Class of 2022...how you doin'?

[FrostySparrow]

You’re not alone there. I had a bunch of blood tests run because I, too, have been sleeping excessively since lockdown (10+ hours a night if I don’t set an alarm). I’m at the point where I’m seeing a sleep specialist now.

Currently my sleep issues are more of an annoyance than anything. But I did a one week rotation over winter break in the hospital and hoooo boy, all I did when I came home was eat, shower, and then go to bed.

One thing my sleep doctor said is that COVID may have unmasked people’s sleep disorders because they didn’t have constant interaction and stimulation of day-to-day life. You can work through tiredness if you are up and moving a bit. But we’ve all been sitting all day doing nothing, which can reveal some underlying fatigue.

I hope you get some

hope you both find some answers!!

I was diagnosed with narcolepsy during vet school. Can relate with wanting to sleep more than anything

Thank you, both of you! The underlying fatigue comment makes so much sense, my doc thinks part of it is my MDD and anxiety weren’t being as well managed as they could’ve been (probably masked for reasons your doc mentioned). So we are hitting that route first before sleeping tests!

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[MOOSEygoosey]

I have vetprep because I'm the rep😅 but overall I've heard they're pretty much the same and it doesnt matter. I havent heard about the vin prep course. I know some of us were talking on the 2021 thread about prep if you wanna go read there for more stuffs

I'm just doing some questions everyday because theres ALOT to do to get to the 80% completion

Did you already get vetprep?! Or just the daily question thingy...**** should I have a navle thing already?

 

[jaboo]

Did you already get vetprep?! Or just the daily question thingy...**** should I have a navle thing already?

Dude no, don’t be like our classmates

 

[vetmedhead]

Did you already get vetprep?! Or just the daily question thingy...**** should I have a navle thing already?

omg absolutely NOT

 

[kaydubs]

Thank you, both of you! The underlying fatigue comment makes so much sense, my doc thinks part of it is my MDD and anxiety weren’t being as well managed as they could’ve been (probably masked for reasons your doc mentioned). So we are hitting that route first before sleeping tests!

I can relate. Hope you get some relief & get things squared away. Always here if you need to talk.

 

[MixedAnimals77]

Did you already get vetprep?! Or just the daily question thingy...**** should I have a navle thing already?

I'm the rep for vetprep so get access to premium for a ridiculously long time as my payment. So please dont sweat it😁

 

[SkiOtter]

Did you already get vetprep?! Or just the daily question thingy...**** should I have a navle thing already?

KEEP READING. DON’T WORRY ABOUT THIS TIL AT LEAST MAY

 

[Amanasoul]

That moment when you're overwhelmed so you list out all your quizzes and assignments for the next 16 weeks and realize there are over 200 of them (not including exams).

I shouldn't do this to myself. I make poor decisions like this frequently.

 

[DRider13]

That moment when you're overwhelmed so you list out all your quizzes and assignments for the next 16 weeks and realize there are over 200 of them (not including exams).

I shouldn't do this to myself. I make poor decisions like this frequently.

Oh god. How is this even possible. If I had that many, I would set aside a jolly rancher or starburst as a reward for every one I completed.

 

[Amanasoul]

Oh god. How is this even possible. If I had that many, I would set aside a jolly rancher or starburst as a reward for every one I completed.

I have 14 classes this semester, that's how🤣. My least favorite is week 3, where I have 6 quizzes/assignments due on one day.

Ya know, I might just do the jolly rancher thing. But maybe with chocolate instead 😅

 

[TheGirlWithTheFernTattoo]

Well I bought VetPrep today since the promo was on and I need to buy it at some point before it ends.

Thanks to being Canadian, it cost me just under $500 due to the exchange rate.

Can't wait to dump another $1000 on NAVLE in the next little bit.

Oh wait I looked at it will actually be close to $1200 for the NAVLE.

 

[DRider13]

I had the friendliest cow in palp lab today. She even liked head scratches. I would call that a successful day, even though I couldn't find a dang thing with my arm up her rectum.

 

[battie]

even though I couldn't find a dang thing with my arm up her rectum

Dude. Rectal palpation is magic. I don't feel anything.

 

[vetmedhead]

Dude. Rectal palpation is magic. I don't feel anything.

I've found that if you can learn what one specific things feels like then all the rest comes surprisingly faster. I know once someone taught me the pelvic brim in cows and where the cervix hung out on it then I suddenly could identify almost everything save for **** I couldn't reach within a couple of cows.

Similarly learning what the urethra felt like in male dogs somehow made a difference

 

[battie]

I've found that if you can learn what one specific things feels like then all the rest comes surprisingly faster. I know once someone taught me the pelvic brim in cows and where the cervix hung out on it then I suddenly could identify almost everything save for **** I couldn't reach within a couple of cows.

