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I don't know if anyone's interested in this, so I decided not to start a new thread, but the Saul T Wilson (USDA) veterinary scholarship/internship in now open.

There's two positions open a gs4/5 that seems more for undergrads and a GS7/9 for vet students and master's degree holders (I believe). They are only open for this week! The posting closes on Friday (4/22), so act fast.
If you make it past the initial review they'll contact you and you have like a week and a half to two weeks to get 3 letters of rec sent to them.
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/436085500/#btn-add-info

This link is for the GS 7/9 position
 
Teepster87 said:
I don't know if anyone's interested in this, so I decided not to start a new thread, but the Saul T Wilson (USDA) veterinary scholarship/internship in now open.

There's two positions open a gs4/5 that seems more for undergrads and a GS7/9 for vet students and master's degree holders (I believe). They are only open for this week! The posting closes on Friday (4/22), so act fast.
If you make it past the initial review they'll contact you and you have like a week and a half to two weeks to get 3 letters of rec sent to them.
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/436085500/#btn-add-info

This link is for the GS 7/9 position
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I'm interested, but sadly, since I'm stuck in waitlist limbo, I don't meet the requirements at the moment so I can't apply which greatly sucks.
 
Lupin21 said:
I'm pretty partial to mine. Lurve my pup and the cartoon he's named after. Just happy that I got through the beginning WW period where people lynched me based off it. haha
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Wait... so your username isn't as in Remus Lupin? 😵
 
Teepster87 said:
I don't know if anyone's interested in this, so I decided not to start a new thread, but the Saul T Wilson (USDA) veterinary scholarship/internship in now open.

There's two positions open a gs4/5 that seems more for undergrads and a GS7/9 for vet students and master's degree holders (I believe). They are only open for this week! The posting closes on Friday (4/22), so act fast.
If you make it past the initial review they'll contact you and you have like a week and a half to two weeks to get 3 letters of rec sent to them.
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/436085500/#btn-add-info

This link is for the GS 7/9 position
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Yeah I got the email that it was available. Don't think I can apply since I wasn't a student for the 2015-16 school year. Damn blood clot.
 
WildZoo said:
Yeah I got the email that it was available. Don't think I can apply since I wasn't a student for the 2015-16 school year. Damn blood clot.
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I'll have to reread the posting but I don't think not being in school last year should matter. I wasn't enrolled during the past year either


***Edit- pulled from the requirements:Proof of student status for the 2015-2016 school year is required. Applicants must submit one of the following: a letter of acceptance to an accredited college or university for an upcoming academic term; OR Transcripts showing enrollment for spring 2016 at an accredited college or university; OR A letter on college/university stationery stating that you are enrolled for fall 2016 academic term.

Since we're all starting this fall, I believe that we fulfill this requirement by being registered for the upcoming fall semester. Apply, apply, apply!
 
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Feeling dumb but relived...Was so sad for the past two days because I thought I cracked the screen on my new watch I just got for clinics. It's supposed to be pretty dang hardy so I was also confused as to how I broke it already. Was on the phone with the company trying to get it fixed/replaced and cleaned it while talking to them. It was just a white scratch that came off with a clorox wipe...whoops. Wish I figured that out before I called them :laugh:
 
PrincessButterCup said:
I love it!
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Thanks 🙂

This is Filly Bay (left) with her colt from last year "The Big Bay Wolf"
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Profile pic is her with her new filly (yet to be named).
 
I think my boss may have given me a raise but he didn't say anything so I'm not sure? I realized after I deposited my check on my pay slip it lists my wage as a $1/hour more than I'm actually paid. I need to talk to him tomorrow, because I feel super bad if this is an accident and I didn't catch it in time.

But yay maybe raise? I will be so exited if it is 😀
 
Trilt said:
I distinctly remember getting into an argument on SDN a couple years back about vet students doing something similar with cadaver GI...
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Just scanned through that thread.

This is exactly why photos in the anatomy lab are strictly banned. So much wrong can occur from a poorly thought out FB post/picture (look into the UF spay/neuter event that morphed into a"horrendous animal testing" event thanks to social media).
 
