Next two exams are over… Basic clinical science and BCS research.
Research went well, though it’s only worth 10% so it’s not the greatest of achievements. However it may help to boost my marks if the main BCS exam scores poorly. This exam involved designing a study, I chose one on bitch obesity post spay. Managed to right ridiculous amounts, though majority of it was nonsense I’m sure.
As for the main BCS exam worth 60%, things went ok. We had to answer 12 compulsory questions, allowing 12mins per question. Topics included diarrhoea, thrombocytopenia (decreased blood platelets), removal of gas from anaesthetic machines, causes of ascites in dogs, legislation involving the misuse of dogs and numerous other exciting topics. I managed to write something for all the questions, so will now just have to wait and see.
Tomorrow is pharmacology, so it’s back to the grind stone for me, a place I don’t feel I’ve really left for the past month, but then that’s what this course is all about… a third term revision night-mare… Chin up though few days and it’s holiday time, ideal!!
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Friday, May 27, 2005
First exam over… Microbiology. Had to answer two questions out of four on bacteria and two out of four on viruses. Didn’t go too bad, managed to produce a fairly good answer for three of my essays though the last one was a bit of a disaster. Hopefully the other three will pull it up to a pass mark, will see…
For bacteria I wrote an essay on tetanus and strangles in horses and one on TB and Johne’s Disease in cattle.
For viruses I wrote an essay on Scrapie disease in sheep and attempted one on Bovine syncitial virus. This was quite a major disaster, as I couldn’t remember the key points of the replication cycle let alone the indepth answer required. Though as the other 3 went well I’m sure I’ll be ok. Plus I can afford to fail it slightly as my marks for the mid-sessional exam are strong.
For bacteria I wrote an essay on tetanus and strangles in horses and one on TB and Johne’s Disease in cattle.
For viruses I wrote an essay on Scrapie disease in sheep and attempted one on Bovine syncitial virus. This was quite a major disaster, as I couldn’t remember the key points of the replication cycle let alone the indepth answer required. Though as the other 3 went well I’m sure I’ll be ok. Plus I can afford to fail it slightly as my marks for the mid-sessional exam are strong.
Saturday, May 14, 2005
Crazy times at the mo, so much stuff is on/been on that I’ve hardly had time to sit down and write one of these entries, but then that’s what the third term tends to be like.
It’s quite hard to know where to start as it’s been too long since I made an entry. I suppose the best start would be to talk about the awesome first two weeks of term I had after my pathology exam (of which we still haven’t had the results back). During this time we had lectures and therefore I didn’t feel at all inclined to start revising. Instead time was heavily invested in plenty of drinking and socialising. This included a few nights clubbing, some quality house parties, a bit of sport, a gig and a trip up North.
Nothing particularly special happened as far as nights out is concerned, though we did have one quite amusing night when a big group of us had a “punch-off” party. The story behind this is that we all fancied a cheaper alternative night, so 15ish of us made four teams of different colours and each made a punch of their colour to see who could make the best/most interesting punch. Mat, Hayley and Me made up the yellow team, our punch consisting of… gin/vodka/cider/banana lacquer/southern comfort/lemon jelly/lemon lacquer/lemon squash and concentrated lemon juice. The outcome was actually fairly tasty though ridiculously potent. All punch was consumed throughout the many drinking games, and those that were up for it went off to the Wedge. Me and Mat were bit too drunk so got food and played Mario Cart (ultra cool!).
A really good night during this time was a Futureheads gig Me, Mat and JP went to. I spent most of the night on the barrier and ended up absolutely minging and wet through. T-shirt purchasing was compulsory to replace the horrific top I was sporting.
Another good night was the Vet Hockey Social. This began with the elections for next year’s captains. As there were only two entries and two positions, choice wasn’t difficult. Though it still had to be accompanied by the compulsory boat races and drinking games. After elections it was on to the Sultans for a curry. This was fairly messy as one of the old captains decided to re-decorate the side of the curry house (indoors). After the curry I walked Sinead home and for the first time ever watched some sex-in-the-city. My excuse as ever was alcohol!
