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[twosoakers]

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Hi all,

Western is telling me I need all of this stuff. Anyone know of the least expensive way to go about this? Should I go through a human med supply distributor? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated:

Alice

Required Supplies:
Tan coveralls

Rubber boots (over-the-shoe OK)
Dark leather or leather-look dress shoes (no high heels, open toe, or open back)
Suture scissors (Spencer stitch scissors recommended)
Bandage scissors
Stethoscope *
Digital thermometer
Indirect ophthalmoscopy lens (20 diopter recommended) *
Penlight
Reflex hammer (Taylor recommended)
Scalpel handle #3
Mayo-Hegar needle holder, 6” or 7” (7” for large animals or large hands)
Sharp-blunt surgical scissors
Brown-Adson tissue forceps
Watch with second hand

Optional Supplies:
Mercury thermometer and alligator clip (food/production animals)
Otoscope and direct ophthalmoscope diagnostic set (small animals) *
Scalpel handle #4 (large animals)
Mayo straight scissors
Metzenbaum scissors (small animals)
Adson (rat-toothed) tissue forceps
Pocket calculator

 

[pressmom]

And they didn't give you suggestions of where to get them?!?! What?!?! 😕

I guess I would go through human med...you'll probably get it cheaper.

 

[cyrille104]

And they didn't give you suggestions of where to get them?!?! What?!?! 😕

I guess I would go through human med...you'll probably get it cheaper.

I dunno, the stethoscopes made for vet med are pretty much the same and cost less because the target consumer is different. For pretty much everything else, though, I don't even think there's even a vet med distinction.

 

[silverelf]

google!!

i found some textbooks for this year at over 50% off via google-power....look up medical supplies, veterinary supplies....etc. Also, play to your discounting strengths....i know VIN has a bookstore with discounts, see if they have any other supply stuff....and total aside but if you have a B&N membership....vet books are ridiculously cheap there!

if you're chummy with the rep at the clinic you work at (and you should be, they give you loads of fantastic free stuff) see if you can work something out with them...also browse the supply catalogs at the vet clinic and see what's on sale and what you can order. i wouldn't ebay much of that (i'd want it guaranteed new) but that's another money-saving option.

anyway, those were some ideas i thought up.

oh, and for coveralls my friend who's going to UCDavis said there are basically no stores that sell them in Cali (figures) but Dickies online had okay prices.

 

[twosoakers]

awesome. so, by coveralls, we're not talking bibs, right? we're talking total carhart-ed? i'm in indiana, so i shouldn't have a problem finding them. they probably even sell them in the liquor stores here.

Alice

 

[Spartanvet4cows]

Coveralls: They're usually more lightweight than the lined carhart variety. I recommend getting short sleeved coveralls that are a little big so you can fit layers underneath. That worked out really well in Michigan.
The c/o 2009 is just sending out e-mails here for equipment. Sometimes your older classmates will be selling discounted equipment to make money for the class. I know that stethoscopes, dissection kits and bandage scissors were on that list. I also bought my coveralls from one of the classes. You typically get a better deal that way and you're helping your schoolmates. I bought my rubber boots at the medical bookstore at our school. They also carried coveralls, scrubs, stethoscopes, and dissection equipment. The boots were less than $20, they're Tingley's that go over the shoe. Make sure to try a pair on with the shoes you plan to wear so that you get the right size. Dissection kits with scalpels, rat tooth forceps, and a few other goodies only ran about 8 bucks at the bookstore.

Hope that helps, and congrats for making c/o 2011!

 

[QTkitty]

You might want to contact someone at Western. The students often go to Cal Poly Pomona (my undergrad school) to study and they were all in the same coveralls. They may have someone/ somewhere in particular they all get them from. On a side note, you won't really need to layer in So. Cal. It gets kind of cool in the winter, but nothing like Michigan! Some of the students at CPP bought boots (for over the shoe) at Target super cheap for our outdoor messy labs.

 

[kate_g]

oh, and for coveralls my friend who's going to UCDavis said there are basically no stores that sell them in Cali (figures) but Dickies online had okay prices.

