I'm not expecting to blog much this week... I'm going to be immersed in finals.
Monday: Pathology
I need an 80% on this one to get an A in the class. Not bad!
Tuesday: Radiology
I need a 91% on this one to get an A in the class. That kind of makes me nervous.
Wednesday: Infectious Disease and Public Health
I need an 83% on Infectious Disease and a 70% on Public Health for A's.
Thursday: Toxicology
I'm riding a 102% in the class right now. Based on the weight of the final, I need an 81% for an A.
Friday: Surgery/Anesthesiology
Since I have no real idea of what I made on the lab practical last week, I don't really know what I need for an A. Probably something beween an 82-87%. Hopefully she'll get the lab test back to us before the end of the week.
Showing posts with label toxicology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label toxicology. Show all posts
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
Funny/Interesting Things Professors Say #4
Professor quotes
Path
“and if you’re a human… which everyone in here is…”
“It’s the retching of all retching…”
“If you have proteinuria… let me know!”
“If you’re a person, and we all are…”
Inf. Dz
“If I can’t latch on and I’m in the GI tract, I get washed out.”
“As you’re walking down the alley, the cows are lifting their tails and literally shooting it at you.”
“Veterinarians are the foremost poop-ologists.”
“That’s pretty close to screamin’ high.”
Tox
“Let me tell you what these stupid sheep do.”
“Any questions on LSD?”
“some people swear by fescue, other people swear at fescue.”
“I guess it’s ok to mutilate them as long as you don’t pick them.”
“I figure if they’re edible, I’ll eat them. I’m not picking anything off a cow patty.”
“people really want to get somebody else to pay for their mistakes.”
“We’ve been fighting France’s wars for year.”
“If you have to be bitten by one of these snakes… you want the copperhead.”
Surgery
“there are a lot of voices that go on in my head, but that’s not one of them”
“look at me! I can do hand ties. Breaks the ice with people..”
“It can be a pretty… whole body experience… to do those surgeries.”
Public Health
“What about the cool, new, sexy organisms.”
“I sit in the men’s restroom and hear the commode flush and I listen… then I hear the sink.”
“We need to learn from the blacks. They’re washing their hands.”
“There’s a stranger out there, and he’s got a pig under his coat. He’s probably a bioterrorist.”
“You’re supposed to know it.. but I’m not going to test on it because I can’t remember it either.”
“The kid gets overexcited about the kitten, the kitten gets underexcited about the kid, and voila! The gets scratched.)
“To a cat, the whole world is a litter box.”
“What are you, a laboratorian?”
“Are there any fish people… not fish people… aquarium types in here?”
“When you don’t have enclosed spaces for cats, you have escapees… which is sub-optimal.”
“45% of people have more than 1 pet… especially the cat folks.”
“long haired cats are like dust mops”
“it will turn a cat yellow… if you do it only once, it probably won’t be permanent.”
“I don’t know many dolphins that go hiking in the woods”
“lepto really, really likes Hawaii… can’t really blame it…”
“There’s nothing here that really screams ‘ I have leptospirosis!’”
“If you had to pick a brucella to be infected with… pick canis.”
Path
“and if you’re a human… which everyone in here is…”
“It’s the retching of all retching…”
“If you have proteinuria… let me know!”
“If you’re a person, and we all are…”
Inf. Dz
“If I can’t latch on and I’m in the GI tract, I get washed out.”
“As you’re walking down the alley, the cows are lifting their tails and literally shooting it at you.”
“Veterinarians are the foremost poop-ologists.”
“That’s pretty close to screamin’ high.”
Tox
“Let me tell you what these stupid sheep do.”
“Any questions on LSD?”
“some people swear by fescue, other people swear at fescue.”
“I guess it’s ok to mutilate them as long as you don’t pick them.”
“I figure if they’re edible, I’ll eat them. I’m not picking anything off a cow patty.”
“people really want to get somebody else to pay for their mistakes.”
“We’ve been fighting France’s wars for year.”
“If you have to be bitten by one of these snakes… you want the copperhead.”
Surgery
“there are a lot of voices that go on in my head, but that’s not one of them”
“look at me! I can do hand ties. Breaks the ice with people..”
“It can be a pretty… whole body experience… to do those surgeries.”
Public Health
“What about the cool, new, sexy organisms.”
“I sit in the men’s restroom and hear the commode flush and I listen… then I hear the sink.”
“We need to learn from the blacks. They’re washing their hands.”
“There’s a stranger out there, and he’s got a pig under his coat. He’s probably a bioterrorist.”
“You’re supposed to know it.. but I’m not going to test on it because I can’t remember it either.”
“The kid gets overexcited about the kitten, the kitten gets underexcited about the kid, and voila! The gets scratched.)
“To a cat, the whole world is a litter box.”
“What are you, a laboratorian?”
“Are there any fish people… not fish people… aquarium types in here?”
“When you don’t have enclosed spaces for cats, you have escapees… which is sub-optimal.”
“45% of people have more than 1 pet… especially the cat folks.”
“long haired cats are like dust mops”
“it will turn a cat yellow… if you do it only once, it probably won’t be permanent.”
“I don’t know many dolphins that go hiking in the woods”
“lepto really, really likes Hawaii… can’t really blame it…”
“There’s nothing here that really screams ‘ I have leptospirosis!’”
“If you had to pick a brucella to be infected with… pick canis.”
Friday, April 9, 2010
Poinsettias
I think it's pretty common myth/knowledge/lore that poinsettias are toxic to dogs. I know I had always heard that.
We learned this week in Toxicology that while poinsettias were quite toxic in the 70's, the ones sold commercially aren't anymore. The poinsettia sellers have bred the toxic agent out of the plants.
