Class of 2015... How ya doing?

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StartingoverVet said:
Having to get to the hospital at 6:30 am, 2nd day after break is just unfair beyond belief. My tiredness has reached mid semester levels already. 😡

Ok.. re-reading that, it sounds REALLY whining. Grow some balls SOV! :meanie:

Ok... now I sound insane, having a conversation with myself on the internet. This is not going well.
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It really does sound like whining. I had to get there by 6:30 yesterday ... and I'm not even BACK from break until next Monday. Hmph. 🙂
 
StartingoverVet said:
Having to get to the hospital at 6:30 am, 2nd day after break is just unfair beyond belief. My tiredness has reached mid semester levels already. 😡

Ok.. re-reading that, it sounds REALLY whining. Grow some balls SOV! :meanie:

Ok... now I sound insane, having a conversation with myself on the internet. This is not going well.
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Never fear; I shall whine *louder* so that nobody notices. (deep breath)

WHAAAAAH!!!!!!!! I DON'T WANNA GO TO MED/SURG AND CLIN PATH I WANNA GO TO BED!!!!!!!!!!!
 
pooter said:
Never fear; I shall whine *louder* so that nobody notices. (deep breath)

WHAAAAAH!!!!!!!! I DON'T WANNA GO TO MED/SURG AND CLIN PATH I WANNA GO TO BED!!!!!!!!!!!
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And the astute will notice that I'm not in Med/Surg at the moment. Apparently, my New Years resolution is to slack off more. I predict resounding success! 😳
 
pooter said:
And the astute will notice that I'm not in Med/Surg at the moment. Apparently, my New Years resolution is to slack off more. I predict resounding success! 😳
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I actually think Dr. Oyama is a pretty good lecturer. Everything seems to make sense to me.. Listening at home is probably fine though.
 
First day back. Coming back to school has actually made me feel a hell of a lot better about everything. Even if classes seem terrifying (anesthesiology? surgery? ME?!), it's nice to start back into the routine.
 
that redhead said:
First day back. Coming back to school has actually made me feel a hell of a lot better about everything. Even if classes seem terrifying (anesthesiology? surgery? ME?!), it's nice to start back into the routine.
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There is certainly something to be said for routine. too bad I don't have one, EVER.
 
pooter said:
And of course it had to be two hours of thoracic radiography (which I don't get even when my brain is working). Happy New Year to us. 😡
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Ouch. They did that to us last year too.
Med/Surg I gets much more enjoyable after the cardio section is over!

Here's my class intro for you guys:

This is Med/Surg where we put together everything from other classes and actually learn doctor stuff... we will go system by system and learn diseases, diagnostics, and treatments. Med Surg I covers pretty much everything in the head and thorax. Med Surg II will pick up with endocrine, liver, GI, urinary, cancer, repro, and neuro. There are 4 tests for Med/Surg I. They are (all or mostly) multiple choice and they are medium difficulty. A common theme in Med/Surg is an absent course organizer, but most lecturers are pretty good so it works out okay. Something something vertebral heart sum.
 
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Re: Dr. Oyama he's a really good lecturer! He does tend to change up his slides and not give you the updated version, so it is nice to actually be in class for when that happens.
 
My diagnostic pathfinder cases never end up looking like the expert solution!!! They've got the same basic idea but hers always have way more information. Clin path= 🙁
 
Well, we have started radiology, clinical pathology, lab animal medicine, and the second half of pharmacology.

So far I'm not too overwhelmed which is great because I'm sick... I didn't study last night, and only barely got through 6 pages of pharm notes before calling it quits. Hopefully tomorrow is better.

I think lab animal medicine is going to be a lot of fun, plus we are covering ferrets on my birthday, so that's something to look forward to 🙂
 
scb44f said:
Well, we have started radiology, clinical pathology, lab animal medicine, and the second half of pharmacology.

So far I'm not too overwhelmed which is great because I'm sick... I didn't study last night, and only barely got through 6 pages of pharm notes before calling it quits. Hopefully tomorrow is better.

I think lab animal medicine is going to be a lot of fun, plus we are covering ferrets on my birthday, so that's something to look forward to 🙂
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Our schedule is so similar here, though I'm not in the lab animal elective. We had clin path last semester though. We have epi this semester... wheeee.

