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Do any of you guys have classes that switch professors every couple of weeks? We have multiple professors in every class except anatomy, and It's making studying harder for me. The second I find something that works for one professor, we switch to a new one which requires a completely different style.
 
alohacat319 said:
Do any of you guys have classes that switch professors every couple of weeks? We have multiple professors in every class except anatomy, and It's making studying harder for me. The second I find something that works for one professor, we switch to a new one which requires a completely different style.
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That's how phys is for us. We had one prof the first two weeks, then another prof for two weeks, and now we're back to the first. After our next exam, we switch to another for two weeks, and then have one more for the last month of the semester.

I had classes like that in undergrad too, and it's still an adjustment every time.
 
We got our anatomy tests back yesterday. I passed (yay!) but I made a couple of really stupid mistakes (like leaving out an action, etc) on things I definitely new, so I'm a bit annoyed at myself :/ Oh well!

We still don't have phys back, which we had two weeks ago, but that's mostly essay questions so I'm not too surprised. Prof said we should get it back Tuesday. I know I definitely didn't do too hot on the genetics section of that, but most of the class didn't either. Our next test is by the awesome prof who gives us objectives for his units and his test questions are basically them combined or rewritten a bit, so I'm not too worried about making it up.

I have histo Monday and I'm so nervous! It's 2/3 IDing and then some short answer and a few multiple choice. The prof for that class had a review yesterday and is having another Sunday night to answer last minute questions. This is my favorite class and I feel like I know the tissues pretty well, so hopefully it goes okay!
 
alohacat319 said:
Do any of you guys have classes that switch professors every couple of weeks? We have multiple professors in every class except anatomy, and It's making studying harder for me. The second I find something that works for one professor, we switch to a new one which requires a completely different style.
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Yep. We're on our second professor for both anatomy and histo; we're switching to a third professor for histo after our next lab test on Tuesday.
 
SandstormDVM said:
Just some not-serious late night rambling... but out of curiosity, is anyone else not entirely sure what they want to do with their DVM?

It seems like everyone here knows for certain what they want to do (whether or not they actually accomplish it obviously remains to be seen); they are 100% sure that they want to be small animal surgeons, or swine vets, or equine internists, or whatever. And I'm here changing my mind what seems like every other week. I have a lot of interests within the profession and I keep flip-flopping.

I came into school wanting to do industry poultry med because I really enjoyed getting to hang with a poultry (broiler) vet a couple of years ago and it's probably one of the best jobs for new grads in terms of salary and overall lifestyle, though finding externships/experience opportunities outside of school can be a bit difficult. Plus I love the idea of having an instrumental role in helping to provide the public with a cheap, easy-to-access protein source. But I've been speaking with a pathologist at school and participating in Path Club and now I'm quite interested in that, as well. I'm also into the standard small animal GP thing as well as avian med.

Gah. I know that I've still got a couple years to figure things out and even then I'm not limited to doing only one thing for the rest of my career, but still. I feel like nearly everyone I've talked to knows exactly what it is that they are aiming to do as a vet and that I'm behind the curve.
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SandstormDVM said:
Just some not-serious late night rambling... but out of curiosity, is anyone else not entirely sure what they want to do with their DVM?

It seems like everyone here knows for certain what they want to do (whether or not they actually accomplish it obviously remains to be seen); they are 100% sure that they want to be small animal surgeons, or swine vets, or equine internists, or whatever. And I'm here changing my mind what seems like every other week. I have a lot of interests within the profession and I keep flip-flopping.

I came into school wanting to do industry poultry med because I really enjoyed getting to hang with a poultry (broiler) vet a couple of years ago and it's probably one of the best jobs for new grads in terms of salary and overall lifestyle, though finding externships/experience opportunities outside of school can be a bit difficult. Plus I love the idea of having an instrumental role in helping to provide the public with a cheap, easy-to-access protein source. But I've been speaking with a pathologist at school and participating in Path Club and now I'm quite interested in that, as well. I'm also into the standard small animal GP thing as well as avian med.

