View from SUNY Optometry: What’s It Like to be a First Year OD Student

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View from SUNY Optometry: What’s It Like to be a First Year OD Student

March 5, 2020

Jana Widell talks about what it's like to be in the first year of the Doctor of Optometry program at the SUNY College of Optometry

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