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Visual Perception: A Clinical Orientation

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Kudos to Dr. Schwartz for writing such a swell text. This book takes complicated subjects and condenses them into an easy afternoon read. If you read this book before taking Part I of NBEO, you'll greatly increase your chances of passing. The text essentially summarizes a significant number of concepts NBEO writes questions about. Thanks Doc Schwartz!

I am a 2nd year optometry student, and have only read chaps. 1-3 and 12 so far. It is very good. It explains concepts in a way that makes them very easy to comprehend. The writing overall is very good for such dry material. I would have given the book 5 stars if the figures were in color.

In optometry school, and this book is pretty interesting and very easy to read. Great book, very useful for boards.

For my purposes, this book really fits the bill. It brings Bartley's text, Vision: A Study of Its Basis, up-to-date and puts contemporary issues in an exposition that is readable and cogent. The manner in which the text is laid out is attractive to the reader and the illustrations are very helpful. Difficult material is treated in facile manner. The questions posed and the anwers given are of assistance in the understanding of the material.

This book is a must have for any 1st/2nd yr OD student or ophthalmology resident. It is definitely a watered down version of the Norton text (The Psychophysical Measurement of Visual Function), but the most important concepts are thoroughly described in an easy-to-read format. If you want to understand visual perception to the "MS" level, go with Schwartz. If you want the "PhD" level - go with Norton. For Boards, I'd say the Schwartz text is more than sufficient. Norton is fine, but you'll be wasting a lot of time on concepts that are not tested on NBEO.


Chris Gilmartin, OD