Class of 2021 . . . how ya doin?

[cdo96]

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It is SO nice outside and after back to back exams yesterday and today, I am taking the night off from studying. The screen door is open and my cats are loving the fresh air.

My exam got cancelled/ class was cancelled after 2pm due to this freak ice storm!

 

[Lupin21]

My exam got cancelled/ class was cancelled after 2pm due to this freak ice storm!

haha! I was already in surgery, so no afternoon off. But I wouldn't want to have made up this day during finals anyway. Nope Nope Nope

 

[cdo96]

haha! I was already in surgery, so no afternoon off. But I wouldn't want to have made up this day during finals anyway. Nope Nope Nope

True. We’re having to do a test on the same day as our pathology test on Friday… Which kind of stinks but I’m OK with it

 

[Lupin21]

True. We’re having to do a test on the same day as our pathology test on Friday… Which kind of stinks but I’m OK with it

We had our SA anatomy lab final cancelled my year 1 due to snow. They ended up using an average of our previous scores. No idea if I would have done better for a final, but not sad about that one at all. haha

 

[cdo96]

We had our SA anatomy lab final cancelled my year 1 due to snow. They ended up using an average of our previous scores. No idea if I would have done better for a final, but not sad about that one at all. haha

Oh dang! If it was an average I would’ve done well lol. I do not like Head Anatomy.

LA Anatomy is getting on my list of classes that I would rather do X than take that exam. Sigh. Oh well. Stinks having the entire class worth 3 exams and even if you pass the first exam you can’t get an A for the semester

 

[WhtsThFrequency]

I'm helping out with the 2021 anatomy labs since they are slammed for help and jeebus.....I'm having to review a lot so I can be even moderately functional as a teaching assistant. It's been over 10 years since I took anatomy proper, and in pathology if nothing goes wrong with a structure we don't tend to remember it.

 

[Lupin21]

Oh dang! If it was an average I would’ve done well lol. I do not like Head Anatomy.

LA Anatomy is getting on my list of classes that I would rather do X than take that exam. Sigh. Oh well. Stinks having the entire class worth 3 exams and even if you pass the first exam you can’t get an A for the semester

A good number of classes will be three, maybe four exams total points after first year, so might as well get used to that. I actually prefer it that way. Quizzes just annoy me. lol

 

[Lupin21]

I'm helping out with the 2021 anatomy labs since they are slammed for help and jeebus.....I'm having to review a lot so I can be even moderately functional as a teaching assistant. It's been over 10 years since I took anatomy proper, and in pathology if nothing goes wrong with a structure we don't tend to remember it.

I TA'd anatomy, and was only a year out and still had to review every day. I was glad for the extra practice for sure since I don't think anyone really gets it first go round.

 

[love2hunt]

I'm helping out with the 2021 anatomy labs since they are slammed for help and jeebus.....I'm having to review a lot so I can be even moderately functional as a teaching assistant. It's been over 10 years since I took anatomy proper, and in pathology if nothing goes wrong with a structure we don't tend to remember it.

We still frequently stump the older professors, at least for a few minutes, and they’re freakin anatomists! Always makes us feel better when even they when they struggle with a part.

 

[Lupin21]

We still frequently stump the older professors, at least for a few minutes, and they’re freakin anatomists! Always makes us feel better when even they when they struggle with a part.

Indeed! We always huddled and grabbed the book. Pasquini usually. haha

 

[wallydo]

I'm helping out with the 2021 anatomy labs since they are slammed for help and jeebus.....I'm having to review a lot so I can be even moderately functional as a teaching assistant. It's been over 10 years since I took anatomy proper, and in pathology if nothing goes wrong with a structure we don't tend to remember it.

I can't remember/not sure if I've known where you are but I would be stoked if you were one of our TA's!

 

[SkiOtter]

I can't remember/not sure if I've known where you are but I would be stoked if you were one of our TA's!

I think she’s VAMD?

 

[wallydo]

I think she’s VAMD?

Basically, everyone on SDN is like a character in a book and I just make up what they look like/where they live in my head. Except, like, you and Finn.

 

[SkiOtter]

Basically, everyone on SDN is like a character in a book and I just make up what they look like/where they live in my head. Except, like, you and Finn.