I think that's really awesome! (especially because it means I can have poinsettias at Christmas now! Sadly, lilies are still out.)
We learned this week in Toxicology that while poinsettias were quite toxic in the 70's, the ones sold commercially aren't anymore. The poinsettia sellers have bred the toxic agent out of the plants.
I think that's really awesome! (especially because it means I can have poinsettias at Christmas now! Sadly, lilies are still out.)
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Funny/Interesting Things Professors Say #3
Professor quotes
Pathology
“I did brush my teeth this morning… so…”
“some student have described it as nuclear spooning.”
“Cats look different anyway… they’re like little horses in miniature. No, really, they have a lot of similarities!”
“transmissible venereal tumors can be present anywhere dogs like to touch their nose or do the nasty.”
“this is in species that love to contract their spleens”
“Platelets are sensitive little guys. You talk to them ugly and they get agitated and aggregate.”
Infectious Diseases
“Good guess! I mean, good answer.”
Toxicology
“I would think if you have an upset stomach, you wouldn’t want to take strychnine.”
“I don’t know how you guys are going to finish a major exam in 50 minutes…”
“those big planes have a glide path about like a rock.”
“obviously children don’t lick it off.”
“He should have been shot between the eyes… or slid down a 40 foot razor blade into a barrel of turpentine.”
“Most people don’t read the damn label, just like most people don’t read the damn instructions.”
Surgery
“The single, lone ranger, advantage…”
“Silk… oh! Bad, bad boy! Wicked! Evil!”
“The angels sing when we start talking about Surgilene”
“If anybody says “I’m going to sew this back together” I’m going to jump them and wrestle them to the ground.”
“placing 45 simple interrupted sutures is a real buzz kill.”
“this is part where I feel like I need to interpret through dance or something”
Public Health
“I’m going to try to make this not boring… this could be hard.”
Pathology
“I did brush my teeth this morning… so…”
“some student have described it as nuclear spooning.”
“Cats look different anyway… they’re like little horses in miniature. No, really, they have a lot of similarities!”
“transmissible venereal tumors can be present anywhere dogs like to touch their nose or do the nasty.”
“this is in species that love to contract their spleens”
“Platelets are sensitive little guys. You talk to them ugly and they get agitated and aggregate.”
Infectious Diseases
“Good guess! I mean, good answer.”
Toxicology
“I would think if you have an upset stomach, you wouldn’t want to take strychnine.”
“I don’t know how you guys are going to finish a major exam in 50 minutes…”
“those big planes have a glide path about like a rock.”
“obviously children don’t lick it off.”
“He should have been shot between the eyes… or slid down a 40 foot razor blade into a barrel of turpentine.”
“Most people don’t read the damn label, just like most people don’t read the damn instructions.”
Surgery
“The single, lone ranger, advantage…”
“Silk… oh! Bad, bad boy! Wicked! Evil!”
“The angels sing when we start talking about Surgilene”
“If anybody says “I’m going to sew this back together” I’m going to jump them and wrestle them to the ground.”
“placing 45 simple interrupted sutures is a real buzz kill.”
“this is part where I feel like I need to interpret through dance or something”
Public Health
“I’m going to try to make this not boring… this could be hard.”
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
There is a Ton of Toxicology
I’m a little overwhelmed with the amount of information we’re expected to know about toxicology. We just started this class halfway through the semester (it started after pharmacology ended.) And, wow! We thought we had to know a lot about pharmacology (drug names, mechanisms of action, significant side effects, contraindications, general category of disease affected) but toxicology seems like so much more!
Both classes do weekly quizzes (I think mostly to force us to keep up with the information.) In pharmacology, each quiz would cover maybe 3-4 pages of the notes that I make from lecture. In toxicology, the first quiz covers 20 pages of condensed information (and 60 of the note set, which is about 600 powerpoint slides of information!)
I’m trying to keep about 15 heavy metals and 10 pesticides straight (for just this quiz!) with respect to names, forms, pathogenesis, organ system most affected, animal most affected, lesions and treatment.
It’s just a lot of information!
Both classes do weekly quizzes (I think mostly to force us to keep up with the information.) In pharmacology, each quiz would cover maybe 3-4 pages of the notes that I make from lecture. In toxicology, the first quiz covers 20 pages of condensed information (and 60 of the note set, which is about 600 powerpoint slides of information!)
I’m trying to keep about 15 heavy metals and 10 pesticides straight (for just this quiz!) with respect to names, forms, pathogenesis, organ system most affected, animal most affected, lesions and treatment.
It’s just a lot of information!
Monday, August 24, 2009
And so it begins...
The first day went really well, over all.
The classes, so far, seem like they'll be fine. A lot of out-of-class learning, though. The pharmacology professor even told us she doesn't plan to just teach us the information... we're going to spend the class time learning to apply information to new situations. Or something like that. I'm a little skeptical.
Parasitology should be ineresting in that I'm really interested in parasites. Pathology should be fun because it's a bunch of crazy, gross stuff. Pharmacology/Toxicology I'm not exicted about (though, Toxicology should be better because I like the professor, who was my faculty mentor)... it seems like a lot of busy work. Tomorrow, we'll have our first round of Nutrition, which could go either way.
The classes, so far, seem like they'll be fine. A lot of out-of-class learning, though. The pharmacology professor even told us she doesn't plan to just teach us the information... we're going to spend the class time learning to apply information to new situations. Or something like that. I'm a little skeptical.
Parasitology should be ineresting in that I'm really interested in parasites. Pathology should be fun because it's a bunch of crazy, gross stuff. Pharmacology/Toxicology I'm not exicted about (though, Toxicology should be better because I like the professor, who was my faculty mentor)... it seems like a lot of busy work. Tomorrow, we'll have our first round of Nutrition, which could go either way.
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