Only 2lectures today on microbiology so nothing too strenuous! Probably had better not get too used to these slack 11:00 starts and few lectures though, as before I know it 4th yr of lecture hell will be upon me. However till then I’ll make the most of it! Tomorrow is the same with only 2lectures, and on Thursday it’s a complete day off. Though spare time isn’t going to be that slack as I’ve got to get my Anaesthetic DSE sorted for Monday when my group of 4 has a 10minute talk worth 10% of basic clinical science (trust me it doesn’t seem that basic).
Last week and this work hasn’t been too bad. My therapeutics talk on Thursday went really well, think I managed to sufficiently bore the class enough with my four minute talk on how chronic renal failure causes vomiting and the therapeutic agents we would used to control the problem. Then on Friday I had a respiratory pathology DSE test worth a whole 1% which went ok (definitely much better than the one the week before).
Work over this week principally involves DSE I need to get on with as lectures are fairly minimal, even Langford on Friday has only 2lectures, though there is a 3hr microbiology practical involving Corynebacterium and Mycobacterium i.e. TB.
The DSE I have is about anaesthetising a dog for lateralisation of the arytenoid cartilage, I can talk more about this when I know something (next Monday I hope as that’s when the talk is).
Social stuff over the past week has been really good!! Last week we had a Vets Vs Layers Vs Medics pub crawl. I haven’t a clue who won as I spent most of the night drinking at Lexy’s house with a load of vet girls then went straight to the club (saving money). The night was pretty good, nothing special really happened though I was quite amazed to find that our fluffy sheep vet mascot made it back to our house after its night of reflex clubbing.
Also very importantly last week it was the half way day!! We celebrated this with an awesome day of paintball fun and a meal. Paintball was amazing!! We split the vets into four teams of 15ish and managed to fit in time for 6games each. Our team was best and came first by a massive point margin…ego through the roof. Funniest thing was the last game which was a free for all to use up remaining paint balls…Painful! I had no bruises till this game and sustained multiple back, leg, crotch and arm injuries (back looked like a paint-by-numbers). Surprising how much the things hurt at close range! The crotch shot was especially disturburbing as was literally cms away from groinal disaster!
The meal in the evening was really cool! 80 vets out for a nice 3course meal in Zero Decrees Bar in the centre.
Social wise over the upcoming week is fairly minimal till the weekend when I hope to go home for Friday night and then head over to see my cousin in Warwick on Saturday for a 70’s/80’s night should be cool.
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
This week is turning out to be well hectic, there’s something on every night and the weekend doesn’t get any less busy…
Over last weekend I had the company of my little sister Hannah and her friend Zoe who came down to see what student life is about, though as they’re to young to go out so I doubt they really appreciated the student life in full. Friday night I cooked them both a meal and some friends came round for a very socialable evening in. Think Hannah was quite impressed with my cooking as she’s never seen me make anything more than a microwave pizza at home. Then on Saturday we went out to Cribs to do some shopping and go see Meet The Fockers. They both made themselves useful out shopping as there valentine’s day gift ideas proved popular on Monday.
I dropped the two of them off fairly early on Sunday leaving the rest of the day to get to grips with our Therapeutic DSE that we got set last week. This is given to 2 DSE groups each week for those groups to perform a talk each the following week. The subject of our talk is chronic renal failure in cats. As it’s therapeutics we don’t have to go into diagnosis/prognosis, we just have to say which drugs we would use for treating the cat and constructively criticise our choices. I’ve been researching drugs for vomiting control due to the uraemic gastritis.
Yesterday we started our veterinary public health lecture course in Langford, thankfully we don’t get examined on this this year, but the 70 lectures that we have of it over the next couple of years don’t sound best fun.
In the afternoon my Langford practical group had no practical so it was a nice early home time to get on with more DSE (why some of the ridiculous amount of DSE we have couldn’t have been put in last term I don’t know).
In the evening Hayley and I went out for a nice meal to Las Iguanas, a very pleasant evening with excellent food (though bit expensive).