I feel like all my classes will bore me this semester. :d
 
twelvetigers said:
Our schedule is so similar here, though I'm not in the lab animal elective. We had clin path last semester though. We have epi this semester... wheeee.

I feel like all my classes will bore me this semester. :d
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Yeah, I feel like we should have epi or during second year, not way before, but that is how our administration currently has it.

I think clin path could bore me but our professor is good about not talking straight from ppts and uses notecards that have all our names on them and asks questions. Fortunately they are sensible questions, unlike those that our anatomical path professor liked to ask... Thank goodness that's over!
 
we have surgical skills, intro to clinical med, anesthesiology, epidemiology, VPH, avian fish and exotic animal diseases, clinical neurology, and path II this semester, and i'm taking veterinary emergency and disaster preparedness as an elective on top of that. i don't know whether i feel excited, completely overwhelmed or absolutely terrified!
 
Initially I posted this on 2016 because my brain refuses to work. So anyway, now I'm in the appropriate group.

Classes this semester:
-Surgery
-Dermatology
-Gastrointestinal
-Systemic Path
-Neurology
-Anesthesiology
-P&P Medicine (I don't know what it stands for so don't ask)
-Urology
-Ophthamology
-Emergency and Critical Care
-Orthopedics
-Clinical Pharm

Then a week off to see my brother graduate from college and relax before we get thrown into clinics!
 
Bearby said:
Initially I posted this on 2016 because my brain refuses to work. So anyway, now I'm in the appropriate group.

Classes this semester:
-Surgery
-Dermatology
-Gastrointestinal
-Systemic Path
-Neurology
-Anesthesiology
-P&P Medicine (I don't know what it stands for so don't ask)
-Urology
-Ophthamology
-Emergency and Critical Care
-Orthopedics
-Clinical Pharm

Then a week off to see my brother graduate from college and relax before we get thrown into clinics!
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A lot of cross over of course.... this is our busiest semester. we have a month of hell from mid april to mid may that I will not think about. .


VANB607 General Pharmacology & Toxicology
VMED608 Introductory Poultry, Swine, and Dairy Medicine
VMED611 Veterinary Medicine/Surgery I
VMED618 ICVM IV (cont)
VPTH606 Clinical Pathology
VSUR603 Clinical Orthopedics
VMED606 Principles of Epidemiology
VMED607 Veterinary Public Health
VMED609 Infectious & Metabolic Diseases
VSUR604 Anesthesia
Electives
VCSN630 Equine Neonatology & Intensive Care Medicine
VCSN654 (2013) Global Health & Food Security
 
We've got:
- Pharm/Tox II
- Systemic Path II
- Aquaculture and Fish Health
- Principles of Surgery
- Principles of Medicine
- Principles of Anesthesia
- Principles of Therio
- Clin Path
 
i am SO glad i am done with my year of pharm, ugh! good riddance to that class haha. too bad we have a separate tox class 2nd semester year 3!
 
Well, I have a 10-day externship thinger at a big specialty/emergency hospital where my mom lives for this summer, and I just scheduled an externship with Humane Alliance for the spring of our 4th year. So so so pumped! We have chosen one of our free blocks already and next Friday is when our preferences for required and elective rotations are due. Then we find out in March what we have to work with!

SAVMA is also in March, and we are adding a vacation to the tail end of that during spring break.

We start our surgery class in just a couple of months too.

Unfortunately I still have to get through this radiology exam tomorrow before any of that can happen...
 
Wow, sounds awesome scb!

I'm in the middle of setting up a potentially awesome internship with the government for the summer- at least a month with them but possibly more, depending on my application/acceptance to another program. The first one isn't paid but sounds like it's a bit more up my alley; the second one would pay nicely and be a shorter commute. I'm going to need to get blood pulled for a measles titer, though, which always sucks. Need a TB test too but that's not so bad. I'll just schedule them in my abundant free time- the two weeks between getting home from Canada and getting married 🙄 It'd be sweet if I could get both jobs and take in a little cash, but either way I think my summer is shaping up nicely 🙂
 
that redhead said:
Wow, sounds awesome scb!