Similarly learning what the urethra felt like in male dogs somehow made a difference

I'll keep this in my back pocket for equine! Thankfully, I don't have to worry about bovine patients any longer. Lol

 

[vetmedhead]

I'll keep this in my back pocket for equine! Thankfully, I don't have to worry about bovine patients any longer. Lol

Oh god horses scare me, I've never shoved an arm up their butts lol. Everyone made me so afraid of ripping their colon in half by being too forceful

 

[vetmedhead]

I'll keep this in my back pocket for equine! Thankfully, I don't have to worry about bovine patients any longer. Lol

Although I will say with cows too it really helped to do kind of an almost full circle sweep of the pelvic brim and just mentally think through how things sit in relation to it. Also sometimes helped to have my other arm in roughly the same spot on the outside for reference to myself

 

[WildZoo]

Oh god horses scare me, I've never shoved an arm up their butts lol. Everyone made me so afraid of ripping their colon in half by being too forceful

I guess I was never that scared because my hands and arms are so small but they didn't let students palpate client owned horses very often anyway, since there were usually at least 2 other people who NEEDED to palpate (clinician and resident)

 

[battie]

Oh god horses scare me, I've never shoved an arm up their butts lol. Everyone made me so afraid of ripping their colon in half by being too forceful

Required during a third year lab. Our therio clinician is very intent on people palpating.

 

[vetmedhead]

Required during a third year lab. Our therio clinician is very intent on people palpating.

They taught us vaginal exams and things along those lines in horses, and we were definitely required to do cows, but you were only required to palpate horses if you pursued specific horse electives. I'm sure part of it is limited number of teaching animals. I'm also not sure how excited they'd be to have all of us palpate lots of horses at the repro lab because even if they are owned by the university they are generally surrogate mares for super expensive fetuses so not ideal for something to happen to in a teaching accident

 

[MixedAnimals77]

I feel like I'm getting better at rectal palpation. We did an equine palpation lab last semester and I could ID everything the clinician said I should be able to except the kidney was too far for my little arms. Bovine palpation I still struggle with. I can ID the cervix 9/10 but palpating the ovaries and such not so great at-hoping to get better with therio labs this semester and 4th year rotations.

 

[battie]

They taught us vaginal exams and things along those lines in horses, and we were definitely required to do cows, but you were only required to palpate horses if you pursued specific horse electives. I'm sure part of it is limited number of teaching animals. I'm also not sure how excited they'd be to have all of us palpate lots of horses at the repro lab because even if they are owned by the university they are generally surrogate mares for super expensive fetuses so not ideal for something to happen to in a teaching accident

Thankfully for the mares, our therio labs were divided up into small groups over a few weeks. Eventually, all of us palpated the mares. Just bless it was fall and not winter.

All three of the dairy cows I palpated kicked me. -_-

 

[SkiOtter]

Required during a third year lab. Our therio clinician is very intent on people palpating.

They got rid of palpation labs after your year and not just because of covid. Someone is v upset about it and let it be known.

 

[battie]

They got rid of palpation labs after your year and not just because of covid. Someone is v upset about it and let it be known.

Well. I would say that's unfortunate. But......

 

[MixedAnimals77]

We have our first exam Monday. pls send motivation

 

[Amanasoul]

We're finally submitting block requests. Which is exciting. And daunting. Like, I'm supposed to be in clinics in six months...wow.

There is one fairly competitive block at my school that has to be put together and finalized before the rest of the blocks. I'm having a mini-celebration because I've been wanting to get into this block since I got into vet school and I somehow got it

We have our first exam Monday. pls send motivation

Is virtual encouragement good? I can do that.

But yeah, we have two exams in less than a week and I am not prepared.

 

[SkiOtter]

Well. I would say that's unfortunate. But......

Yeah I’m not terribly sad.

 

[FrostySparrow]

I'm a month away from finals and my motivation is already a bit **too** low for what it should be

 

[MOOSEygoosey]

First day of classes done. When is this over???

 

[SkiOtter]

First day of classes done. When is this over???

Same same

 

[Amanasoul]

First day of classes done. When is this over???

I'm three weeks in and still asking myself the same question

 

[MixedAnimals77]

First day of classes done. When is this over???

The level of I dont want to right before the first exam was too damn high😂

 

[Amanasoul]

The level of I dont want to right before the first exam was too damn high😂

Ugh that's literally me right now. I have to be able to spell these 40 optho pharm drugs, know the concentrations, MOAs, and indications by tomorrow...and I've gotten through like three of them so far. Send help

(spelling counts but the prof spelled some of them wrong. what is this madness??)

 

[SkiOtter]

spelling counts but the prof spelled some of them wrong. what is this madness??

Absolutely ridiculous. How do professors expect us to spell things if they can’t even

 

[Amanasoul]

Absolutely ridiculous. How do professors expect us to spell things if they can’t even

At this point, it's more the norm than the exception so I've just accepted it now.