Gah. I know that I've still got a couple years to figure things out and even then I'm not limited to doing only one thing for the rest of my career, but still. I feel like nearly everyone I've talked to knows exactly what it is that they are aiming to do as a vet and that I'm behind the curve.
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For me I feel like everybody and their mother wants to specialize, is that normal? I too, have no idea what I plan on doing and am keeping an open mind
 
sparkle1231 said:
For me I feel like everybody and their mother wants to specialize, is that normal? I too, have no idea what I plan on doing and am keeping an open mind
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Meh. Some people in vet school have their heart set on something and have for years and other people don't. It doesn't matter. We had a couple that started referring to themselves as if they were already down the specialization route - "Well, as a toxicologist blah blah blah" - which I always thought was incredibly weird, presumptuous, arrogant, misleading, etc.

Don't worry about it. Just keep your head down and keep plugging away and keep making contacts and getting to know folks in the industry.
 
Visiting my family for the weekend, and I've somehow gotten roped into watching my adorable 4 year old niece by myself even though I'm supposed to be studying.

Niece: What are you going to do?
Me: I have to study a little bit.
Niece: Well, I have to eat.

Life's not fair. :laugh:

She grabbed my anatomy notebook and then said she was going to go over all the stuff I did at school. And then she kept looking at my laptop screen and making comments about what she was seeing, so I guess I can't open up the virtual anatomy page and dissection videos to review. I don't want to be held responsible for scarring her for life.
 
alohacat319 said:
Do any of you guys have classes that switch professors every couple of weeks? We have multiple professors in every class except anatomy, and It's making studying harder for me. The second I find something that works for one professor, we switch to a new one which requires a completely different style.
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We have that for physio, advanced anatomy, and physical diagnosis. It hasn't bothered me much but that might just be because my study methods aren't very teaching-style dependent.
 
alohacat319 said:
Do any of you guys have classes that switch professors every couple of weeks? We have multiple professors in every class except anatomy, and It's making studying harder for me. The second I find something that works for one professor, we switch to a new one which requires a completely different style.
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They used to have that here, but the classes before us sent in suggestions to not do that anymore. We do have some classes with co-professors, but it hasn't been a problem so far. I guess it used to be way worse.
 
alohacat319 said:
Do any of you guys have classes that switch professors every couple of weeks? We have multiple professors in every class except anatomy, and It's making studying harder for me. The second I find something that works for one professor, we switch to a new one which requires a completely different style.
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All of our classes have multiple profs to varying extents. It hasn't been a big issue for us so far (at least in my experience) and has been done well I think.
 
Cephal0pod said:
All of our classes have multiple profs to varying extents. It hasn't been a big issue for us so far (at least in my experience) and has been done well I think.
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I like most of them and I think they are great teachers, I'm just struggling with adjusting my studying to each one since they each write their own exam questions which are very different styles and expectations. So it isn't so much that it isn't being done well by them or the school, I just find it harder personally.
 
alohacat319 said:
My physio 1 class has seven different professors....
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Just spent all day working on this... over 10 hours! My brain hurts!

....Sympathetic preganglionic neurons located in lateral horn of T1-L3. Preganglionic fibers synapse with postganglionic neurons located in the peripheral ganglia.....
 
More from my niece:

Her: You have a house? People don't live in houses by themselves! You're not even married!
Me: Yes, I am married. Don't you remember Uncle [husband's name]?
Her: You're not married. That's impossible!

My mother: You can't make too much noise because your aunt has to study.
Her: What's studying?
Me (thinking): ohgod where do I even begin?
 
alohacat319 said:
Do any of you guys have classes that switch professors every couple of weeks? We have multiple professors in every class except anatomy, and It's making studying harder for me. The second I find something that works for one professor, we switch to a new one which requires a completely different style.
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Yeah it's pretty normal (at my school anyway), to have the majority of the classes be taught in a team-teaching manner. I think someone counted and we had something like 23 professors for our 8-week Pharm course?

Keeps you on your toes, that's for sure
 
Ashgirl said:
Yeah it's pretty normal (at my school anyway), to have the majority of the classes be taught in a team-teaching manner. I think someone counted and we had something like 23 professors for our 8-week Pharm course?

Keeps you on your toes, that's for sure
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yarp. Most profs are balancing teaching, research, and clinics. Team effort is the norm. Good times!
 
There are already at least two couples in my class, and I spent part of my Friday night comforting one of my classmates because she got rejected by another guy in my class. I can't handle the drama! 😱
 
Cephal0pod said:
First anatomy exam tomorrow :hungover::wacky:😱
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Good luck! I'm sure you'll do great. :luck: What's it over?

Our second one is on Thursday. We had a pretty high class average on the first one (mid-range B), but apparently this one coming up is considerably harder and it isn't unusual for some students to fail. :scared::barf:
 
WildZoo said:
Oh dear, dating classmates, that always works out sooooooo well
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Now, now, it could work out (says the crazy person who's happily dating a classmate), though I agree that for some people it could involve a lot of drama/go down in flames.
 
Ashgirl said:
Now, now, it could work out (says the crazy person who's happily dating a classmate), though I agree that for some people it could involve a lot of drama/go down in flames.
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What Lyra said - there are always exceptions 😀
 
alohacat319 said:
Officially completely caught up in all my classes except being a bit behind in our anatomy dissection. It's been a long weekend, but it's a win in my book. :soexcited:
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CONGRATS!! That's a huge accomplishment, alohacat!

.... And I thought I was productive. I'm nearly there, I just have a little more work in phys 1 & 2. Just keep swimming, just keep swimming.
 
supershorty said:
My retention rate apparently goes up a lot when I use food as positive reinforcement for correct answers in radiology. I would be really easy to train if I were a dog. So food motivated!!
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Hahahaha. Good old radiology. I can't remember which of the four radiology (including ultrasound) classes I took at UMN had it, but one of them had a m/c question with answers a-h or a-i or something like that? I just wanted to throw my laptop in the air and walk out.
 
I had my first anatomy exam today and I feel like it broke my brain and I am completely unable to focus on anything. Hopefully it gets better tomorrow. I have an irrational fear that theres gonna be a moment when my brain says "data limit has been reached, nothing else new can be learned" lol


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PellsBells93 said:
I have an irrational fear that theres gonna be a moment when my brain says "data limit has been reached, nothing else new can be learned" lol
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See, this actually happens to me, except my brain decides to throw out information/memories to compensate (namely all of first year anatomy....). The other day I also forgot the word that wooden thing with four legs you eat dinner on.. It happens 😛
 
This is my brain right now, prepping for our massive anatomy exam:
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PellsBells93 said:
I had my first anatomy exam today and I feel like it broke my brain and I am completely unable to focus on anything. Hopefully it gets better tomorrow. I have an irrational fear that theres gonna be a moment when my brain says "data limit has been reached, nothing else new can be learned" lol


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You have three options, buy more storage, throw away useless data (like all of anatomy), or build a better algorithm 😉


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I miss muscles. We're on nerves, veins, arteries, and organs now. Everything looks the same :dead:
 
Caiter92 said:
I miss muscles. We're on nerves, veins, arteries, and organs now. Everything looks the same :dead:
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Wow, I guess our class is really weird, then. This next test is over nasal structures (nasal ligaments, the concha, nasopharynx, oropharynx, etc.), esophagus, trachea, muscles of the neck, mouth structures, dentition, visceral organs and their peritoneums, and male and female reproductive systems. Basically all of the structures from mouth to anus, I guess. The cardiovascular system is next, and then we finish with the nervous system.
 
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Nerves are the worst.

Our dog's chest was basically a gigantic hematoma, so everything in there was just covered with mushy blood. Even after removing as much of that as possible, everything that's left is stained and the same color. It's impossible to distinguish a lot of the more minor things, especially nerves. Half the instructors who helped us with the nerves in that section said we have a crappy dog for that part. Yeah, no kidding.

I wish we had exams a little more frequently. Our course is structured so that exam #1 is the whole dog (plus corresponding special parts of the horse and cat), minus the head.
 
SandstormDVM said:
Wow, I guess our class is really weird, then. This next test is over nasal structures, esophagus, trachea, muscles of the neck, mouth structures, dentition, visceral organs, and male and female reproductive tracts. The cardiovascular system is next, and then we finish with the nervous system.
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I think schools just very in general how the do anatomy!

Fall is small animal, and then spring is large animal here. It goes all the muscles+skeleton, then we move through the systems along with veins, arteries, nerves. We do everything but the reproductive system this exam, and then our last exam is nervous and the reproduction system!
 
missdarjeeling said:
Nerves are the worst.

Our dog's chest was basically a gigantic hematoma, so everything in there was just covered with mushy blood. Even after removing as much of that as possible, everything that's left is stained and the same color. It's impossible to distinguish a lot of the more minor things, especially nerves. Half the instructors who helped us with the nerves in that section said we have a crappy dog for that part. Yeah, no kidding.

I wish we had exams a little more frequently. Our course is structured so that exam #1 is the whole dog (plus corresponding special parts of the horse and cat), minus the head.
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This is like us, minus the horse. We only have three cumulative exams (plus developmental anatomy quizzes) the entire semester. So each exam is just so much material.
 
SandstormDVM said:
Good luck! I'm sure you'll do great. :luck: What's it over?

Our second one is on Thursday. We had a pretty high class average on the first one (mid-range B), but apparently this one coming up is considerably harder and it isn't unusual for some students to fail. :scared::barf:
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Thank you! It was over the thoracic limb and thorax - bones, muscles, nerves, vessels, lymphatics, and a partridge in a pear tree probably. Good luck on round 2!

PellsBells93 said:
I had my first anatomy exam today and I feel like it broke my brain and I am completely unable to focus on anything. Hopefully it gets better tomorrow. I have an irrational fear that theres gonna be a moment when my brain says "data limit has been reached, nothing else new can be learned" lol


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I felt much the same way walking out of that exam... I think I passed? Maybe? Hopefully??
 
LetItSnow said:
Hahahaha. Good old radiology. I can't remember which of the four radiology (including ultrasound) classes I took at UMN had it, but one of them had a m/c question with answers a-h or a-i or something like that? I just wanted to throw my laptop in the air and walk out.
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Oh man, can't wait until I get to that. Our first microanatomy exam was like that, and the later answer choices were all along the lines of "a, c, & d" "a & c" "none of the above except A on rainy Tuesdays in April of even-numbered years when Mercury is in retrograde," etc.

Having said that, the radiology portion of our anatomy exam today seemed pretty straightforward to me, so perhaps there is some merit in my gummy bear study method and I should employ it more frequently.
 
Ya'll make me feel so blessed on how our anatomy is structured. We do small animal first semester, large second. First exam was thoracic limb, including muscles, veins, arteries, and nerves. Second exam was pelvic limb and vertebral column, including the muscles, veins, arteries, and nerves. Now we are doing thoracic, abdominal and pelvic cavities for our third exam, and the final will include all of the above plus the head and neck. We have a fantastic teacher too.
 
alohacat319 said:
Ya'll make me feel so blessed on how our anatomy is structured. We do small animal first semester, large second. First exam was thoracic limb, including muscles, veins, arteries, and nerves. Second exam was pelvic limb and vertebral column, including the muscles, veins, arteries, and nerves. Now we are doing thoracic, abdominal and pelvic cavities for our third exam, and the final will include all of the above plus the head and neck. We have a fantastic teacher too.
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That's similar to how ours is structured. I love our anatomy professors 🙂
 
I love how our anatomy is set up. 1st quarter we do thorax and abdomen (all muscles, bones, nerves, etc), and then the harder stuff next quarter!
 
Caiter92 said:
We got our histo exams from Monday back already. I got a 93! We needed a 75 to pass, so it was a super nice confidence boost after doing so bad on anatomy!

Now to just back cell phys back.... it's only been nearly weeks :whistle:
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That's awesome! 😀
 
My mother, sister, 92 yr old grandmother and their 4 cats are evacuating because of hurricane Matthew. It should be interesting. Wish I could be a fly on the wall just in the car ride north....
 
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