Today has been spent moping around the house trying to get through some therapeutics, though I think I’m sorted now as have collected and sorted out enough info on vomiting to make a contribution to our talk. Unfortunately this has meant I’ve had to miss a couple of lectures today, but this was pretty unavoidable as I can’t do any work tonight due to a meal I’m attending in Langford… my clinical tutor has invited all his 3rd , 4th and 5th year tutees round for an evening meal. I don’t really know my tutor as we don’t get lectured by him till the forth year, but he specialises in small animal orthopaedics so in my opinion he’ll no doubt be interesting.
Over the rest of this week it’s DSE, tests and social fun… Our therapeutics DSE is on Thursday, we need a powerpoint presentation and handout completed for that, then on Friday we have a Respiratory Pathology mini-test, not entirely sure where I’m going to find the time to revise for this.
Tomorrow night is the hockey social, always a messy one. As normal it’s meeting at Roo Bar for drinking games then on to Indian Ocean for curries.
Thursday night there’s a vet vs medics vs lawyers pub crawl and on Friday night I might stay in.
On Saturday it’s Half Way Day!! This is being celebrated by a day of paint-balling followed by an evening meal (the attendance figures for the meal are over 80 all from the year, pretty good going me thinks as the years 107).
Over last weekend I had the company of my little sister Hannah and her friend Zoe who came down to see what student life is about, though as they’re to young to go out so I doubt they really appreciated the student life in full. Friday night I cooked them both a meal and some friends came round for a very socialable evening in. Think Hannah was quite impressed with my cooking as she’s never seen me make anything more than a microwave pizza at home. Then on Saturday we went out to Cribs to do some shopping and go see Meet The Fockers. They both made themselves useful out shopping as there valentine’s day gift ideas proved popular on Monday.
I dropped the two of them off fairly early on Sunday leaving the rest of the day to get to grips with our Therapeutic DSE that we got set last week. This is given to 2 DSE groups each week for those groups to perform a talk each the following week. The subject of our talk is chronic renal failure in cats. As it’s therapeutics we don’t have to go into diagnosis/prognosis, we just have to say which drugs we would use for treating the cat and constructively criticise our choices. I’ve been researching drugs for vomiting control due to the uraemic gastritis.
Yesterday we started our veterinary public health lecture course in Langford, thankfully we don’t get examined on this this year, but the 70 lectures that we have of it over the next couple of years don’t sound best fun.
In the afternoon my Langford practical group had no practical so it was a nice early home time to get on with more DSE (why some of the ridiculous amount of DSE we have couldn’t have been put in last term I don’t know).
In the evening Hayley and I went out for a nice meal to Las Iguanas, a very pleasant evening with excellent food (though bit expensive).
Today has been spent moping around the house trying to get through some therapeutics, though I think I’m sorted now as have collected and sorted out enough info on vomiting to make a contribution to our talk. Unfortunately this has meant I’ve had to miss a couple of lectures today, but this was pretty unavoidable as I can’t do any work tonight due to a meal I’m attending in Langford… my clinical tutor has invited all his 3rd , 4th and 5th year tutees round for an evening meal. I don’t really know my tutor as we don’t get lectured by him till the forth year, but he specialises in small animal orthopaedics so in my opinion he’ll no doubt be interesting.
Over the rest of this week it’s DSE, tests and social fun… Our therapeutics DSE is on Thursday, we need a powerpoint presentation and handout completed for that, then on Friday we have a Respiratory Pathology mini-test, not entirely sure where I’m going to find the time to revise for this.
Tomorrow night is the hockey social, always a messy one. As normal it’s meeting at Roo Bar for drinking games then on to Indian Ocean for curries.
Thursday night there’s a vet vs medics vs lawyers pub crawl and on Friday night I might stay in.
On Saturday it’s Half Way Day!! This is being celebrated by a day of paint-balling followed by an evening meal (the attendance figures for the meal are over 80 all from the year, pretty good going me thinks as the years 107).
Tuesday, February 08, 2005
Firstly I apologise for the distinct lack of entries for sometime, this is due to a mid-term holiday, loads of work and a ball!
