The American Optometric Student Association

AOA Student Membership

As a student of optometry, your membership with the American Optometric Association (AOA) is complimentary and is contingent upon your status as an active member of the American Optometric Student Association (AOSA). AOA offers many benefits to its student members. Some of these benefits are outlined below.

Finding Practice Opportunities

Members who need help finding employment or a practice situation – or members who need to find an employee or an associate – can now register online for AOA's opportunity-matching service, Optometry's Career Center® (OCC).

Running a Practice

Doctors who need help starting or expanding a practice, who want to extend their practice to include children's and infants' vision, or who may be contemplating adding vision therapy to their practice can find information on all of these topics on the Career Advocate for the New Practitioner.
Other practice management resources:

• Practice Assistance Program [mentoring]
• Prescriptive Authority Maps

Employed and Affiliated ODs

Employed doctors and those in settings affiliated with retail optical companies have all the needs of solo practitioners plus all the problems associated with contracts and the legal issues surrounding the term "independent contractor." To help meet those needs, AOA developed the Resource Guide fo Employed/Affiliated Optometrists. Don't sign a contact without reading this valuable resource!

Contact AOA for any of the following resources: