Lol yes that too! We have most of our nerves in our Neuro block (which is next
) but we just went over some major ones for the innervation of muscles and things so we still have to know that for this block.
One of our professors was like if you can do it or have time great! If not don't worry. Our curriculum is all about what works best for you, which I freaking LOVE. Except for one professor who refuses to record his lectures (I'm not grumpy... much)
I really enjoy dissecting LA nerves and vessels. Something about the carotid sheath being bigger than my thumb just brings me peace.
if it was sabotage, it was a terrible idea. Because they’re not going to not test us on it. It just made it exponentially harder to do so
Our dogs were never used. 🙁 so sad!!!
That's really cool! My group's dog was pregnant and also had a weird hole in her side, and her kidneys looked really weird, so we made up a detailed backstory about what had happened to her. It would have been nice to know her real story!
Noooo, that's so sad! But I do understand there was a lot of time and money put into it.
It was always fun when they dug out horse legs or fresh dogs that were a bloody mess and tagged what was essentially hamburger meat and asked you what it was. I think it's dinner, before it meets the grinder. What more do you want from me?!
Meanwhile every time a professor would come over we would try to convince them that our dog was the best thing in the lab and should be tagged for everything. 😛
It was always fun when they dug out horse legs or fresh dogs that were a bloody mess and tagged what was essentially hamburger meat and asked you what it was. I think it's dinner, before it meets the grinder. What more do you want from me?!
I hated those questions. I'm super handsy and half the time would only read the giant DO NOT TOUCH sign after I was already wrist deep in the specimen
All our dogs are euthanized for medical reasons at the VMTH so that's nice but we definitely don't have any history on them I think due to confidentiality.
Lol, I think the only times we WERE allowed to touch specimens were bone questions. Apparently there were problems in the past with people either moving pins, or destroying the structure in question (whether accidentally or on purpose, it's hard to say...).I hated those questions. I'm super handsy and half the time would only read the giant DO NOT TOUCH sign after I was already wrist deep in the specimen
But you are vet students and therefore affiliated with the hospital...?
I hated those questions. I'm super handsy and half the time would only read the giant DO NOT TOUCH sign after I was already wrist deep in the specimen
For us, we’re not allowed to touch unless they specifically say “YOU CAN TOUCH”. Which is typically like a bone or something they wanted us to ID and it’s hard for most people to ID which ulna it is without picking it up and putting it on your body for reference.
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Oh yeah, I’m not upset with our do not touch protocol. Especially since it’s timed and there was only like 40 seconds per question and then they move on.
Apparently this semester we’re not doing it rotating practical style... from what I’ve heard, they’re going to have it set up amd you have 2 hours to peruse through the stations however you want with multiple people per station. I fear that’s going to be a nightmare with academic integrity, though.
Woah, they had a set time for you guys per station?!ham hands
Oh yeah, I’m not upset with our do not touch protocol. Especially since it’s timed and there was only like 40 seconds per question and then they move on.
Apparently this semester we’re not doing it rotating practical style... from what I’ve heard, they’re going to have it set up amd you have 2 hours to peruse through the stations however you want with multiple people per station. I fear that’s going to be a nightmare with academic integrity, though.
see my luck is that I would miss a station or one would always be overcrowded when I was trying to get there.
imo it keeps it fail and ordered. I’ve done a lot of practicals and it’s been like that since HS and it’s the same idea hahahahaha so it doesn’t stress me out too much. Ours is half the class too, but still... geesh
It only makes me grumpy when it's something so fragile that it is going to get disrupted by touching it, and therefore has the huge "do not touch" sign. And even then, people usually only touch by mistake, and it's common courtesy to tell one of the proctors so they can check it.
Fair. I actually asked our instructors at one point towards the beginning of the year if all "do not touch" signs actually meant "do not touch," and they said "nope. It basically just means 'touch carefully and don't mess it up,' but it's easier to just write 'do not touch'. But it's ok to follow nerves, as long as the pins don't get moved". So in our case it's accepted to do so. I'm not generally a rule breaker so I would probably get grumpy if it was actually against the rules.
We had a group this semester whose dog had such extensive cancer metastases in the abdomen that the instructors had to grab them a spare cadaver to work on instead. Occasionally you do find some interesting pathology on the dogs, although anything with significant enough pathology is usually rejected as an embalming cadaver by our anatomy staff because they know it might interfere with the embalming process. But I've seen a fair share of megaesophagus, foreign bodies in the stomach (one group found a toy alligator in their dog's stomach this year), and the occasional splenic or lung tumors.
This is how our exams were run. We could go between the lab and the cubes (you could work on the written portion of the exam in either place, I preferred working on the written in the cubes though) and every station was a free for all instead of being timed. It worked out fine - there were, of course, stations that were hard and had people crammed around them but I usually skipped those and came back to them when they were less busy. From an academic integrity standpoint I don't think we had many issues with it, our professors asked us to keep our papers folded over when we weren't writing down answers and we had a good number of anatomy faculty hanging around in each space to double check pins were in the right place and they would announce to everyone (and write it on a whiteboard in the cubes) if they had to fix anything. I think most people are aware of the very severe consequences of cheating here and were too focused on their own work to put in the effort to follow people around and copy off them.
I don't think I could live without touching almost everything
. There's a reason that I missed the DO NOT TOUCH signs until it was too late half the time and then had to hang my head in shame and slowly back away from the specimen 😛
Only people who talk during our exams are the proctors
Ayyyyyyyy