I arrived back from Switzerland on Thursday night after a wicked 6day break over there with my little bro who’s having a gap year. He’s out there for 4months working in a hotel, where he spends his free time skiing in the Swiz Alps…alright for some. I hadn’t really skied much before, one day in Australia and one in Tamworth snow-dome, but picked it up fairly quickly and managed to keep up with Rich on some red runs. We spent our evenings watching films as was both far to nacked to go out, though we did venture out for one very expensive night with some of Rich’s hotel staff.
Unfortunately as I arrived back late on Thursday I missed the centaur (Bristol’s vet society) elections. This is were a brand new centaur committee is elected each year, usually quite a laugh as people bring loads of alcofrol into the lecture theatre, get hammered and then go out. Positions up for grabs included President, Vice President, Books Rep, Clothing Rep, Ents Reps, Fresh Reps and Sports Rep. All voting is done democratically with home made vids for presidents helping to make up peoples minds. Our new president is Gavindar Panisar, top guy, just have to hope the position doesn’t go to his head… joke Gav if read this.
Friday’s main academic task was a pathology cardiovascular test, this went ok despite the fact that revision was principally done on a plane. Most questions went fine except for the last couple as he started to read out the answers so had to quickly hand it in (very informal these pathology tests though they do only count for 1% each of pathology). Also on Friday we had our last microbiology practical before the DSE sessions began. I managed to polish off my table for this the other night so I’m fully prepared for this Fridays DSE. This involves three unknown micro-organisms which we have to identify using a variety of stains, biochemical tests and practical techniques. Probably the most interesting and fun thing we’ve done this year, makes you feel like a sort of microbiologist detective, or that might just be me?!
Friday evening the house had a quiet one in watching Dogeball, would recommend purely for Stiller’s comedy acting in it!
Over the weekend I spent some time nailing my MircoDSE identification table and copied up the lectures I’d missed by having a half term break. On the Saturday night however I did have something exciting to do as it was the vet2005 ball. This year it was held at the winter gardens hall in Weston and was expertly organised by Hayley, Andy, Louise and Tonia (ents reps). We started out the night at the union bar for a few then all pilled on the bus with much alcohol in hand for the 1hr journey there. The night was a great laugh, nothing especially comical happened apart from Steve trying to break JP for letting a party popper off in his ear and all the injuries that were sustained off the flying carpet (it became apparent on Monday how lethal this thing was as so many people had carpet burns on their face and hands, including myself who has a fair patch of skin missing from my thumb). The speakers were great and the meal delicious, good job ents reps!
This week is fairly busy work wise. We had a hectic day in Langford yesterday, three anaesthesia lectures, 1 radiology and an anaesthesia practical. The practical was ok, got to connect each other up to ECG machines and measure each others blood pressures and blood oxygen saturation. However I think the take home part of the practical was supposed to be working out which anaesthetic breathing system should be used for different animal case studies and what gas flow rates are appropriate (got a good bit of notes on this so no worries).
As for work for the rest of the week we’ve got microbiology most of today and then health and safety this afternoon (can’t imagine this being the most riveting subject, though health and safety is of course important so I shall attend with an open mind?!). Thursday we have two endocrinology pathology lectures to attend followed by another miniDSE test on the subject on Friday, these little tests are well annoying.
I suppose I will also carry on with my ongoing DSE tasks this week, probably had better start on pharmacology DSE before Steve gets more stressed about the groups current lack of effort.
Fun wise for this week… not much until the weekend. We have a footy social on Friday (typical stuff, Kings arms for drink, curry and pool then not onto a club for me as my little sis is arriving the next morning).
Saturday I’m entertaining Hannah (sister), will probably take her ice skating with the Hockey social that is there during the day, then maybe shopping and film or pub in the evening (have to let me know how that sounds Hannie).
PS: First results of the year, microbiology midsessional (15%) managed to get myself an A, crazy stuff I know, but not that impressive as the whole years marks were pretty good (what happens when they give us one exam to revise for over xmas and not four).
