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The winter term started on Monday. It's going to be an interesting term — lots of variety, neat professors, etc.
The list of classes:
Small animal medicine
Large animal medicine
Large Animal surgery
Animal behavior
Practice management
Ruminant nutrition
Small animal nutrition
It's not as bad as it looks -- only the first four classes are graded and the rest are pass/no pass.
I always have a daily planner, but usually don't make much use of it. This term will be an exception — the last four classes are taught on sometimes varying days at varying places in the term. For example, today practice management took the place of large animal medicine and extended an hour beyond the normal class time. The first two morning classes were cancelled. That trend will become somewhat familiar by the end of the term, I reckon.
Tuesday half of the large animal surgery class (myself included) received their surgery ponies. My group of three received a small, <8 month old, rather well behaved chestnut. It is underweight, appears to have rainrot and might have had worms. Hopefully it will pick up in health... and then we might have a little terror on our hands.
Each group is to check on their pony once a day and write a SOAP (= medical record including subjective and objective data plus an assessment of the data and plan of action). We should all be semi-pros at pony medicine and care by the end of this quarter -- and I can sure use the hands-on experience.
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Our small animal dermatology professor (whose speaking style/delivery remind me of David Smucker) is enthusiastic, friendly and very knowledgeable -- it's amazing the stuff he says off the top of his head!
The list of classes:
Small animal medicine
Large animal medicine
Large Animal surgery
Animal behavior
Practice management
Ruminant nutrition
Small animal nutrition
It's not as bad as it looks -- only the first four classes are graded and the rest are pass/no pass.
I always have a daily planner, but usually don't make much use of it. This term will be an exception — the last four classes are taught on sometimes varying days at varying places in the term. For example, today practice management took the place of large animal medicine and extended an hour beyond the normal class time. The first two morning classes were cancelled. That trend will become somewhat familiar by the end of the term, I reckon.
Tuesday half of the large animal surgery class (myself included) received their surgery ponies. My group of three received a small, <8 month old, rather well behaved chestnut. It is underweight, appears to have rainrot and might have had worms. Hopefully it will pick up in health... and then we might have a little terror on our hands.
Each group is to check on their pony once a day and write a SOAP (= medical record including subjective and objective data plus an assessment of the data and plan of action). We should all be semi-pros at pony medicine and care by the end of this quarter -- and I can sure use the hands-on experience.
Our small animal dermatology professor (whose speaking style/delivery remind me of David Smucker) is enthusiastic, friendly and very knowledgeable -- it's amazing the stuff he says off the top of his head!
posted by Claire at 19:08
2 Comments:
You forgot to mention that our derm prof looks like Doogie Howser :)
Forgot, ha ha. Anna, the thing about me is that I have a higher than average knowledge of the names and faces of famous Mennonites and an absolutely abysmal knowledge of TV shows past and present. And that thing on your blog about names of bands, well, I'd heard of about 7/70 of the ones mentioned.
I guess I won't be using popular culture to connect with my clients in a year.5. :)
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