Why I Chose Optometry - My Optometry Journey

Hey, guys! I have had a lot of requests for a video of my journey and why I chose optometry. This video covers why I became an optometrist, my pre-med college experience and getting into optometry school. Basically how I became an optometrist and started my optometry career.

This video was cut down quite a bit for time but I could easily go into more details of my experience in optometry school as well as my optometry residency if you have any questions. Please drop any questions in the comments and if there is enough demand for it perhaps I will do a dedicated video going over my residency experience.

Either way, thank you so much for all your support. I am incredibly grateful for all the success I have seen here on YouTube and I owe it all to you. Thank you for being part of this community and helping spread the knowledge and importance of eye health!

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About this video: This video goes into why I became an optometrist, my optometry school experience and how to get into optometry school. While my path to an optometry career may be different than most, I hope that sharing my experience helps some people and helps the community get to know me better. Thank you for watching and I look forward to providing you with more content soon.

[DoctorEyeHealth]

Thank you so much for watching and supporting the channel! Please let me know if you have any questions about my optometry journey and if you would like to know more about me.

[laurenplatero]

Optometrists are by far some of best doctors I’ve ever met. I don’t know what it is but they’re always the most relaxed & friendliest. The only doctors visit I never stress over lol

[nailaalharthy]

Hi, I am ophthalmologist and my patients are very educated. They like to ask a lot of questions. I ask them to watch your YouTube video for explanation. I find it very useful in my practice and make our life much easier at work . Well done. Excellent job. Keep up an excellent job.👍

[miriammaldonado]

Dr. Allen you're an amazing young eye doctor. In my 71 years of life, never heard anyone talking about their careers the way you did. Hope young students watch your video, so they can appreciate the effort you put into your attitude towards studying, and your reaserches for they to learn how is done! Thank you for sharing. I'm proud of you, and proud of your parents. God bless you, and your family abundantly.

[like.clarkwork]

Hearing you be so honest and wax poetic about your experience makes me feel hopeful that I can go on to do something I'd enjoy for the rest of my life. I appreciate how you talk about that you acknowledge how much of a struggle that school was worth before you went onto what you wanted to do. Thank you for this video.

[Drpepperuk]

Hi, from one Optometrist to another I'd just like to personally thank you for putting in the time, effort, and hard work in explaining your role as a working optometrist. I just wished I'd of thought of making my own YouTube channel doing the same thing! Keep up the good work Joseph 😁 👓👓👁️👁️👁️👍🏻👍🏻

[amyk]

A very impressive journey into the medical field and something that shows that you have a real passion for what you do. Loved hearing about it and look forward to checking out your other videos

[justally]

I'm starting optometry school this August & this video made me so EXCITED and EAGER to learn :)) Thank you Dr. Allen

[LilYoda]

I’m so happy I came across this channel. It’s definitely helped me today by learning more about dry eyes and which drops are best. What a journey! Looking forward to more awesome videos :)

[heidifris]

I know that I personally appreciate your channel so much. I love having more information about your background so thank you!

[catherinekasiewicz]

Fascinating video!! I had no idea about all the things you had to learn. Congratulations on all you do. It’s great that you’re helping us learn more. 💕💕

[therealdeal]

Thank you so much for sharing your personal journey! You are a gem, Dr. Allen! Really appreciate your videos!

[ssshikari]

This was such a great video! Thanks for the insight on how you came to be an optometrist. I love this style of video with more candid conversation. I really enjoyed this!

[geraldl]

Thank you for producing the BEST vids in everything eyes!❤️

[mamam]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and make it easy to understand! Keep these videos coming!

[yuhanliu]

Awesome video man! Really cool to know more about you as a person. You definitely made the difference between night and day on with my dry eye journey, which was literally ruining my life. I learned so much about my condition from this channel and was able to get the proper treatments I needed. Once again thank you for your time and dedication!

[dannygreene]

Great video. Always nice to know the back ground of people who are telling us about anything computers, cars, TVs, orthopedics, general medicine and of course eye care. Knowing they have spent time learning.

[tammyhunsberger]

I enjoyed hearing about why and how you decided your path in life. Very nice!
The videos are informative and gives idea of different options and questions you can present to your own doctor.🤗

[ScottDabson]

You definitely helped me! I went from having just readers to finally getting my eyes examined. Now I have contact lenses and glasses. I'm loving the freedom of contacts!! Newly into them, putting contacts in is good. Talking them out is a bit if a struggle. I've got big hands... My wife is surprised how well I'm doing with them. I owe that to you. THANKS!!

[MrsChewy]

Hey there! This was a fantastic insight into your career journey. Thank you for sharing. I'm a week away from sitting my Final Qualifying Exams to become a Dispensing Optician. I've been working full time in a Private Optometry Practice and doing this course over 3 years distance learning between Ireland and the UK. Its been a struggle with time and energy in honesty but I find it very rewarding. After finding your chanel, I am considering doing a conversion course to Optometry in the coming years. I appreciate the time and effort you put into this chanel, its incredible to hear you have been running it yourself. I honestly thought there was a team already behind the content. Thanks for all your efforts. Looking forward to future videos