WOO
But what about simba and teep

 

[WhtsThFrequency]

I think she’s VAMD?

Yessir. I'm doing it on top finishing up the PhD and they are all afternoon several times a week (when I can make it) plus prepping beforehand, so it's definitely a bit of a timesink.....but I miss teaching so it's fun, and I love hanging out with the same anatomists who taught me years ago. Histology and immunology labs I can do with my eyes closed and one hand on a coffee cup. Anatomy is whoooooole 'nother ball game. Thankfully, the first year class is super chill.

 

[battie]

It's rained, like 7 inches, since Sunday night. I don't remember seeing 7 inches of rain the entire 5 years I lived in Nebraska....

 

[love2hunt]

Thankfully, the first year class is super chill.

We are the chillest. 😎

Speaking of anatomy at Va-Md, hey @batsenecal, did you get our old anatomy professor that started this semester? I’m pretty sure she’s at Illinois now...

 

[battie]

We are the chillest. 😎

Speaking of anatomy at Va-Md, hey @batsenecal, did you get our old anatomy professor that started this semester? I’m pretty sure she’s at Illinois now...

Uhhh, maybe? Not sure, to be honest, cause I don't really go to class...... lol. We do have a new professor starting March 12th (since we do 8 week quarters). But anatomy is crazy town right meow.

@SportPonies is a good student and goes to class. So she might know if it was mentioned if our new prof came from VAMD.

 

[SportPonies]

Uhhh, maybe? Not sure, to be honest, cause I don't really go to class...... lol. We do have a new professor starting March 12th (since we do 8 week quarters). But anatomy is crazy town right meow.

@SportPonies is a good student and goes to class. So she might know if it was mentioned if our new prof came from VAMD.

@love2hunt
I do believe that's her!

 

[vetmedhead]

All I remember is Erysipelas is the disease that automatically installs bling onto pigs

Update: this was... not enough things to know. Lol

 

[cdo96]

Having essentially four huge tests today (two instructor pathology exam, a brutal parasit written exam, and a parasit lab exam) coupled with having two huge tests next week and a quiz is starting to feel like this:

My professors vs me.

 

[cdo96]

Having essentially four huge tests today (two instructor pathology exam, a brutal parasit written exam, and a parasit lab exam) coupled with having two huge tests next week and a quiz is starting to feel like this:

My professors vs me.

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Also let’s throw the fact that I can’t get in touch with the other insurance company after trying for days, and since they haven’t accepted blame yet, the body shop is charging me/ my insurance $4200 that we may or may not get back.

I’m having a bad couple of weeks. 😢

 

[battie]

I love you, '21 fam <3

 

[cdo96]

I love you, '21 fam <3

Awww! We love you too, bats!

 

[vetmedhead]

I have two tests this week and what I know so far is the names of the classes I have tests in

turns out the above was sufficient for my virology test, though. Maybe?

 

[cdo96]

I got to do a pretty cool fear free cat handling wet lab today! It’s really interesting- I’d always been trained to scruff first and essentially apply as much force as necessary, but it’s really cool to learn new methods that don’t involve scruffing at all. I haven’t been much of a kitty person, but I like learning new ways to help them!

 

[flameshock]

All I remember is Erysipelas is the disease that automatically installs bling onto pigs

That’s amazing

 

[vetmedhead]

I got to do a pretty cool fear free cat handling wet lab today! It’s really interesting- I’d always been trained to scruff first and essentially apply as much force as necessary, but it’s really cool to learn new methods that don’t involve scruffing at all. I haven’t been much of a kitty person, but I like learning new ways to help them!

I love the kitty kitty meow meows! I think oftentimes people's first instinct is to manhandle them because they don't like/aren't familiar with cats and/or know that a poorly controlled cat can wreak a lot of havoc (and thusly try to control the cat at all costs). I don't really think the scruff first ask questions later approach is the most thoughtful one, though. Most cats I've worked with do amazingly well with a C hold (or a modified version of it where you get a hold on their zygomatic arches rather than under their jaw - I don't know why, but many cats I've worked with seem to prefer this over a regular C hold and as a bonus you get very good control of their head with very little effort and without complaints from the kitty) and very light restraint. The ones who "need" the death grip scruff to even remotely be handle-able are cats that really shouldn't be handled by force alone anyway (and where chemical restraint becomes important both for the welfare of the patient and the safety of the staff).