 

[FrostySparrow]

I had to spell "erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae" correctly for a path quiz, I'm 99% sure I remember putting "erysilothrix rhusiopancake." It's a great story to tell now, not sure if my prof found it funny when grading the quizzes but

 

[finnickthedog]

I had to spell "erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae" correctly for a path quiz, I'm 99% sure I remember putting "erysilothrix rhusiopancake." It's a great story to tell now, not sure if my prof found it funny when grading the quizzes but

I wish I could remember the question but back in undergrad histo there was an exam where it was like "name the two types of XYZ"

After grading the exam he tells us that we all got one of them right and our answers for the second were... creative.

 

[vetmedhead]

I always find the "spell this correctly!!!!11j11!!" questions funny because most of the time spelling that right is completely irrelevant to knowing what it is and looking up things about treating it (just copy paste correct spelling in your records like the rest of us lol)

I get it for things that are spelled very similarly but are very different and important to not mix up, but there aren't many of those and most of the ones I can think of are drug names. tbh even if you do mix things up (not drugs) most of the time it's understandable from the context of the rest of the record

I always found the spelling stuff unfair - I swear I have met 3x as many dyslexics in the veterinarian/veterinary student population as I have in the world at large and it doesn't compromise your intellectual or clinical capabilities at all

 

[FrostySparrow]

I always find the "spell this correctly!!!!11j11!!" questions funny because most of the time spelling that right is completely irrelevant to knowing what it is and looking up things about treating it (just copy paste correct spelling in your records like the rest of us lol)

I get it for things that are spelled very similarly but are very different and important to not mix up, but there aren't many of those and most of the ones I can think of are drug names. tbh even if you do mix things up (not drugs) most of the time it's understandable from the context of the rest of the record

I always found the spelling stuff unfair - I swear I have met 3x as many dyslexics in the veterinarian/veterinary student population as I have in the world at large and it doesn't compromise your intellectual or clinical capabilities at all

This is exactly what some of my other profs have said in regards to spelling things correctly. As long as it's close enough for them to understand what we were trying to spell, then it's fine. Like you said, you can always google it for correct spelling for records.

 

[CoffeeQuestionMark]

I always find the "spell this correctly!!!!11j11!!" questions funny because most of the time spelling that right is completely irrelevant to knowing what it is and looking up things about treating it (just copy paste correct spelling in your records like the rest of us lol)

I get it for things that are spelled very similarly but are very different and important to not mix up, but there aren't many of those and most of the ones I can think of are drug names. tbh even if you do mix things up (not drugs) most of the time it's understandable from the context of the rest of the record

I always found the spelling stuff unfair - I swear I have met 3x as many dyslexics in the veterinarian/veterinary student population as I have in the world at large and it doesn't compromise your intellectual or clinical capabilities at all

I think spelling is important for a few things such as ilium vs ileum or mydriasis vs myiasis but not for much more

That said, I'm a very particular person and won't stand for my own misspellings

 

[SkiOtter]

This is exactly what some of my other profs have said in regards to spelling things correctly. As long as it's close enough for them to understand what we were trying to spell, then it's fine. Like you said, you can always google it for correct spelling for records.

I love the ones that are like this

 

[MixedAnimals77]

Got our 4th year schedules today. Overall it's fine but hoping to move things around because right now my vacation times are very terribly placed very close together.

 

[FrostySparrow]

Got our 4th year schedules today. Overall it's fine but hoping to move things around because right now my vacation times are very terribly placed very close together.

One of my friends doesn't have vacation blocks until 2022 and it seems just mildly inconvenient lol

 

[MixedAnimals77]

One of my friends doesn't have vacation blocks until 2022 and it seems just mildly inconvenient lol

yeah um one friend has all of her vacation in 2021. one person has all of theirs in like the first 3 mo of 2021. All but 2 blocks of mine are in a span of basically 3mo so I have 7 weeks of vacation and only 4 rotations-seems a bit lopsided

 

[finnickthedog]

yeah um one friend has all of her vacation in 2021. one person has all of theirs in like the first 3 mo of 2021. All but 2 blocks of mine are in a span of basically 3mo so I have 7 weeks of vacation and only 4 rotations-seems a bit lopsided

How does scheduling work at your school? Do you get to block off time for vacation or are you just stuck with whatever they throw at you (pending requests for changes)?

 

[JaynaAli]

When I was on clinics we got one three week rotation as vacation all year. That was it. I know other schools have different setups and shorter rotations and stuff but the idea that people have multiple vacation blocks seems so crazy to me since it was not how it was set up at my school.

 

[Coopah]

When I was on clinics we got one three week rotation as vacation all year. That was it. I know other schools have different setups and shorter rotations and stuff but the idea that people have multiple vacation blocks seems so crazy to me since it was not how it was set up at my school.

We had two, two week blocks. One block was optional.

 

[battie]

We have 4 two-week blocks for vacation. I actively tried to schedule those and my off campus electives (8 two-week blocks) as evenly spread out as possible. Granted, COVID ruined that for the most part. But my original schedule was dang near perfect for me being in Illinois a max of 3 months at a time.

 

[WildZoo]

We had two, two week blocks. One block was optional.

Same

 

[WildZoo]

Though probs different now since starting with c/o 2022 they're in clinics 3 months longer