The last big night out during this time was a trip up to Skipton to attend Hayley’s Granddad’s rugby ball. Very good of the guy to pay for me to go to this, and I had a pretty good night.
Sport wise over the first week or two included a couple of football matches and the battle of the fridges sports day. Footy was all about staying in the cup (as we messed up the league ages ago). We had one really big match to avoid knock out and unbelievable went out on penalties! The weather was horrific and the team we were playing were brutal to say the least. Thank god we had a ref, if not the game definitely would have got messy. Last time we played them, one of our team members ended up punched in the head. We only lost by one penalty, so the match was a bit disappointing!
The battle of the fridges sporting afternoon is a time for all vet sport teams to play one another at each sport with the chance of winning the ultimate price in sporting achievement… the vet sports cool box (obviously couldn’t afford a fridge). Football came second, it was neck and neck with Hockey until we lost to Netball at Netball… so ashamed.
Work over the beginning of term was fairly dull, as usual. We had two 1% DSE test for pathology, of which the results will be very interesting! These were on the genital tract and the urinary system. They didn’t even give us a chance to revise for the urinary one as they put the test on the same day as the lectures (because obviously I’d have put immense amounts of time and effort into revising for it otherwise).
Lectures have been all on 4th year syllabus this term. This includes veterinary public health lectures (the dullest course possible), a few goat lectures, a few sheep lectures and some companion animal science cat reproduction lectures. A fairly bizarre lecture on the subject of cat sex, encompassing many amusing photos (no need to explain).
The most interesting work related thing timetabled was a day of communication skills. This involved getting into groups of 5/6 and acting out various consultation room scenarios. The uni had actors in for us to converse with, which I found really good as the actors made the scenarios very realistic. My scenario was about a man who I had to speak to about the condition of his poisoned puppy. With the main aim of the conversation to be that I discover what the puppy had consumed.
The other day the whole year had to have a medical check up to get our certificates to enable us to work in an abattoir. This was fairly straight forward, tick some boxes to say that all is well and the doctor signs it. However what I found fairly amusing is that John ticked the diarrhoea for more than 24hr box and subsequently has had to provide a faecal sample.
Recently I’ve spent most of my time at home in Derby getting some revision done. I find working in the garden with a bit of sunshine by far the place to get my head down, though I doubt the weather will last. I came back home on Saturday mainly to be here for my mate Rob’s 21st on Monday. For this a big group went out into Derby. It was a fairly good night until we left Walkabout (after much drinking and karaoke) to go to a club of which most of the group was already in. Unfortunately one of us didn’t have the ID required which ended up in a heated bouncer argument and consequently the bouncers phoned round the other clubs and gave them our description (I have a strong dislike of bouncers). After getting food we tried to sweet talk the Zanzibar bouncers round, but no luck. During this time we got into some heated arguments with some guys, which culminated in the police turning up and an obese guy lying naked in spar door way, definitely a very random night!
A much better night was last night’s barn dance back in Bristol. I took down my bro and 3 of our mates for the wild west occasion. As always the barn dance delivered. I think when everyone has so much revision stress and are all dressed up as cowpersons you can’t fail to go a bit crazy. Best things of the night were attractive 1st years, Tom telling a vet nurse that he was a vet (he’s studying business) and that vet nurses are just non-intellectual vets (as many vet nurses have the opinion that vets are a bit arrogant, I doubt Tom helped matters), Mat shaving of his friends brow, going crazy in the play area, stealing a watering can and getting in plenty of ridiculous country dancing.
Right now I’m in Derby and it’s where I’m staying to hopefully get on with some essential revision. Best think about being at home is that there’s little distractions, I don’t have to cook and I’m saving loads of money.
Upcoming there’s well revision, and hopefully lots more revision… if all goes to plan. Exams this year are Microbiology, Basic Clinical Science and Pharmacology all around the end of May/beginning of June. I do have things to look forward to though, mainly a holiday in Morocco, more about this at a later time.
Now I thing I’ve made up for the lack of entries and I’m going to go to bed as I’m tired.
