biology) and MD from Baylor College of Medicine. After he completed an ophthalmology residency at Harvard's Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, he received fellowship training in pediatric ophthalmology with Drs. David Guyton and Michael Repka at the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Hunter lectures on optics and refraction for ophthalmologists-in-training around the world. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (2006-2012) and Vice President of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (2010). His clinical and research interests focus on strabismus and amblyopia.   

Constance E. West, MD  graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in chemical engineering. Dr. West then received her MD from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She completed a residency in ophthalmology at Washington University and a fellowship in pediatric ophthalmology at the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute. She is Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Cincinnati and Director of the Division of Ophthalmology and the Abrahamson Pediatric Eye Institute at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her clinical practice is devoted to pediatric ophthalmology and adult strabismus.