Class of 2019...how ya doing?

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Woo! Took my last necessary test of clinics. Now I get to just be and learn without paperwork irritating me.
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Gurgle. Got the usual notice that I should look at my loans, so I did. This is the final amount, so I hadn't looked at it since this last semester amount was added. It just made my eyes water and my stomach turn.
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Lupin21 said:
Gurgle. Got the usual notice that I should look at my loans, so I did. This is the final amount, so I hadn't looked at it since this last semester amount was added. It just made my eyes water and my stomach turn.
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If I don’t look, will it go away?
 
Lupin21 said:
I will miss our faculty and clinicians when I'm done. I mean, I'll be chatting with them through email and text, but still. Good people. This is my last week here, so I guess that is making me sentimental. lol
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There are some I will miss, others that I certainly won't, like the one that is currently stressing me out over make up shifts because I had the flu. I missed 2 days of the rotation and was originally told that I would need to make up one day, then I got an email stating I needed to make up 2 days. When I emailed asking for clarification on the excused absence policy, I was then informed that I needed to make up a total of 3 shifts, which will likely take 3 days. So 1 day has turned into 3, and I have no idea how I'm supposed to make that happen. I ended up contacting a higher up, and now the clinician is refusing to speak with me at all.
 
Skimble said:
There are some I will miss, others that I certainly won't, like the one that is currently stressing me out over make up shifts because I had the flu. I missed 2 days of the rotation and was originally told that I would need to make up one day, then I got an email stating I needed to make up 2 days. When I emailed asking for clarification on the excused absence policy, I was then informed that I needed to make up a total of 3 shifts, which will likely take 3 days. So 1 day has turned into 3, and I have no idea how I'm supposed to make that happen. I ended up contacting a higher up, and now the clinician is refusing to speak with me at all.
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:lame:
 
Feel like I disapeared for 3 years and came back and I'm almost done with school? What happened, where am I?

:heckyeah: Can't believe I'm finally "old enough" to be in job negotiations and to be starting my final vet school rotation next week... (8 weeks of surgery...Ugh.)
 
swiniazycie said:
Feel like I disapeared for 3 years and came back and I'm almost done with school? What happened, where am I?

:heckyeah: Can't believe I'm finally "old enough" to be in job negotiations and to be starting my final vet school rotation next week... (8 weeks of surgery...Ugh.)
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OMG HAI SWIN
 
Skimble said:
I'm apparently a terrible human being. I just feel like I'm being accused of faking the flu (I guess I faked the snap test results from my doctor as well).
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We have a clinician who's super hard on us about stuff like this. She instituted a rule that for every day missed, we make up 2 days. If we miss 3 days, we make up the whole 2 weeks. She doesn't care if someone in your immediate family died, if you lost a limb, etc.

I hope you get this figured out and it works out in your favor.
 
pinkpuppy9 said:
We have a clinician who's super hard on us about stuff like this. She instituted a rule that for every day missed, we make up 2 days. If we miss 3 days, we make up the whole 2 weeks. She doesn't care if someone in your immediate family died, if you lost a limb, etc.

I hope you get this figured out and it works out in your favor.
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Good grief. Not sure why this is a thing. People are weird.
 
pinkpuppy9 said:
We have a clinician who's super hard on us about stuff like this. She instituted a rule that for every day missed, we make up 2 days. If we miss 3 days, we make up the whole 2 weeks. She doesn't care if someone in your immediate family died, if you lost a limb, etc.

I hope you get this figured out and it works out in your favor.
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That is assinine and shouldn’t be allowed. Thankfully we have some pretty awesome student advocates, and I only have to make up one day, which I will be doing tomorrow. I’m looking forward to having it over with.
 
pinkpuppy9 said:
We have a clinician who's super hard on us about stuff like this. She instituted a rule that for every day missed, we make up 2 days. If we miss 3 days, we make up the whole 2 weeks. She doesn't care if someone in your immediate family died, if you lost a limb, etc.