I think a being able to be creative with towels and having a good working knowledge of making kitty burritos, kitty tacos, and holding kitties like footballs takes you a long way with most kitty kitty meow meows.

Like most things in life, if you have to force it to make it work, then it's probably a bad idea and you're going to break something.

 

[cdo96]

I love the kitty kitty meow meows! I think oftentimes people's first instinct is to manhandle them because they don't like/aren't familiar with cats and/or know that a poorly controlled cat can wreak a lot of havoc (and thusly try to control the cat at all costs). I don't really think the scruff first ask questions later approach is the most thoughtful one, though. Most cats I've worked with do amazingly well with a C hold (or a modified version of it where you get a hold on their zygomatic arches rather than under their jaw - I don't know why, but many cats I've worked with seem to prefer this over a regular C hold and as a bonus you get very good control of their head with very little effort and without complaints from the kitty) and very light restraint. The ones who "need" the death grip scruff to even remotely be handle-able are cats that really shouldn't be handled by force alone anyway (and where chemical restraint becomes important both for the welfare of the patient and the safety of the staff).

I think a being able to be creative with towels and having a good working knowledge of making kitty burritos, kitty tacos, and holding kitties like footballs takes you a long way with most kitty kitty meow meows.

Like most things in life, if you have to force it to make it work, then it's probably a bad idea and you're going to break something.

We were doing kitty burritos! It’s really cool to see that you can do things differently and really help the processes! Like you can still wrap the kitty in a burrito and still have a leg to do blood draws on! I’ve always been wary of the kitty kitty meow meows in the clinic because of the scruff first method tends to produce angry, hissing kitties, so I’m interested to see how it works in a clinical aspect!

 

[Caiter92]

We were doing kitty burritos! It’s really cool to see that you can do things differently and really help the processes! Like you can still wrap the kitty in a burrito and still have a leg to do blood draws on! I’ve always been wary of the kitty kitty meow meows in the clinic because of the scruff first method tends to produce angry, hissing kitties, so I’m interested to see how it works in a clinical aspect!

Learning more cat friendly handling techniques is good for everyone. Less stress out kitty=safer and easy to handle, and way faster to get blood, ect. Definitely use all the opportunities you can to learn them!

 

[vetmedhead]

Learning more cat friendly handling techniques is good for everyone. Less stress out kitty=safer and easy to handle, and way faster to get blood, ect. Definitely use all the opportunities you can to learn them!

As a bonus, once you become more comfortable handling cats you start to get a much better intuition about their body language, normal levels of arousal, muscle tone, etc. and can become much better at catching subtle clinical signs that may go unnoticed by someone with a lower level of comfort or less experience handling relaxed cats.

My coworker and I can pick out even a mildly painful cat from across the room when easily five other staff members never noticed anything was wrong. We can handle cats notorious for being "evil" or impossible to handle because we go slow with them and try to not stress them out. Our physical exams can be more informative because the cat isn't tensed up or stressed out from being held. etc etc etc

I was always taught to go slow to go fast, and if the patient fights you don't fight back - you try something different. And, of course, the ever important cardinal rule - you can stop at any time.

 

[love2hunt]

Uhhh, maybe? Not sure, to be honest, cause I don't really go to class...... lol. We do have a new professor starting March 12th (since we do 8 week quarters). But anatomy is crazy town right meow.

@SportPonies is a good student and goes to class. So she might know if it was mentioned if our new prof came from VAMD.

If you think your anatomy is crazy town, we only have one anatomist for both the first and second years. The other left to go to your school (which I didn't mind, I prefer our current anatomist over the one who you now have). They had to pull in 2 of our retired anatomists and @WhtsThFrequency to help us in lab. Needless to say, it's been unorganized at times, but we all appreciate the hard work everyone is putting in.

 

[WhtsThFrequency]

So much crazy town. I volunteered to help and it's half "Yay I get to teach!" and half "Holy bull boogers, what did I get myself into?!" It's been a trip having to re-learn a lot of this stuff on the fly. I'd say I can be helpful on half of the things I'm asked at most - the rest I need to go pull one of the actual anatomists to help (so feel better guys....no one remembers all of this stuff in the long term).

