We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Randa Djabri a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Randa, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Let’s go back in time to when you were an intern or apprentice – what’s an interesting story you can share from that stage of your career?

A lot of people don’t know how long and extensive an optometrists career path is, so I think this is a great opportunity to discuss this. I personally completed 4 years of undergraduate college at Nova Southeastern University then went on to complete 4 years of optometry school at the NSU College of Optometry.
After the 8 years of schooling, I chose to further my education and expand my experience by pursuing a residency in primary care with emphasis in ocular disease at the Miami VA Medical Center for 1 year.
Beyond my schooling and training, I chose to become a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry and completing the extra research while I was busy staring up my private practice.

Optometry is definitely one of the professions that people lack the background schooling and training information about.

Randa, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

My name is Randa Djabri. I am an eye doctor. I have been practicing optometry and caring for people’s eye health for 3 years now. My interest in optometry came late during my college career after shadowing a few local optometrists. Right after residency, I decided to open up my own private practice and build my own little eye care empire. I wanted to practice eye care in the way that I saw was best fit for me. I enjoy giving each and every patient the time they need in my exam room and that is what I believe sets me apart from others. Quality eye care and long term strong relationships with patients is my priority over quantity of patients. I recently started to gear my office specialty towards dry eye management and treatment using the latest technology and that is another thing that sets me apart from the crowd,

If you could go back in time, do you think you would have chosen a different profession or specialty?

Although I went into optometry school after liking what I saw in the profession as an undergraduate student, I knew very little about the details of the job and specifics of the scope of the profession. I can never forget my astonishment each time I learned something new that I didn’t know was within the scope of optometry going through optometry school. The profession exceeded my expectations. It became the perfect balance of routine and variety. And that was exactly what I was looking for.
If I had to go back in time and choose a profession again, without a doubt, optometry would be my choice.

Putting training and knowledge aside, what else do you think really matters in terms of succeeding in your field?

Aside from long and tedious years of school, training and hard work, success in the field of eye care comes from inter personal skills and networking with others in the community.

Without having these skills, even the most knowledgeable of doctors wouldn’t be able to fully care and relay his/her message to their patients.

Networking in the community is another important part of being successful because it creates a strong bond between groups of people that care for the same patients and helps them strive to deliver the highest quality care to their patients.

Contact Info:

• Website: synopticeyecare.com
• Instagram: @drdjabri

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