I'm in the middle of setting up a potentially awesome internship with the government for the summer- at least a month with them but possibly more, depending on my application/acceptance to another program. The first one isn't paid but sounds like it's a bit more up my alley; the second one would pay nicely and be a shorter commute. I'm going to need to get blood pulled for a measles titer, though, which always sucks. Need a TB test too but that's not so bad. I'll just schedule them in my abundant free time- the two weeks between getting home from Canada and getting married 🙄 It'd be sweet if I could get both jobs and take in a little cash, but either way I think my summer is shaping up nicely 🙂
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Hahah abundant free time... Do you want to do public health or food safety or something? Either way, sounds cool!

Just an aside, but that radiology exam reminded me that I am in fact still in vet school, and that this block will in fact be another struggle to get through. I announced my typical post-not-so-good-exam threat to quit vet school to my husband, cleaned the kitchen and dishes because it was too cluttered, ate a snack, and now I'm back to happily thinking of clinics and graduation. Classes can't move fast enough...
 
scb44f said:
Hahah abundant free time... Do you want to do public health or food safety or something? Either way, sounds cool!

Just an aside, but that radiology exam reminded me that I am in fact still in vet school, and that this block will in fact be another struggle to get through. I announced my typical post-not-so-good-exam threat to quit vet school to my husband, cleaned the kitchen and dishes because it was too cluttered, ate a snack, and now I'm back to happily thinking of clinics and graduation. Classes can't move fast enough...
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Lab animal, maybe public health.

And radiology is hard :\
 
that redhead said:
Lab animal, maybe public health.

And radiology is hard :\
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Good deal! We are in lab animal medicine right now. It is a lot of fun and makes me want to take the lab animal clinical elective, but there are about 8 or so others I already want to take and we only get 5 total, so it's not really a possibility.

Oh, and congrats on getting married soon!
 
I was just digging up this thread to complain about midterms:laugh: The thing is, I'm starting to kind of like anesthesiology. Probably because I like pharm and because the whole machine part is making a little bit of sense. But I'm pretty terrified for the actual exam, especially Dr. L's part :scared:
 
I get the concepts and I like the pharm (yay, pharm!). But the details! And yeah, not looking forward to Dr L's section. I'm trying to brace myself for the worst. Bursting into tears may very well be a possibility.
 
2 weeks 5 exams and a quiz between me and Spring Break. But, my brain has already gone on vacation 🙁
 
su_grad2007 said:
2 weeks 5 exams and a quiz between me and Spring Break. But, my brain has already gone on vacation 🙁
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Same here minus the quiz. My brain hasn't gone on vacation yet, but it's ever so tired...
 
We got 10 inches of snow on Thursday, school was canceled on Friday, and we are supposed to get another 5-10 inches on Monday and Tuesday. This week is the end of our block and we are supposed to have finals on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. If that happens, I hope they record lectures and just make us learn it on our own for the already scheduled test times, but there is talk of them pushing finals into the first week of next block.
 
We also have 5 exams before spring break. 5 exams, a week of just classes, then spring break to be precise. I'm just so tired of studying. I've had pretty good habits this semester, but that means that there have been very few days that I haven't done at least a couple of hours of studying. My brain is tired of trying, plus I for some reason tend to have a really hard time managing my anxiety during this time of the year. It's definitely better this year than it was last year, but I feel like I become a different person in February/March.

Anyway, enough complaining, time to go back to studying. Blah
 
We have the bulk of our midterms the next few weeks, which is after our "spring break" which was Feb 14 - Feb18. I'm not sure if I would rather have them before where you're trying really hard to focus on classes before break or after, where you spent no time studying over break and have to cram now, haha.

And I get weird around this time of year too, Bearby. All the snow and cold jsut makes studying harder and makes the time drag on. I get itchy for spring (when I procrastinate even more because it's relatively nice outside. Oops.)
 
We have three weeks until our break. One exam each week, not too bad. I'm still worried about a test I took Friday... but I'm glad our midterms aren't all clumped up into a single week.

But we have had at least one exam per week and will for the entire semester, except the first two or three weeks. So it's spread out, but somewhat relentless.
 