I hope you get this figured out and it works out in your favor.
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...what the actual ****
 
Lupin21 said:
Good grief. Not sure why this is a thing. People are weird.
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She's very much against the idea that students have any sort of life/responsibility outside of school. Hell, she wanted to try to fail me for missing the first week of third year to finish out an extremely competitive externship and for missing a junior surgery lab for going to a conference (when classmates missed lab for lesser things). Luckily the actual junior surgery head (so not even the same clinician trying to fail me) agreed that a conference was more important than me monitoring anesthesia for 3 hours.
 
pinkpuppy9 said:
She's very much against the idea that students have any sort of life/responsibility outside of school. Hell, she wanted to try to fail me for missing the first week of third year to finish out an extremely competitive externship and for missing a junior surgery lab for going to a conference (when classmates missed lab for lesser things). Luckily the actual junior surgery head (so not even the same clinician trying to fail me) agreed that a conference was more important than me monitoring anesthesia for 3 hours.
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I always wonder if someone was hard on them during some point in their life and they think this is the only way to establish "grit" so to speak.
 
pinkpuppy9 said:
We have a clinician who's super hard on us about stuff like this. She instituted a rule that for every day missed, we make up 2 days. If we miss 3 days, we make up the whole 2 weeks. She doesn't care if someone in your immediate family died, if you lost a limb, etc.

I hope you get this figured out and it works out in your favor.
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That's ridiculous. Like, there's no way I would have been functional last September had I been on clinics. I would have had no problem making up every day I had missed, but there was no way I would have made up double the days of clinics after being gone for 2.5 weeks (including weekends).
 
batsenecal said:
That's ridiculous. Like, there's no way I would have been functional last September had I been on clinics. I would have had no problem making up every day I had missed, but there was no way I would have made up double the days of clinics after being gone for 2.5 weeks (including weekends).
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You would just make up the entire block you missed during an off block or after clinics are said and done (which is crappy too...).

It really depends on if this particular clinician hears about it though (somehow she's got some authority in the game). When my dog dropped dead in the middle of the cardio room, ophtho gave me the next day off so I could pull my **** together and didn't make me use a personal day for it.
 
pinkpuppy9 said:
You would just make up the entire block you missed during an off block or after clinics are said and done (which is crappy too...)
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That makes total sense to me. Like, fair is fair. But the concept of making up 2 days for every day you miss is a little insane.
 
Skimble said:
I made up the missed day of my rotation today, so that is done and over with, and I've officially completed all of my competencies and had them accepted! :soexcited: So nice to know I don't have to worry about submitting those anymore.
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Ours are currently a PITA due e-value being a well, PITA. I hate this crap.
 
twelvetigers said:
I hope it feels a bit like sweet, sweet victory.

I popped a double middle fingers at the building on my last day. I get the feeling you enjoyed yourself more. Maybe an endearing pat in the doorway?

(Meh)
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Unceremonious really. I walked out like always and used the dumpster for cleaning out my car. 🙂
 
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johnnaboo said:
I’m with you there. Large animals are groooooooss (to me).
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I came home and tossed all of the clothes I was wearing into the washer because I was covered in horse pee after restraining a foal. I also had a super sweet goat kid patient that I will miss.
 
I can say working 8-8 has made my feet hurt by the end of the day. BUT, I am enjoying myself immensely and am quite thrilled that in a couple weeks I get to be the one responsible again, be it good or bad. I hope I can keep up my client education skills from becoming boring. If I can turn at least one outta five to preventative medicine, I'll be over the moon. haha
 
nyanko said:
Your signature...looks like you saved the coolest rotation for last.... 😍

I feel bad for the students on with us right now. It's their last rotation too. And it's insane.
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The sky is absolutely FALLING on the neuro rotation right now. I had no idea you guys could even have like 20 inpatients at a time 😵
 
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