Word on the Davis 2011 Yahoo group is that the Davis bookstore sells them. But what concerns me more is why this person has been coverall shopping... We haven't gotten a list of stuff to buy yet.

 

[chris03333]

Hi all,

Western is telling me I need all of this stuff. Anyone know of the least expensive way to go about this? Should I go through a human med supply distributor? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated:

Alice

Required Supplies:
Tan coveralls

Rubber boots (over-the-shoe OK)
Dark leather or leather-look dress shoes (no high heels, open toe, or open back)
Suture scissors (Spencer stitch scissors recommended)
Bandage scissors
Stethoscope *
Digital thermometer
Indirect ophthalmoscopy lens (20 diopter recommended) *
Penlight
Reflex hammer (Taylor recommended)
Scalpel handle #3
Mayo-Hegar needle holder, 6" or 7" (7" for large animals or large hands)
Sharp-blunt surgical scissors
Brown-Adson tissue forceps
Watch with second hand

Optional Supplies:
Mercury thermometer and alligator clip (food/production animals)
Otoscope and direct ophthalmoscope diagnostic set (small animals) *
Scalpel handle #4 (large animals)
Mayo straight scissors
Metzenbaum scissors (small animals)
Adson (rat-toothed) tissue forceps
Pocket calculator

Okay for the coveralls get dickies, short sleeved, this is CA not MI. Boots are cheap at walmart.
All of the surgical instruments can wait (except get the needle holders and tissue forceps. You also need these (Remember you are at Western, so will get patients from the very beginning):
B]Stethoscope *[/B]
Digital thermometer
Indirect ophthalmoscopy lens (20 diopter recommended) *
Penlight
Reflex hammer (Taylor recommended
(all of which can be bought on campus at a good discount during orientation week)
you need a pocket calc (also can get cheap at walmart)
Shoes can be easily found at a birkenstock store (get orthopod shoes, can be expensive but they last forever and really save your feet in surgery) I recommend Danskos if you are okay with clogs.


I graduated from western in May so if you need help PM me. I can also give you an email address or 2 that will be helpful (obviously only through PM).

 

[silverelf]

Word on the Davis 2011 Yahoo group is that the Davis bookstore sells them. But what concerns me more is why this person has been coverall shopping... We haven't gotten a list of stuff to buy yet.

she is working with the UCDavis bovine program this summer, and needed them for that job. she hasn't gotten a supply list either 🙂

 

[conservationgal]

Rubber boots...get them at Walmart, no-name brand...they are amazingly sturdy and snug!

 

[kate_g]

Does everyone pretty much do over-the-shoe boots? What's the advantage there? I wear Dansko clogs essentially 100% of the time as my regular shoes, and I suspect that no rubber boot is made to hold a 3" clog sole. 🙄 So... I'd be looking at a radical change in footwear habits or getting a pair of boots made for wearing *without* shoes - which I used to have for fieldwork, but got rid of when I moved into a lab and figured I wouldn't need them anymore. 😡 But would those be a horrible inconvenience for some reason I'm not currently forseeing? I'd obviously need to be able to leave my regular shoes someplace nearby, so I could change back into them after doing whatever mucky stuff necessitated the boots in the first place. Maybe I'll just get the cheapo Walmart over-the-shoe model to start with and buy some non-shoe ones after I see how the logistics work out.

By the way, and totally off-topic... One of my fondest memories of the Minnesota interview was the fact that they marched us right into the barn on the tour. No shoe covers (like Wisconsin) no route that avoided actually going through the messy parts (like Davis). I kind of got the feeling that they were saying "If you can't handle puddles and cow poo in your dress shoes, you really don't belong here." 😀

 

[twosoakers]

I went to a farm store (Indiana's chock full of them) and got the over-the-shoe black rubber boots that fasten with funny metal clasps on front. There were giant yellow ones, but I didn't want to get laughed at. I made sure they fit my steel-toed ****kickers. Finding dickies has been a different story.

Thanks, everyone, for your great advice.