Trilt said:
I distinctly remember getting into an argument on SDN a couple years back about vet students doing something similar with cadaver GI...
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I had an unpleasant reaction to reading it...and I was going to say a visceral reaction but I get how that sounds. You know what I mean. 😉

Not impressed.
 
Edit: I have a pic, but I decided to follow Lupin's advice.
I wasn't thinking when I posted it- I just didn't know what to think of the event.
 
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Lupin21 said:
Some of the jokes come from other areas of sdn, so don't always translate. 🙂
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Very true. Also, I'm terrible at sarcasm. I don't have the greatest hearing, so growing up, I always had to have people repeat what they said, and most people take out sarcasm once they repeat it.


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Eee....This was definitely not a real request! 😱 Just an interwebz joke. Respecting of bodily autonomy is very important.

Apologies.
 
Trilt said:
oh look Trilt pointing out old conversations even then. :laugh:

I miss some of those people. Others not as much.
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I did think that was pretty funny, your first post in the thread was a reference to another thread. Kind of hoped I could follow it down a rabbit hole but it ends with that one :laugh:
 
pinkpuppy9 said:
Just scanned through that thread.

This is exactly why photos in the anatomy lab are strictly banned. So much wrong can occur from a poorly thought out FB post/picture (look into the UF spay/neuter event that morphed into a"horrendous animal testing" event thanks to social media).
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Yep, we had the same rule for the same reason in my undergrad meats class lab. Just imagine what could ensue if some fool posted pics playing around during butchering.

Also holy crap, if I were drinking while reading that second linked thread I'd have pulled a spit take I can't believe someone did that...Omg
 
pinkpuppy9 said:
So much wrong can occur from a poorly thought out FB post/picture (look into the UF spay/neuter event that morphed into a"horrendous animal testing" event thanks to social media).
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One of my anatomy professors actually taught at UF when that happened and he feels very strongly about not taking pictures of any animals used for teaching, including live ones in some cases. If the photos are educational he's more okay with it, but educational almost always means that students are not taking the photos and they certainly will never be on Facebook.

I really appreciated the anatomy classes I've had at my undergrad because they take respect of the specimens very seriously and have instilled the same respect in every student they teach.

If you really think about it, in many cases someone loved that animal deeply and donated them to the school so they might be used to train the next generation of veterinarians, or someone raised those animals explicitly for the purpose of education, or euthanized animals that would have been destroyed are instead donated for teaching purposes. None of those scenarios are something to take lightly.

Anyway, I'm not sure what I'm going on about anymore, but I guess what I'm saying is that cadavers should be shown care and respect and I feel very strongly about that.
 
vetmedhead said:
One of my anatomy professors actually taught at UF when that happened and he feels very strongly about not taking pictures of any animals used for teaching, including live ones in some cases. If the photos are educational he's more okay with it, but educational almost always means that students are not taking the photos and they certainly will never be on Facebook.

I really appreciated the anatomy classes I've had at my undergrad because they take respect of the specimens very seriously and have instilled the same respect in every student they teach.

If you really think about it, in many cases someone loved that animal deeply and donated them to the school so they might be used to train the next generation of veterinarians, or someone raised those animals explicitly for the purpose of education, or euthanized animals that would have been destroyed are instead donated for teaching purposes. None of those scenarios are something to take lightly.

Anyway, I'm not sure what I'm going on about anymore, but I guess what I'm saying is that cadavers should be shown care and respect and I feel very strongly about that.
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Respecting cadavers is part of our honor code. We are allowed to take pictures & videos for study purposes, but they are not to be posted anywhere online except our class dropbox (and I think that is questionable too). They are not to be shown to anyone outside of the school either. I actually had/have an emotional attachment to my cadaver dog; my whole group did. I'd be mortified if I found out that someone disrespected his remains in anyway.
 
Jilary said:
Respecting cadavers is part of our honor code. We are allowed to take pictures & videos for study purposes, but they are not to be posted anywhere online except our class dropbox (and I think that is questionable too). They are not to be shown to anyone outside of the school either. I actually had/have an emotional attachment to my cadaver dog; my whole group did. I'd be mortified if I found out that someone disrespected his remains in anyway.
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I feel the same way about my cadaver dog for my dissection class.
 
vetmedhead said:
One of my anatomy professors actually taught at UF when that happened and he feels very strongly about not taking pictures of any animals used for teaching, including live ones in some cases. If the photos are educational he's more okay with it, but educational almost always means that students are not taking the photos and they certainly will never be on Facebook.

I really appreciated the anatomy classes I've had at my undergrad because they take respect of the specimens very seriously and have instilled the same respect in every student they teach.

If you really think about it, in many cases someone loved that animal deeply and donated them to the school so they might be used to train the next generation of veterinarians, or someone raised those animals explicitly for the purpose of education, or euthanized animals that would have been destroyed are instead donated for teaching purposes. None of those scenarios are something to take lightly.

Anyway, I'm not sure what I'm going on about anymore, but I guess what I'm saying is that cadavers should be shown care and respect and I feel very strongly about that.
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I agree. I wouldn't say anyone in my group has developed any attachments to any of our cadavers, but my female dog cadaver definitely had a rough life and it shows. She came to us covered in bruises and has every single one of her teeth cut short. We suspect that she was a bait dog. You can't help but feel bad knowing that she probably never had the chance to know that people were capable of loving her. Our large animal cadavers are bought at auctions and euthanized at the school, and I think we purchase our dogs but I'm not totally sure. We also get 'fresh limbs' from dogs, horses, and cows that were euthanized a day or two ago. That tissue is a little harder for me to handle.
 
pinkpuppy9 said:
I agree. I wouldn't say anyone in my group has developed any attachments to any of our cadavers, but my female dog cadaver definitely had a rough life and it shows. She came to us covered in bruises and has every single one of her teeth cut short. We suspect that she was a bait dog. You can't help but feel bad knowing that she probably never had the chance to know that people were capable of loving her. Our large animal cadavers are bought at auctions and euthanized at the school, and I think we purchase our dogs but I'm not totally sure. We also get 'fresh limbs' from dogs, horses, and cows that were euthanized a day or two ago. That tissue is a little harder for me to handle.
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We get a lot of our fresh horse/cow limbs from the necropsy lab at the teaching hospital. We always wonder about the stories behind those too.
 
vetmedhead said:
We get a lot of our fresh horse/cow limbs from the necropsy lab at the teaching hospital. We always wonder about the stories behind those too.
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I've never gotten a straight answer on where ours come from. I know there are student jobs devoted to picking up deceased animals from local shelters throughout the year, so maybe we get our dogs and limbs that way in addition to donated animals? I kind of think every anatomy teaching group should explain this to the class at the beginning of the year, but maybe that's just me. I really would like to know where they come from. Some of the dogs are in bad shape, others are super young/cute dogs.

I don't think we do a 'cremation ceremony' either, I know some schools do that.
 
The only time I had a hard time with a cadaver was a mule that I had worked on. I was called in the week before to see her (through my colic team class). She was a real sweetheart and her owners were a nice older couple. I stayed all night to help with her treatments. She went to surgery and the cecum was ruptured 🙁 Euthanized on the table. The following week for my equine optho lab, I uncovered the head at my station and it was her. Luckily, one of my classmates was nice enough to switch with me.
 
Filly Bay said:
The only time I had a hard time with a cadaver was a mule that I had worked on. I was called in the week before to see her (through my colic team class). She was a real sweetheart and her owners were a nice older couple. I stayed all night to help with her treatments. She went to surgery and the cecum was ruptured 🙁 Euthanized on the table. The following week for my equine optho lab, I uncovered the head at my station and it was her. Luckily, one of my classmates was nice enough to switch with me.
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A lot of my classmates experienced this during our rotations. They'd be on whatever service one week, have diagnostic med the next, and see patients they recognized. I've heard of that happening with med students too...getting cadavers they recognize. Horrifying, really, even if you do switch.

I can't imagine how med students do it. I really don't think I could dissect a human, especially if their face was uncovered.
 
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