I arrived back from Switzerland on Thursday night after a wicked 6day break over there with my little bro who’s having a gap year. He’s out there for 4months working in a hotel, where he spends his free time skiing in the Swiz Alps…alright for some. I hadn’t really skied much before, one day in Australia and one in Tamworth snow-dome, but picked it up fairly quickly and managed to keep up with Rich on some red runs. We spent our evenings watching films as was both far to nacked to go out, though we did venture out for one very expensive night with some of Rich’s hotel staff.
Unfortunately as I arrived back late on Thursday I missed the centaur (Bristol’s vet society) elections. This is were a brand new centaur committee is elected each year, usually quite a laugh as people bring loads of alcofrol into the lecture theatre, get hammered and then go out. Positions up for grabs included President, Vice President, Books Rep, Clothing Rep, Ents Reps, Fresh Reps and Sports Rep. All voting is done democratically with home made vids for presidents helping to make up peoples minds. Our new president is Gavindar Panisar, top guy, just have to hope the position doesn’t go to his head… joke Gav if read this.
Friday’s main academic task was a pathology cardiovascular test, this went ok despite the fact that revision was principally done on a plane. Most questions went fine except for the last couple as he started to read out the answers so had to quickly hand it in (very informal these pathology tests though they do only count for 1% each of pathology). Also on Friday we had our last microbiology practical before the DSE sessions began. I managed to polish off my table for this the other night so I’m fully prepared for this Fridays DSE. This involves three unknown micro-organisms which we have to identify using a variety of stains, biochemical tests and practical techniques. Probably the most interesting and fun thing we’ve done this year, makes you feel like a sort of microbiologist detective, or that might just be me?!
Friday evening the house had a quiet one in watching Dogeball, would recommend purely for Stiller’s comedy acting in it!
Over the weekend I spent some time nailing my MircoDSE identification table and copied up the lectures I’d missed by having a half term break. On the Saturday night however I did have something exciting to do as it was the vet2005 ball. This year it was held at the winter gardens hall in Weston and was expertly organised by Hayley, Andy, Louise and Tonia (ents reps). We started out the night at the union bar for a few then all pilled on the bus with much alcohol in hand for the 1hr journey there. The night was a great laugh, nothing especially comical happened apart from Steve trying to break JP for letting a party popper off in his ear and all the injuries that were sustained off the flying carpet (it became apparent on Monday how lethal this thing was as so many people had carpet burns on their face and hands, including myself who has a fair patch of skin missing from my thumb). The speakers were great and the meal delicious, good job ents reps!
This week is fairly busy work wise. We had a hectic day in Langford yesterday, three anaesthesia lectures, 1 radiology and an anaesthesia practical. The practical was ok, got to connect each other up to ECG machines and measure each others blood pressures and blood oxygen saturation. However I think the take home part of the practical was supposed to be working out which anaesthetic breathing system should be used for different animal case studies and what gas flow rates are appropriate (got a good bit of notes on this so no worries).
As for work for the rest of the week we’ve got microbiology most of today and then health and safety this afternoon (can’t imagine this being the most riveting subject, though health and safety is of course important so I shall attend with an open mind?!). Thursday we have two endocrinology pathology lectures to attend followed by another miniDSE test on the subject on Friday, these little tests are well annoying.
I suppose I will also carry on with my ongoing DSE tasks this week, probably had better start on pharmacology DSE before Steve gets more stressed about the groups current lack of effort.
Fun wise for this week… not much until the weekend. We have a footy social on Friday (typical stuff, Kings arms for drink, curry and pool then not onto a club for me as my little sis is arriving the next morning).
Saturday I’m entertaining Hannah (sister), will probably take her ice skating with the Hockey social that is there during the day, then maybe shopping and film or pub in the evening (have to let me know how that sounds Hannie).
PS: First results of the year, microbiology midsessional (15%) managed to get myself an A, crazy stuff I know, but not that impressive as the whole years marks were pretty good (what happens when they give us one exam to revise for over xmas and not four).
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