Third-year is exciting. It’s the first year you have real responsibilities in the hospital. We get to start doing surgeries and anesthesia rotations in the shelter med department. It’s also our last two semesters of classwork before transitioning to clinical rotations. Third-year is a time of change. We are no longer learning basic anatomy and […]
Surviving an Online Semester
As the fall semester of my third year comes to a close, I’ve taken a little bit of time to reflect on this year and this semester. If someone had told me when I started veterinary school in 2018 that my third year would be conducted mostly online in the face of a pandemic, I […]
A Million Different Ways
This semester I’ve had the opportunity to learn from multiple clinicians while completing my Junior Surgery course, and something that I am really starting to learn is that there are a million ways to effectively practice veterinary medicine. For something as simple as a neuter, there are multiple possible surgical approaches, methods of ligation, and […]