While I don't always agree with what Dr. Beaver has to say, I've learned a lot in this class.
For example, there are 10-15 kinds of aggression. All of them need to be dealt with in different ways and some of them are easier to treat than others. For example, dominance aggression is usually easier to deal with than prey aggression. Prey aggression has its own internal reward (getting to chase/catch the animal playing prey item!)
Today, we talked about ADHD, which is over-diagnosed in humans and under-diagnosed in animals.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
Week One, in review
My first week back to school went really well!
I only have one elective this block- Resolving Small Animal Behavior Problems- which should be interesting. It's important information but I find myself presenting arguments in my head when this particular professor lectures. Especially when she starts talking about cat behavior. But, hopefully, I'll get something valuable out of the class!
Small Animal Medicine has been entertaining so far (my favorite vet school professor has been lecturing.) It's a little rough that it meets 8 hours a week, though!
Correlates is, well, correlates. We got our first case last week. I spent something like 6-8 hours on it... but it really reaches this point of diminishing returns where doing more isn't getting you anywhere. You've followed the process as well as you can but you're going to make the wrong judgement call anyway, so why bother?
Practice management is... something. The projects should be fun and worthwhile and assuming we have guest speakers pretty often it should be ok. While I like Dr. Posey very much as a person, I find his lecture style a little disjointed which can be frustrating.
Radiology is rough. It just doesn't seem fair to have it in the 3-5 timeslot on Friday!
However, I have all this free time... I have no idea what to do with all of it! It's crazy!
I only have one elective this block- Resolving Small Animal Behavior Problems- which should be interesting. It's important information but I find myself presenting arguments in my head when this particular professor lectures. Especially when she starts talking about cat behavior. But, hopefully, I'll get something valuable out of the class!
Small Animal Medicine has been entertaining so far (my favorite vet school professor has been lecturing.) It's a little rough that it meets 8 hours a week, though!
Correlates is, well, correlates. We got our first case last week. I spent something like 6-8 hours on it... but it really reaches this point of diminishing returns where doing more isn't getting you anywhere. You've followed the process as well as you can but you're going to make the wrong judgement call anyway, so why bother?
Practice management is... something. The projects should be fun and worthwhile and assuming we have guest speakers pretty often it should be ok. While I like Dr. Posey very much as a person, I find his lecture style a little disjointed which can be frustrating.
Radiology is rough. It just doesn't seem fair to have it in the 3-5 timeslot on Friday!
However, I have all this free time... I have no idea what to do with all of it! It's crazy!
Monday, January 10, 2011
New Semester
Classes start today (I'm actually writing this from break in my Resolving Small Animal Behavior Problems class).
I'm both excited and a little nervous. For some reason, I feel the least prepared I've ever been for the start of a semester. I don't feel like I have all my stuff organized very well. I feel just all at odds! (And I would much rather be at home with my fiance and my parents!)
At least there's just one more semester of classroom stuff before clinics!
I'm both excited and a little nervous. For some reason, I feel the least prepared I've ever been for the start of a semester. I don't feel like I have all my stuff organized very well. I feel just all at odds! (And I would much rather be at home with my fiance and my parents!)
At least there's just one more semester of classroom stuff before clinics!
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