Paplation Experience

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A few of my fellow first-years and I were talking about how we'd like to get some more large animal palpation experience prior to fourth year. Does anyone know of any externship-like opportunities that would help us reach this goal? We've talked about simply working with practitioners but it seems like most are hesitant (to very, very hesitant) to let us palpate clients animals. Suggestions?

Thanks.

 

[WhtsThFrequency]

Check with your FAPC and see if they have a ride-along program that would take you out with the fourth years. I know lots of food animal clubs have something like that. Or even just talk directly to the clinicians - I am sure they wouldn't mind having an extra hand or two when they go out on calls with the seniors.

 

[rugbychick16]

Check with your FAPC and see if they have a ride-along program that would take you out with the fourth years. I know lots of food animal clubs have something like that. Or even just talk directly to the clinicians - I am sure they wouldn't mind having an extra hand or two when they go out on calls with the seniors.

No nothing like that here-and most of the time there's already too slow of a caseload to have another person tagging along, although it wouldn't hurt to check.

Don't worry too much about it-us third years who took the palpation class elective in the fall (so very rural background/food animal orientated students)on average had only had our hand in about 20 cows prior to the class. (class time gave us each about another 50 cows, and still only one person and the professor could feel each cow, even with K-State's herds)

Your best bet would be trying to find a large dairy that would let you tag along on the morning checks, or a rural beef practitioner that does ultrasounding/preg checks on the large 400+ cow herds in the late summer.

 

[Nechochwen]

Our theriogenology club has good relations with the schools dairy and they will sometimes have after school palpation wetlabs, just to get used to everything. But I don't know what KSU has as far as dairy cows go.

I'm just a first year too, so I don't know, but I want to try to get used to it as much as I can before I go through farm animals rounds. Which is kinda odd for me since I want to go into zoological medicine. But the way I look at, a giraffe is just a cow on stilts, so I'd better get used to the cows. 🙂