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!

Schedule!

They finally posted our elective schedules for next year! I'm pretty exicted about it! Though, there may be some changes later.

We finally get to pick classes!

After 2 years of having our schedules completely out of our hands, we finally have some freedom to choose. (Granted, there are 19 hours of required class in the Fall and 16 hours of required class in the Spring.)

Honestly, it's a little overwhelming! There are 63 options, and we have to narrow that done to a minimum of 14 and a maximum of 20 or so.

Then there's fact that we aren't guranteed to get any of the classes that we want. They assign us to classes based on request and then lottery.

So, my current plans are:

Emergency Response and Management (which has 130 slots, so I'll definitely get it)

Primate Medicine (25 slots, but I assume not a lot of interest)

Animal Models of Human Disease (10 slots, but probably not a lot of interest)

Interactive Emergency and Critical Care Small Animal Cases (30 slots)
OR
Contemporary Issues in Animal Welfare (second choice in that time slot, also 30 slots)

Small Animal Endocrinology: Problem Solving (8 slots)
OR
Diagnostic Cytology Topics (second choice, 40 slots)

Small Animal Dentistry (30 slots, who knows if I'll get it! I'm signing up for this one in 2 slots, in hopes one will come through)

Small Animal Cardiology (130 slots)

Food Animal Advanced Elective (130 slots- good for boards)

Clinical Lab Animal Medicine (5 slots, I assume not a lot of other interest)

Resolving Small Animal Behavior Problems (130 slots)

Common Complaints (8 slots, everyone wants it... so, we'll see!)
OR
Physical Medicine, Rehab, Pain Management, Alternative/Complementary Medicine (16 slots)

Small Animal Oncology (100 slots)
OR
Diagnostic Lab (6 slots)
OR
Physical Medicine, etc (16 slots)

Feline Medicine (80 slots, but it fills up every year!)

Regulatory Issues: Update for the Practitioner (80 slots. I'm not excited about this one, but it's important for being accredited/licensed as a vet. It's more important for large animal people for health certificate stuff, but it's important for rabies vaccine administration in some states and I don't know where I'm going to end up.)

Small Animal Gastroenterology (130 slots)

Small Animal Nutrition (65 slots)

Emergency Medicine (130 slots. Everyone can take this one. Dr. Bailey teaches it 6 times a year.)

First Day of Second Semester!

This semester should be quite an experience. We spend a lot more time in class, therefore we have a lot less time during the day at school to study and a lot sadder schedule (we have physiology at 8AM every day... instead of having it every day but at different times so we had 9AM Monday starts and 10AM Friday starts.)

Overall, the classes seem like they won't be so bad. There's a lot of reproduction, which is not my favorite, but it should be ok. It's just 1 unit of physiology and 6 weeks of embryology.

Schedule:
Monday
8 - 8:50 AM -- VTPP 912 Physiology II
9 - 9:50 AM -- VIBS 913 Microscopic Anatomy II
10 - 10:50 AM – VIBS 912 Gross Anatomy II
11 - 11:50 AM – VTPB 911 Veterinary Microbiology
1 - 2:50 PM – VIBS 913L Microscopic Anatomy II Lab
3 – 4:50 PM – VIBS 912L Gross Anatomy II Lab

Tuesday
8 - 8:50 AM -- VTPP 912 Physiology II
9 - 9:50 AM -- VIBS 912 Gross Anatomy II
12 - 2:50 PM -- VIBS 912L Gross Anatomy II Lab
3 - 4:50 PM – VMID 913 Clinical Correlates II

Wednesday
8 - 8:50 AM -- VTPP 912 Physiology II
11 - 11:50 AM -- VTPB 911 Veterinary Microbiology
1 - 2:50 PM – VTPB 911L Veterinary Microbiology Lab
3 – 4:50 PM – VIBS 913L Microscopic Anatomy II Lab

Thursday
8 - 8:50 AM -- VTPP 912 Physiology II
9 - 9:50 AM -- VIBS 913 Microscopic Anatomy II
10 - 11:50 AM – VTPP 912L Physiology Lab
1 - 2:50 PM – VIBS 913L Microscopic Anatomy II Lab
3 – 4:50 PM – VIBS 912L Gross Anatomy II Lab

Friday
8 - 8:50 AM -- VTPP 912 Physiology II
9 - 9:50 AM – VIBS 926 Public Health
11 - 11:50 AM -- VTPB 911 Veterinary Microbiology