For the majority of 2nd year, we have had 2-3 exams per week anyway. This block has been relatively kind to us, giving us only 1-2 exams per week. I'm not sure what next block looks like other than I know we currently have an exam scheduled on a day that we aren't supposed to (it is the week after open house, the idea being that we can spend a weekend helping with open house and not have to worry about exams for a few days).
 
Well our radiology final is now pushed back until next week, I.e. in the middle of the first week of new classes. At least it lets me focus on pharm and Clin path for Friday...
 
Having a really hard time with principles of surgery lab. I understand the suture patterns and all but when it comes to actually DOING them I blank. It's just not helpful to show us a bunch of patterns, give us 5mins to work on them and then cram some more down our throats. It's not working for my brain and I feel frustrated and stupid 🙁 I know I just need to practice more but aaarghhh.
 
that redhead said:
Having a really hard time with principles of surgery lab. I understand the suture patterns and all but when it comes to actually DOING them I blank. It's just not helpful to show us a bunch of patterns, give us 5mins to work on them and then cram some more down our throats. It's not working for my brain and I feel frustrated and stupid 🙁 I know I just need to practice more but aaarghhh.
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surgery skills was really frustrating for me too at first. i've found that taking a few minutes to practice most nights of the week has really helped me to better understand and perform the patterns assigned. use it as an excuse to watch tv for a little while!
 
that redhead said:
Having a really hard time with principles of surgery lab. I understand the suture patterns and all but when it comes to actually DOING them I blank. It's just not helpful to show us a bunch of patterns, give us 5mins to work on them and then cram some more down our throats. It's not working for my brain and I feel frustrated and stupid 🙁 I know I just need to practice more but aaarghhh.
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I kind of felt like you did until a couple of days before the exam when I just practiced the patterns over and over again. They do start to make sense.. and I also found the labs useless.

Ended up being the easiest part of the class/exam.
 
Thanks guys. I know that repetitive practicing will help me a lot but I'm at that point in the semester where I don't have the time to devote to suture patterns each night. Maybe in a week or two when the bulk of midterms has passed👍
 
that redhead said:
Thanks guys. I know that repetitive practicing will help me a lot but I'm at that point in the semester where I don't have the time to devote to suture patterns each night. Maybe in a week or two when the bulk of midterms has passed👍
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I only worked on them the weekend before the exam. I was in the same shoes as you!
 
Two path exams (lab and lecture) this week. Made it through one professor's lectures but now have to wade through the other one's which are considerably more dense and are full of "not for the exam" sections. It's awesome that we don't have to know it, but why clutter up our packets 😕

Also, my house needs to be cleaned desperately. Eek.
 
that redhead said:
Two path exams (lab and lecture) this week. Made it through one professor's lectures but now have to wade through the other one's which are considerably more dense and are full of "not for the exam" sections. It's awesome that we don't have to know it, but why clutter up our packets 😕

Also, my house needs to be cleaned desperately. Eek.
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you have a lab exam?? holy smokes thats awful!! what the heck do you have to do for it? (also, what do you guys do for path lab - our year has been a mix of looking at histopath slides, receiving more lectures, spending time in the necropsy room, and watching auburn necropsy rounds videos with discussion)

good luck!:luck:
 
jmo1012 said:
you have a lab exam?? holy smokes thats awful!! what the heck do you have to do for it? (also, what do you guys do for path lab - our year has been a mix of looking at histopath slides, receiving more lectures, spending time in the necropsy room, and watching auburn necropsy rounds videos with discussion)

good luck!:luck:
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Yeah 🙁 First year (general path) they set out specimens and we went around to each one and gave a morph, then sometimes an etiology or pathogenesis or whatever. They had a few histo slides printed out and we had to answer questions about that lesion. This year for lab exams (systemic path) they do a powerpoint with an image of the lesion or a histo slide and ask the same things- morph, description, etiology, pathogenesis, etc.

For path lab we have two hours broken into 1 hour each of histo and gross. So half the class goes down to gross lab where specimens are set out and we get to look at them and ask questions. There's also usually a powerpoint presentation. For the other half, each different professor does the histo part differently. We either look at slides on microscopes or powerpoint and have either a lecture type thing associated with it or a "look at these slides and tell me what you see" which is always like pulling teeth because no one has ever studied at that point and we have no idea :laugh:

And thanks🙂
 
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