From Vet Assistant to Veterinarian

Vet Med Life

Friday, February 25, 2005

I'm getting excited because I'm going to Texas in less than 2 weeks! I'll get to attend some cool lectures, participate in some fun academic competitions, get free stuff, & relax by going out bar crawling/clubing. It will be a well needed break from the slew of tests that have past. Well, back to studying the "oh so lovely" subject of Veterinary Virology.

Sunday, February 20, 2005

I finally got my group's parasitology project uploaded so if you want to see it here it is. It is a huge file so it might take a little while to download.

Friday, February 18, 2005

T.G.I.F.!!
I had a Clin Path quiz on Wednesday, of which I took 1 look @ the first 6 questions & the chart it pertained to & directly went to question #7. Thursday was my Companion Animal Medicine (CAM) Neuro exam & today was that class's Optho exam. Neuro could have been a lot worst but had so many typos in it... it was driving me crazy! We were interupted every 5-10 minutes w/ corrections, which made my train of thought leave the station w/o dropping of any passengers...oh well. It didn't help that 80% of the material on the Neuro section was taught in 1.5 days by a boarded neurologist from up north that wasn't present for the exam. The Optho was pretty much what I expected; I love the fact that we got a copy of all the possible problems that the clinical questions would be based on, so that we had time to make DDx. 1.5 hours for 15 DDx lists would just be madness! Well, with next week come my Pharm & Special Path exams...wish me luck!

Tuesday, February 08, 2005

I cannot wait for the days of not having to go to school anymore. Not because it will be an end to lectures but because I'll stop "living" in a petri dish!!!! A plethora of students in my class & the first year class are sick. Yes, vet school is stressful (thus altering our immune systems) but the shiznit hasn't hit the fan quite yet so the stress factor is minimal. Thus, some nin-come-poop brought a "bug" (appears to be viral) back from their winter break locale that has infected us all. We are stuck together for most of the day, 5 days a week, so we are all bound to pass our germs to everything in the lecture hall. I currently have a drippy nose & sore throat...I'm praying that it will just be one of my quicky colds.

Thursday, February 03, 2005

So this week we had our first 2 "tests of our knowledge." They were quizzes in Clinical Pathology & Food Safety. The Clin Path one was quite fair & was straight from his notes. Now on the other hand...Food Safety was horrible. We were told there would be no dates to worry about & there were 2 questions with dates. Also, we were asked some bizzare question about assessing risks/hazards. I'm kinda curious to see what the grades will be on the latter. Also, in Food Safety we had a speaker that was so hard to understand that when he compared the Capillaria egg to looking like a penis only a few students laughed...or maybe he said peanut?! I dunno.