Tuskegee is going to hell in a hand basket

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I am a fourth year DVM student at Tuskegee. We have a 51% NAVLE pass rate. Our clinic doesn't have air conditioning in it so we are closing at 2 every day. We aren't making any money, we're constantly hemorrhaging money actually. No one communicates with us. We are on terminal probation and we were told after the news was shared with alumni. Most of our professors graduated vet school before our parents were born and have never even taken the NAVLE and continue to teach us old and out dated medicine.

I'm at a loss. I will graduate vet school with over 30 surgeries under my belt with me as the primary surgeon, I have worked in clinics, I have performed countless COHATs, I have done medical research outside of the school. I have done everything right that I was supposed to in vet school. But I don't think I will pass my NAVLE. I'm an awful test taker and even outside of that Tuskegee hasn't prepared me for it anyways.

4 years of vet school and its all gone to **** because Tuskegee won't get their stuff together.

I'm scared and tired.

 

[MixedAnimals77]

Vetprep and Zuku is my best advice and maybe try reaching out to Auburn faculty or any other faculty that you've interacted with from other schools. It sounds super dull by legit read IM books like Cote. Unfortunately you're going to have to do a ton of self leg work.

As a side note please have you and your cohort write letters to the COE on your experience. The terminal accreditation process is lengthy for a reason but it's sad students like you all are caught in the cross fire especially after all the $ you're spending to end up with a "useless" degree if you cant pass navle

 

[phntmfdr]

Vetprep and Zuku is my best advice and maybe try reaching out to Auburn faculty or any other faculty that you've interacted with from other schools. It sounds super dull by legit read IM books like Cote. Unfortunately you're going to have to do a ton of self leg work.

As a side note please have you and your cohort write letters to the COE on your experience. The terminal accreditation process is lengthy for a reason but it's sad students like you all are caught in the cross fire especially after all the $ you're spending to end up with a "useless" degree if you cant pass navle

We have to pay money for a course just so we can prove we're doing NAVLE. Our Evidence Based Learning course in 3rd/4th year is literally just a forum for us to upload proof we've done a certain percentage of Zuku questions. So its even more money being wasted for a non-education.

We won't get our loans in until mid september so I cant afford vet prep until then, hopefully I can power through as much of it as I can before my NAVLE.

We were doing large animal anatomy on literal moldy cow carcasses with no soap available in the lab. The ceilings fall in constantly. I couldn't tell you how to use any machine in a vet clinic because we do everything manually. There's no heat or air. I'm not trying to complain, I just desperately need people to know what is happening to us. We deserve better as students but we're not getting it.

 

[phntmfdr]

Vetprep and Zuku is my best advice and maybe try reaching out to Auburn faculty or any other faculty that you've interacted with from other schools. It sounds super dull by legit read IM books like Cote. Unfortunately you're going to have to do a ton of self leg work.

As a side note please have you and your cohort write letters to the COE on your experience. The terminal accreditation process is lengthy for a reason but it's sad students like you all are caught in the cross fire especially after all the $ you're spending to end up with a "useless" degree if you cant pass navle

I will start reading textbooks, though. That's a good suggestion, thank you

 

[battie]

The ICVE has a list of diseases on their website that are considered fair game. Can use those to study as well to be more targeted

 

[DVM882029]

Consider utilizing VIN as well! You get it free with being a student, so run with that as much as you can. They have case rounds, a whole student center, the forum, etc. Also, its unorthodox, but some veterinary influencers post case based questions on their social media for learning (I see it on instagram). Dr. Brooke is an ER vet in Australia, there's veteyeguy or something for optho, and I'm sure there are more. It's not ideal but a little more exposure may be helpful.