Well all during residency I taught the fourth years on the floor as well as the second year path lab (rotating with the other residents) but I've actually never done a big lecture. I alwasy got really good reviews from the students so I think I'd be good at it. Path is one of those things that can be taught very well or VERY badly, and I hope to be one of the good ones - hence why I'm doing this PhD to get a clinical professorship somewhere 🙂. I'm also getting a education/professoriate certificate with extra classes in pedagogy, mentorship, etc along with it. I had some amazing profs at school and I hope I can be as good as them, not just as a diagnostician but as a teacher.
I feel like a lot of people come out of vet school not really appreciating or understanding pathology, thinking "Oh, I'll never have to do a necropsy or look at a slide, why does this matter".....well, it matters because any monkey can match a diagnosis to a drug in Plumbs. That's not being a doctor. Understanding the pathogenesis of a disease and WHY it does the things it does and what specific changes are occuring at an organ level, how those changes affect other organs, or even cellular level is what makes you a veterinarian and not just a diagnosis machine.
Ok, end rant, haha.
I just realized that means I may be eventually teaching some of the c/o 2018 on here lol. Aw ****, I better shape up and act like an adult.