N.B. for vet students - your profs work their butts off. If grades are late, labs are disorganized, lectures changes times....it's not because they don't care. It's because all the crazy behind-the-scenes stuff that the students don't see can be absolutely tear-your-hair-out complicated.

 

[DVMDream]

So much crazy town. I volunteered to help and it's half "Yay I get to teach!" and half "Holy bull boogers, what did I get myself into?!" It's been a trip having to re-learn a lot of this stuff on the fly. I'd say I can be helpful on half of the things I'm asked at most - the rest I need to go pull one of the actual anatomists to help (so feel better guys....no one remembers all of this stuff in the long term).

N.B. for vet students - your profs work their butts off. If grades are late, labs are disorganized, lectures changes times....it's not because they don't care. It's because all the crazy behind-the-scenes stuff that the students don't see can be absolutely tear-your-hair-out complicated.

Remember anatomy long-term??? Definitely not. I was helping during a TPLO post-graduation. We had a vet who wasn't board-certified but had learned TPLO's and that is basically all he did come in to do them. I am scrubbed in to hold and he starts asking me anatomy questions as he is doing the surgery.. umm, dude, that **** got punted out of my brain immediately after boards. I have no interest in orthopedic surgery and I am currently barely awake. Leaves me alone.

 

[battie]

I'm interesred to see what happens with our anatomy. Ours is currently crazy town as well, but for a different reason.

 

[cdo96]

I'm interesred to see what happens with our anatomy. Ours is currently crazy town as well, but for a different reason.

Ours is crazy town too. We got a new professor and so we’ve got some growing pains now. Hopefully it smooths out soon though!

 

[love2hunt]

Ours is crazy town too. We got a new professor and so we’ve got some growing pains now. Hopefully it smooths out soon though!

So basically, every 2021 graduate hired at clinics nationwide is going to be anatomy-confused.

 

[cdo96]

So basically, every 2021 graduate hired at clinics nationwide is going to be anatomy-confused.

Oh we won’t be Anatomy confused, I came prepared.

Spoiler: Anatomy of the Dog

Spoiler: Anatomy of the Cow

(will be continued since SDN only allows me to upload 5 pictures at one time)

 

[cdo96]

Continued...

Spoiler: Anatomy of the Cat

Spoiler: Anatomy of the Horse

Spoiler: Comparative Anatomy of the Horse

 

[vetmedhead]

 

[vetmedhead]

Basic horse anatomy:

One large intestine & four problematic legs...

 

[SkiOtter]

 

[Emily Faith]

Ours is crazy town too. We got a new professor and so we’ve got some growing pains now. Hopefully it smooths out soon though!

Not looking forward to all this extra crazy town next week. 11-12 on a cadaver should be interesting...

 

[vetmedhead]

Have any of you seen those diagrams of where to pet an animal?

Spoiler: The last one is my favorite

 

[SkiOtter]

Have any of you seen those diagrams of where to pet an animal?

Spoiler: The last one is my favorite

HAHAHAHAHAHA
Almost spit my lemonade out

 

[cdo96]

Lolololol I actually saved this one as well for horse anatomy, but had to sacrifice for the comparative anatomy one. Lolol

Basic horse anatomy:

One large intestine & four problematic legs...

intestines in the brain, sounds about right. Horse colics? Cut open the brain.

Have any of you seen those diagrams of where to pet an animal?

Spoiler: The last one is my favorite

“... maybe”

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Lololol 90% sure I used the elephant on in the Zoo WW game!

 

[flameshock]

So basically, every 2021 graduate hired at clinics nationwide is going to be anatomy-confused.

Could be worse! Here, we’re Anatomy-confused AND histo-hopeless!

 

[Filly Bay]

LINNNDDDDAAAAA

 

[cdo96]

Could be worse! Here, we’re Anatomy-confusedvand histo-hopeless!

Oh I’m 100% Histo-hopeless!!!!

 

[Filly Bay]

Basic horse anatomy:

One large intestine & four problematic legs...

I'm no equine vet but this looks like a serious DH!!!!