Benefits & Discounts
All Members
- Biannual copy of the AOSA newsletter Foresight
- Student Health Insurance through United Healthcare
- Insurance Coverage by AGIA – Term Life, Disability, Temporary, Accident (Phone: 800-245-4454)
- Free AOA membership including the Contact Lens and Cornea and Sports Vision Sections
- Opportunity to apply for an AOSA-Allergan or an AOSA-TVCI Travel Grant to Optometry’s Meeting®
- Reduced registration fees to Optometry’s Meeting®
- Access to the Optometry: Journal of the American Optometric Association web site. This includes access to the archives of hundreds of other scholarly periodicals in the Elsevier network.
- Full access to the Optometry: Journal of the American Optometric Association web site requires registration. Part of the required registration is your AOA member ID number. Please contact AOA to request your member ID if you do not have it.
- AOA's Career Advocate Program
But that's not all…
First Year Students
- AOSA T-shirt (1 per student) (sponsored by AOSA)
- Clipboards (sponsored by Optical Laboratories Association)
- Flash Drive (sponsored by the AOA)
- Educational Tool Brochure (sponsored by AOSA)
- Lens Cloth (sponsored by Varilux / Essilor)
Second Year Students
- Academic Planner (sponsored by the AOA)
- AOSA lapel pin (sponsored by AOSA)
- Educational Tool Brochure (sponsored by AOSA)
- Optometric Reference Guide (sponsored by HOYA Optical)
- Efron Grading Scales (sponsored by The Vision Care Institute)
- Lens Cloth (sponsored by Varilux / Essilor)
Third Year Students
- Academic Planner (sponsored by the AOA)
- Educational Tool Brochure (sponsored by AOSA)
- Binocular Vision Kit and Finger Puppet (sponsored by OEP and COVD)
- Ocular Disease Vision Simulator Cards (sponsored by Enhanced Vision)
- Lens Cloth (sponsored by Varilux)
- Free Personalized Business Cards
Fourth Year Students
- Access to AOA’s Optometry Career Center
- Pediatric Exam CD (sponsored by the AOSA)
- Educational Tool Brochure (sponsored by AOSA)
- Portfolio (sponsored by AOSA)
- Speedy PD Ruler (sponsored by Amcon)
- Progressive Identifier Book (sponsored by Optical Laboratories Association)
- Lens Cloth (sponsored by Varilux / Essilor)
- Free Personalized Business Cards
Your AOSA Board of Trustees has worked hard over the years to keep costs down and to make ties with industry that support our unified goals. Our generous sponsors enable us to have our fantastic AOSA Conference at Optometry’s Meeting® and many of our member benefits. So continue your membership throughout your time as a student, and then continue on to the AOA. Be proud of your profession, and enjoy the free Benefits along the way!
Note: It is up to the discretion of the Trustee at your school to decide what years to distribute benefits.