Our first week at Illinois was pretty interesting, and we all had quite different experiences. My first rotation was Farm Animal Husbandry and Techniques so we got to do physical exams on goats, cows, horses and sheep. They taught us how to draw blood from pigs and cows, and we even got to do the infamous rectal palpations-in our first week! We got to be involved in seeing some cases that came into the large animal teaching hospital. pretty exciting stuff. i'm digging the new Illinois curriculum so far. my next rotation is Ophthamology, and so you have an idea..my other class mates are in rotations like:
Diagnostics, Oncology, Imaging, SUrgical skills, anesthesia, equine medicine and surgery, exotic pet management, rehabilitation medicine, small animal ER, dentistry and wildlife medicine, to name just a few.