The surface pros are tablets, but you can use them functionally as a laptop. I have for years.
Yeah, I use the keyboard you can get with it.
Which schools? I could understand that for the Surface tablets, but the Surface Studios are laptops at their core with the ability to then fold down into a tablet. I don’t think I would ever switch away from it now.
Yes, definitely recommend rubber boots as things get drippy and we had to wash our area down every time when we were done, especially with horse dissection. I’d go cheap-ish but also try to hang on to them and you can reuse them for necropsy rotations too if they don’t have perma-formaldehyde stink. Wouldn’t invest much because they get gross and then you don’t have to feel bad about just tossing them when the time comes.
I have canvas shoes that are machine washable and wear disposable plastic covers over them 😅
Tbh half my coworkers in my clinic where we worked 12+ hr shifts on our feet would swear by crocs, especially for being wide foot friendly. I never could get into them though 😅
i got tingley overboots at my schools recommendation (i’m a women’s 8.5) and i could barely get them over my regular sneakers. i ended up asking for full rubber muck boots for christmas bc i was having such a hard time getting them on before large animal clin skills labs (and i would lose a pair of shoes to being stuck in them for like a week after). so honestly the tingleys might end up fitting you fine but tbh if they don’t absolutely need to be an overshoe i’d just get regular full rubber boots
Thank you both! VMCVM says they have to be overshoes but I'll hold off until I know for sure that I’m going there and that they really mean it
You can also see if 4th years are selling them before you buy them! That’s how I got mine. I wore muck brand boots for the first few years for clinical skills and such and got someone’s tingleys when they were graduating and sold them to someone else when I graduated.
I got mine a size up and they fit perfectly! So getting the 8.5 size would probably be just fine.
i am also not a sneakers girl really but, i can totally vouch for brooks! yes, expensive but you will get a lot of time out of them. my first pair i wore for well over a year. i was working in surgery so i was on my feet literally all day and never had any problems-- honestly the only reason i replaced them is that i made the mistake of getting a light pink color and they got super blood-stained and looked scary. now, i wear my brooks to anatomy and they've gotten a little gross in there, but not bad, i will probably keep them through all of school.
For anatomy, I just used an old pair of sneakers that I knew was on its last legs (like they were stained and starting to get holes in them). No one in my class used rubber boots for small animal anatomy but a few did when we switched to large animal. I never really got anything on my shoes even in large animal - which is kinda surprising thinking about it. But yeah I just kept my "anatomy shoes" in my locker and didn't use them for anything else. Never tried to clean them or otherwise refresh them.
1. Clinical Practice or AMC: slip-resistant water-proof boots with disposable shoe covers. I keep medical footwear separate from personal (non-medical) footwear. I don't bring footwear used in clinical medical practice or AMC away from work with me. The AMC does a fantastic job cleaning our professional work attire in compliance with rigorous cleaning protocol for Level 1 Trauma Center.
Same! I just wore an old pair of Converse that had holes in them lol. Nobody in my class has worn rubber boots, but I'm at a school that uses prosections rather than dissecting our own cadavers so that could be why.
Yeah, dissections definitely can get ~slippery~ especially large animal with some fat falling on the floor 🫠
Same same same
I stumbled upon this so I know I’m a bit late to the party, but I wear Hoka Bondis for 12hr VA shifts. 90% of my clinic wears them. I am in my 30s with wide feet and 2 herniated discs in my back and they are life savers! Pricey, but totally worth it IMO.
