Do we need a camera in vet school?

[JSpitz]

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i heard someone mention taking pictures during lab to study. thoughts?

 

[sunshinevet]

cameras are awesome. I took extensive photos each anatomy practical. I cant draw to save my life, and I *don't* see the point in me sitting down and spending ages sketching something that, even if i label, looks nothing like what its meant to be. Photos are real, easy to share among classmates, you can zoom in, you can get lots of different angles, they're just awesome. Excellent anatomy study.

They're also good for farm practicals and animal handling classes etc. They're good for taking photos of xrays and specimens in the anatomy museum. They're great. Get one. Take photos.

 

[NittanyKitty]

Cameras are mainly used here for "fun" pictures like during our hands-on animal time. There must be thousands of photos of our classmates cuddling the kids out in the barn this spring! Here we are NOT allowed to take pictures in the anatomy lab due to concerns of them being used and interpreted by the wrong groups (ie PETA).

 

[sunshinevet]

Our school deals with this by banning us from publishing photos anywhere, of anything we do in vet school. If you are caught publishing photos (facebook etc) there are disiplinary consequences from the school.

 

[StartingoverVet]

Definitely can't publish pictures anywhere. Photographing patient's animals or research or live teaching animals is prohibited.

Other than a few scattered instances (including my own attempt) almost nobody here has used a camera for anything educational.

 

[GellaBella]

I know some people tried using cameras early on but most gave up.

For anatomy lab people found it was just too hard to stay on top of labeling everything we saw that day (maybe that's unique to our whirlwind anatomy class) and if they had to skip an evening of labeling it was almost impossible to catch up again.

I tried taking pictures through my microscope for histology but found it just wasn't worth the time. I could learn more by just looking through my slide set several times in the time it would take me to find the specific cell I was looking for and photograph it.

So I'd personally say it's totally not necessary, but if you think you would really benefit, then go for it.

PS. A good source for anatomy is the CSU dog dissection DVD which is like having pictures taken of the dissection, but to be honest, the thing that really works is just going up to lab every day and looking over everything. I don't think there is really a good substitute to spending quality time in lab outside of reg scheduled lab time

 

[BlacKAT33]

Any pictures that ive labeled for labs have been taken from our learning website. I just copied and pasted all the pictures there into onenote so i can see them all at the same time completely labeled. I had no time to use my own camera

 

[StartingoverVet]

Hey, every time I check SDN there is a post from GellaBella or Blackat33 lately. You 2 need to stop spending so much time here and start studying!

 

[luplodw]

I took videos with my iPhone during anatomy lab. I would video tape someone pointing out all the muscles, bones, ligaments, etc. I stopped doing this because my teachers ended up making their own videos they would send out to the class.

 

[moosenanny]

It probably depends on the school somewhat (at Davis we have so many amazing online dissection videos and virtual microscope sets, that it wouldn't be necessary). Something to keep in mind, too, is that if you weren't planning on buying one anyway, you could probably ask a friend/lab partner who does have one if they would send you any photos they take (the wonders of digital cameras!). If you are thinking of getting one, I have an Olympus Stylus that is AMAZING and I would recommend it to any health professional. It is waterproof and the cleaning instructions are literally to soak it in water for 10 minutes while turning it on and off repeatedly. It isn't the cheapest camera out there, but it is great for dissections, necropsies, etc., because it can get nice and juicy and be fine after a quick rinse in the sink! (I actually threw up on my camera one time - I was in Alaska aerially tracking wolves and let's just say my stomach wasn't totally up to doing tight corkscrews in a two-person plane. It was nice to soak the camera in the sink for a while and not have to worry about the vomit causing any permanent damage.)

 

[Psorophoraferox]

(I actually threw up on my camera one time - I was in Alaska aerially tracking wolves and let's just say my stomach wasn't totally up to doing tight corkscrews in a two-person plane. It was nice to soak the camera in the sink for a while and not have to worry about the vomit causing any permanent damage.)

I sure hope you wrote a review of the camera. That story alone would convince me of a claim to be "rugged" and "waterproof". 😀

 

[BlacKAT33]

Hey, every time I check SDN there is a post from GellaBella or Blackat33 lately. You 2 need to stop spending so much time here and start studying!

🙁 i hate studying!!! lol i'm trying to push thru this last night tho...

moosenanny--this is true. we have lots of videos that professors make for us with everything pointed out or labeled so thats another reason most people never take videos

 

[variegata]

At Wisconsin, we're not allowed to take pictures in anatomy lab. The atlas I got, in addition to the dissector and the cadavers were plenty for my study purposes. Some people in my class took pictures of the demonstrations in parasitology lab, but I never bothered, I just used my classmate's since she posted them online for us.