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Did someone cancel a final?Make that 3 finals :-D
Did someone cancel a final?Make that 3 finals :-D
Still in lectures for another week.
Still worried about passing third year.
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Haha, my internal medicine elective exam was online.Did someone cancel a final?
Are you gonna do any more rotations out my way?It's so nice to catch up with my fellow 2016s I finish LA Sx tomorrow and start ambulatory Monday. These 6 weeks of large animals feels like paradise
Yes ma'am. I'll be in Nebraska next March and hope to be in OK either prior to or after my time at GPVECAre you gonna do any more rotations out my way?
****. I'm in town for a few days. Let me know you want to go for a movie or alcohol or coffee or kickboxing or whatever will make you feel better.Wrote my last vet school final this morning then had 4th year orientation. Officially in my clinical year! I would be more excited if my relationship hadn't unexpectedly ended Friday and I didn't feel like my life has been turned upside down No idea what I'm going to do with my life except try to get through these first few rotations.
The Senior Book went up online that tells us who else is taking rotations at the same time ! Just a little over a week away from clinics with my last day of class tomorrow and my last legitimate final on Monday (rest are take home, open note)
Wrote my last vet school final this morning then had 4th year orientation. Officially in my clinical year! I would be more excited if my relationship hadn't unexpectedly ended Friday and I didn't feel like my life has been turned upside down No idea what I'm going to do with my life except try to get through these first few rotations.
For reals. This time next month, I'll be fully in clinics. Ready and not ready for it at the same time.
I am not a horse person. In fact, one could even say I am slightly afraid of horses given that 2 tried to kill me during our equine techniques class last fall.
This past week has been so amazing. I feel comfortable around horses. I can walk into a stall and do a physical by myself, do a rectal temperature by myself, without freaking out. I am learning so much. And I honestly never thought that I would stay an hour past my shift end to follow a case I was involved in all night because I was genuinely concerned about the patient. I'm really surprising myself.
I had a similar experience on my first rotation (equine sx). I absolutely love it and am trying to trade out multiple small animal rotations so I can take more equine!This gives me hope for my future experiences with horses and life haha
*HUGS* Totally breakdown worthy. My most stressful moments in vet school, and especially in fourth year, weren't major events, they were usually the culmination of a bunch of little crap happening simultaneously. Usually exacerbated by no sleep and/or food.Totally not breakdown worthy but for some reason I feel one coming on...
DislikeDespite my love of clinics & ambulatory, illness reared its ugly head. Off to urgent care this morning after almost one week of sick.
Seconded. Motion carried. When can the illness be adjourned?Dislike
*HUGS* Totally breakdown worthy. My most stressful moments in vet school, and especially in fourth year, weren't major events, they were usually the culmination of a bunch of little crap happening simultaneously. Usually exacerbated by no sleep and/or food.
*HUGS* Totally breakdown worthy. My most stressful moments in vet school, and especially in fourth year, weren't major events, they were usually the culmination of a bunch of little crap happening simultaneously. Usually exacerbated by no sleep and/or food.
Most stressful things weren't some major thing that I anticipated (other than NAVLE, that stupid, stupid test), it was just when circumstances conspired to hit you from all directions at once. Can't do much other than smile, do your best, and keep on keepin' on. The times that frustrated (not necessarily 'stressful') me the most were when clinicians want you to do 10 things all at precisely the same moment. And then get mad at you for not having them all simultaneously completed. The more experienced ones were good at recognizing how much a student can handle, and the interns were usually good at it because they were JUST there a year ago ... but those second- and third-year residents could be brutal sometimes with their expectations. More than once I heard a staff clinician tell a resident "You're expecting too much. You're asking for resident-level knowledge/performance and they aren't even DVMs yet." Most of them were great, but there were a few .... ooof.
Glad you made it through. I know there will be more, but we support you and and will listen to your breakdowns and offer interwebz hugs anytime.Thanks guys! I broke down very briefly, but I think a lot of it was just exhaustion related. I haven't really had a chance to sit and just chill yet, so that combined with not sleeping well for god knows how long (I wake up like 10+ times a night) and I just hit a small wall. First day of anesthesia went well I think and I actually like it and so far it's making sense. Sucked at catheters today which is odd for me, but whatever.
And the whole clinicians asking you to do 20 things at once was one of the hardest things for me when I was Soft Tissue as my first ever rotation back in February. I didn't know where things were, but was supposed to be doing all of them at once and it was just stressful.
After dialysis because of anuria/AKI, two hemoabdomens and an emergency liver lobectomy, my very first case of the rotation is going home tomorrow morning, a week and a half of ICU care later! I honestly can't believe he's still alive, but I'm very excited to get him home.
Yes! There's a picture of him going home on instagram!Corgi?
Yes! There's a picture of him going home on instagram!
Clinician: What are some things that cause hypokalemia?
Me: