Things I've learned in vet school

[wivet2011]

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So what 'cool' things have people learned so far? I know a few of us have learned some nerdy vet dances. I'll start.

In radiology, the first year resident decided it would be great if all the first year students learned the radiology dance (a humiliating right of passage for radiology residents). Anyways, it's kinda handy when looking at abdominal x-rays, but oh so dorky! You bend your left arm and place it across your stomach. Your upper arm is then the fundus, forearm is the body and hand (fist) is the pylorus. Long story short, you can use it to determine which view you are looking at (i.e. if body is full of gas and the pylorus and fundus are fluid filled, it must be a VD) or what view you might want to take to best see a particular region of the stomach.

My favorite so far: "Pigs are made of pork."

 

[RosieMoll3]

My favorite so far: "Pigs are made of pork."

And we learned that cats are made of rubber...which explains a lot

 

[pressmom]

Our anatomy professor here said, "Boys may come and go, but a DVM is forever." We all found that pretty amusing.

 

[Emio]

hehe, good thread!

the brachial plexus dance is something my lab partner came up with and goes something like the 'robot.' using widespread arms bent at the elbow to look like branches of the nerves, and then methodically swinging your arms and neck to elaborate the further branches.

and: "you need both parasympathetic and sympathetic nerves for good sex."

"cats have an extra muscle in their forearm cause, you know, they like to play with their balls." (thank Deanna for that one, lol)

that ferrets eat small children, hamsters bite, and rabbits eat their poop directly from their anus.

who knew??

 

[Las Vagus]

and: "you need both parasympathetic and sympathetic nerves for good sex."

Yup, to "point and shoot" as our anatomy prof says. 😛

 

[dyachei]

that pigs are curious enough to kill you.

 

[Electrophile]

Yup, to "point and shoot" as our anatomy prof says. 😛

Hehe, one of the instructors in our anatomy lab makes a big deal of the iliopsoas being the Love Muscle (complete with hip thrusting demonstrations).

 

[PAThbrd]

"cats have an extra muscle in their forearm cause, you know, they like to play with their balls." (thank Deanna for that one, lol)

That would be Orsini, not me 🙂 the best part was, he didnt even realize why we were all laughing...

 

[Emio]

heh, i know. post should have come from you though.. he didn't say that to our class 🙁

 

[wivet2011]

"Heart failure is not very popular"

 

[Electrophile]

Oh yeah, we had a clinical correlations lecture on congestive heart failure, especially in Dobermans, and the lecturer said "So if the Doberman is looking like it's in congestive heart failure, we can give them some treatment, but tell the owner not to buy another big bag of dog food." 😱

 

[wivet2011]

😱 is right...

 

[Electrophile]

I figured she was kidding, but she said it so dead pan, it was like "uh...did she just say that?"

 

[alliecat44]

The internist I used to work with would say something similar sometimes: "Looks like it's time to buy the SMALL bag of dog food..."

🙂

Actually pretty funny. Gotta love morbid humor.

Hmmm, what did I learn this week? Horses have a choriovitelline placenta (taking my embryology midterm in 40 minutes, so embryo's on my mind!). Missed that first time around. Also, cotyledonary placentas are WEIRD!!! And "Caruncle" would be a great name for a rock band.

P.S. Our class's intramural volleyball team is named the Gubernaculum. Score!

 

[Darla3]

Hey guys,


Man I havent been on this forum since I was applying. Im class of 2009 at Texas A&M. Anyways - we take public health 2nd year and learn things like: The size of turtles sold in pet shops must bet atleast 4 inches in diameter - so that children are less inclined to put them in their mouths and get salmonella. Or, dont go into public pools when you or your dog has diarrhea.......


Darla

 

[Beagingese]

Hardware disease!!!

 

[ri23]

That I don't know nearly enough functional histology for my exam tomorrow 😉

 

[JIKJen124]

That I don't know nearly enough functional histology for my exam tomorrow 😉

Amen sister! The real question is, how much anatomy do you know for Thursday?!

 

[StealthDog]

I learned about the horsehair worm, which is a long worm which explodes out of its host (the cricket) as soon as it comes into contact with water. This often occurs when your pet cat eats said cricket, then quickly vomits up the worm.

Ew.

 

[ri23]

Amen sister! The real question is, how much anatomy do you know for Thursday?!

Oh, I haven't even started that yet. Should be a fun week!

 

[wivet2011]

worm crap is a technical term

moxidectin doesn't harm dung beetle babies

 

[critterfixer]

I learned that cardiology can be hilarious fun! We had to do group presentations, and several of my very creative classmates proved they can sing, dance, dress in drag, imitate Rod Sterling and still learn a lot about the heart.

 

[PAThbrd]

if you're going to eat cat poop, make sure you eat the gooey fresh stuff, not the dried up biscuits, or else you might get toxoplasma...

 

[wivet2011]

if you're going to eat cat poop, make sure you eat the gooey fresh stuff, not the dried up biscuits, or else you might get toxoplasma...

😆 OMG, that's gotta be the best one yet!

 

[Doowai]

P.S. Our class's intramural volleyball team is named the Gubernaculum. Score!

I am not a vet student, so pardon my intrusion. That is a great name for a team. We had one that was perhaps less original, and cruder for a basketball team in school - the team name was the Nads. So the cheer was "Go Nads!"

 

[WhtsThFrequency]

If you don't know the answer to something, just say one of the two default answers - "liver" or "neoplasia" or you have a good chance of it being one

The greater omentum is awesome looking.

If you don't know what it is on a radiograph, it is spleen.

Nothing is better at warming up your arms than doing cow rectals on a cold day

When sticking that 4 inch needle through that 600 pound boar's chest into the vena cava..be sure to plug your ears...that'll be 130 decibels of "what the hell did you just stick in me!!

 

[pressmom]

When sticking that 4 inch needle through that 600 pound boar's chest into the vena cava..be sure to plug your ears...that'll be 130 decibels of "what the hell did you just stick in me!!

 

[pressmom]

I learned that cardiology can be hilarious fun! We had to do group presentations, and several of my very creative classmates proved they can sing, dance, dress in drag, imitate Rod Sterling and still learn a lot about the heart.

Drag dresser...right here!

 

[Angelo84]

If you don't know the answer to something, just say one of the two default answers - "liver" or "neoplasia" or you have a good chance of it being one

The real default answer is neural crest cells!

 

[sofficat]

we are trying to get 1000 cans from our class for a canned food drive. My friend and I decided to make a poster to help remind our class to bring in cans. Instead of the typical thermometer being the poster and the more cans you bring the hotter the temperature gets, we decided to get creative... we have a gubernaculum and a testes and the more cans you bring the lower the testes get. and yes, this poster is complete with all of the anatomy (for the most part) and a quote of "let's descend those testicles! don't let our dog be cryptorchid!!"

 

[AuburnPreVet]

It's even cuter in person. Good looking pair of testes. Very successful as well -- I'm pretty sure we've got the other classes beat by a long shot.

we are trying to get 1000 cans from our class for a canned food drive. My friend and I decided to make a poster to help remind our class to bring in cans. Instead of the typical thermometer being the poster and the more cans you bring the hotter the temperature gets, we decided to get creative... we have a gubernaculum and a testes and the more cans you bring the lower the testes get. and yes, this poster is complete with all of the anatomy (for the most part) and a quote of "let's descend those testicles! don't let our dog be cryptorchid!!"

 

[Kittenmommy]

And we learned that cats are made of rubber...which explains a lot

Geeze... I could've told you that. 😉

Oh yeah, we had a clinical correlations lecture on congestive heart failure, especially in Dobermans, and the lecturer said "So if the Doberman is looking like it's in congestive heart failure, we can give them some treatment, but tell the owner not to buy another big bag of dog food." 😱

OMG. That's just wrong. 🙁

 

[wivet2011]

If you don't have a functional brain, your lungs just sit around, cuz they're kinda dumb!

If you are going to look at the effects of CO on hemaglobin's ability to bind O2, only snort a little...too much and you'll die... and that would be bad. (I love how the last part was added, as if we didn't know death was bad!!)

Back to studying histo 😴

 

[alonepear]

Apparently almost every living organism can get some form of herpes virus (my infectious agents professor is OBSESSED with herpes, seriously)

I believe the quote the other day was:

"They're even finding the virus in trees.... Herpes in your conifer, now *that* will make for an interesting Christmas!"

(and now I'm off to another round of Histo exam fun! 😱 )

 

[Foofur]

I have learned that the right age to breed is 14 years of age... (no seriously, I asked our professor what is the best age to be bred was and he said 14- thinking that I was asking him about people!? instead of dogs?! Then he said that after 18 it was all down hill... so much for me having children!😛)

I have learned to wash my panties inside out. (this was also said by a professor!)

Finally, I have learned that no matter how frustrated you get (with classes, classmates, studying...etc) that it is vet school! I am happy to say that I am here... (finally!) 😎... I have a huge anatomy test tomorrow (which I am nowhere near ready for..) motivation anyone?! 😱😳

 

[Capella]

I've learned that getting an A on a test is not worth my mental, physical, or spiritual heath. For a while there I was really turning into a Grumpy Gus (polite term) towards anything or anybody that "stood in my way." Now I make time for church, exercise, and family even if I need to study.

 

[PAThbrd]

Amen sister! The real question is, how much anatomy do you know for Thursday?!

The only anatomy I know on Thursdays is Grey's Anatomy. 😉

 

[maddiemh]

and most important lesson - keep your mouth shut during a bovine rectal (literally) and don't eat poop.

When you are in clinics, it's OK to say, "I don't know." unfortunately, that is not an answer option at an exam... and, you don't get multiple choices in real life. (thank God, I suck at MC tests).

Believe it or not, you actually do retain things even though you can't even remember your name at times when writing an exam.

 

[wivet2011]

"If you have a cow, it's not a well behaved person"

 

[WhtsThFrequency]

I have learned also that the crunch you hear when dehorning a cow is quite possibly the weirdest sound ever.

 

[banditalfi]

Our class's intramural volleyball team is named the Gubernaculum. Score!

Haha! Gotta love the gube! It's my default answer on any anatomy practical.

 

[InfiniVet]

What I have learned so far:

In histology, the way to tell the ductus deferens from the epididymis is that the epididymis "is the dirty dirty epididymis" (spoken with sexual connotation) because it has sperm in its lumen.

Our Phys instructors told us that for any phys exam, if you don't know the answer, choose Intercellular Calcium. Though in all honesty I didn't quite find that to be true...they also instructed us that "It is what it is" is a guiding rule for veterinary school.

Thermoregulation of the testes via the pampiniform plexus works like milk pasteurization.

Bbecause of their huge metabolism, if shrews were the size of large dogs, humans would become an endangered species.

Celiaco mesenteric ganglion and plexus has the exact number of syllables as 'supercallifragilisticexpiallidocious' and you can sing this to yourself and your classmates to great annoyance.

On the first day of orientation some of the upper classmen went around interviewing 1st years on film, asking them several questions, which included "Can you flex your cremaster muscle?" which most interviewees male and female responded with "yes." They then showed the entire class the film a month later...hilarious 🙂

 

[WhtsThFrequency]

Celiaco mesenteric ganglion and plexus has the exact number of syllables as 'supercallifragilisticexpiallidocious' and you can sing this to yourself and your classmates to great annoyance.

Hahahaaa!! I hear that, our Anat prof would sing that all the time. Ce-li-a-co-mes-en-teric-gang-li-on-and-plex-us!! Hey, it helped me remember it!

 

[RazorDoc2010]

"the barbs on the penis of the male cat are a joke of mother nature"

and "how many males have received a kick to the testicles? the pain is exquisite!"

if I think of more, I'll keep adding.

 

[InfiniVet]

In the 'alternate end products of metabolism' phys lecture we learned that:

"Goldfish's end product of metabolism is actually ethanol, so therefore if you are hard up for booze - stick a couple of goldfish in a small water bowl without any filtration system. Cover the top and in a few days, voila! You have Vodka. Mind out for the fish poo, however."

 

[pressmom]

That thing on the end of a goat's penis is NOT, I repeat, NOT a French tickler. You could tell our Gross Anatomy prof couldn't wait to mention that one....

 

[pets behave]

"after hepatocytes, the sexiest cells in the body are proximal convoluted tubule cells." -physio teacher

our other physio teacher always used an interesting analogy when referring to "keeping homeostasis", it was a picture of a man being chased by a bear. and he always referred to that picture to get us to think : "the man is running, what does he feel? how is his body responding?" , "the man is now away from the bear, what is his body doing now? " he also used the bear in similar fashions, sometimes the bear got to eat the man.

as for histo, our teacher would go through reviews reminding us "its walk around knowledge" . while we frantically took notes as he explained everything. yep, definitely walk around knowledge.. or something.

anatomy didn't have any good quotes, or i don't remember them . i'll have to ask my classmates. or maybe i should think about it when its not almost midnight.lol

 

[PAThbrd]

hmm, the bear kinda sounds like one of our bone lectures in path...

you have a house in southern california, but then you decide to pick it up and move to the tetons, so you build a better roof. but then a bear comes along and eats one of your walls so you cover it up with a tarp. and then it gets really cold so you use another part of the house as firewood. and then it gets warmer out and you save up some money so you repair it and decide to move back to california anyway?

it was really confusing... i never really got it, something about bone remodeling... i understood the path, just not the house and the bear 🙂

 

[RazorDoc2010]

Just today our teacher told us "Dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have binding proteins"

And all these years, I never knew...

 

[Electrophile]

Just today our teacher told us "Dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have binding proteins"

And all these years, I never knew...

And if the client is driving a BMW...run the free T4 on the pooch! I love Dr. Ganjam! 😎

And don't forget from last semester...the ears pinned back is a sign of wickedness! And also just today, which was also rather profound:

"Evidence based medicine is not consensus of opinion" followed soon by "most of us [the professors] are just full of ****."

PAThbrd, one of our histology professors used a toy model Hummer to talk about osteoclasts driving over everything during bone remodeling. She also gave a lecture during our cell bio class. I don't recall exactly what the subject was (something on epigenetics), but she was saying that something "was the bling of the DNA." Riiiight...