It’s quite hard to know where to start as it’s been too long since I made an entry. I suppose the best start would be to talk about the awesome first two weeks of term I had after my pathology exam (of which we still haven’t had the results back). During this time we had lectures and therefore I didn’t feel at all inclined to start revising. Instead time was heavily invested in plenty of drinking and socialising. This included a few nights clubbing, some quality house parties, a bit of sport, a gig and a trip up North.
Nothing particularly special happened as far as nights out is concerned, though we did have one quite amusing night when a big group of us had a “punch-off” party. The story behind this is that we all fancied a cheaper alternative night, so 15ish of us made four teams of different colours and each made a punch of their colour to see who could make the best/most interesting punch. Mat, Hayley and Me made up the yellow team, our punch consisting of… gin/vodka/cider/banana lacquer/southern comfort/lemon jelly/lemon lacquer/lemon squash and concentrated lemon juice. The outcome was actually fairly tasty though ridiculously potent. All punch was consumed throughout the many drinking games, and those that were up for it went off to the Wedge. Me and Mat were bit too drunk so got food and played Mario Cart (ultra cool!).
A really good night during this time was a Futureheads gig Me, Mat and JP went to. I spent most of the night on the barrier and ended up absolutely minging and wet through. T-shirt purchasing was compulsory to replace the horrific top I was sporting.
Another good night was the Vet Hockey Social. This began with the elections for next year’s captains. As there were only two entries and two positions, choice wasn’t difficult. Though it still had to be accompanied by the compulsory boat races and drinking games. After elections it was on to the Sultans for a curry. This was fairly messy as one of the old captains decided to re-decorate the side of the curry house (indoors). After the curry I walked Sinead home and for the first time ever watched some sex-in-the-city. My excuse as ever was alcohol!
The last big night out during this time was a trip up to Skipton to attend Hayley’s Granddad’s rugby ball. Very good of the guy to pay for me to go to this, and I had a pretty good night.
Sport wise over the first week or two included a couple of football matches and the battle of the fridges sports day. Footy was all about staying in the cup (as we messed up the league ages ago). We had one really big match to avoid knock out and unbelievable went out on penalties! The weather was horrific and the team we were playing were brutal to say the least. Thank god we had a ref, if not the game definitely would have got messy. Last time we played them, one of our team members ended up punched in the head. We only lost by one penalty, so the match was a bit disappointing!
The battle of the fridges sporting afternoon is a time for all vet sport teams to play one another at each sport with the chance of winning the ultimate price in sporting achievement… the vet sports cool box (obviously couldn’t afford a fridge). Football came second, it was neck and neck with Hockey until we lost to Netball at Netball… so ashamed.
Work over the beginning of term was fairly dull, as usual. We had two 1% DSE test for pathology, of which the results will be very interesting! These were on the genital tract and the urinary system. They didn’t even give us a chance to revise for the urinary one as they put the test on the same day as the lectures (because obviously I’d have put immense amounts of time and effort into revising for it otherwise).
Lectures have been all on 4th year syllabus this term. This includes veterinary public health lectures (the dullest course possible), a few goat lectures, a few sheep lectures and some companion animal science cat reproduction lectures. A fairly bizarre lecture on the subject of cat sex, encompassing many amusing photos (no need to explain).
The most interesting work related thing timetabled was a day of communication skills. This involved getting into groups of 5/6 and acting out various consultation room scenarios. The uni had actors in for us to converse with, which I found really good as the actors made the scenarios very realistic. My scenario was about a man who I had to speak to about the condition of his poisoned puppy. With the main aim of the conversation to be that I discover what the puppy had consumed.
The other day the whole year had to have a medical check up to get our certificates to enable us to work in an abattoir. This was fairly straight forward, tick some boxes to say that all is well and the doctor signs it. However what I found fairly amusing is that John ticked the diarrhoea for more than 24hr box and subsequently has had to provide a faecal sample.
Recently I’ve spent most of my time at home in Derby getting some revision done. I find working in the garden with a bit of sunshine by far the place to get my head down, though I doubt the weather will last. I came back home on Saturday mainly to be here for my mate Rob’s 21st on Monday. For this a big group went out into Derby. It was a fairly good night until we left Walkabout (after much drinking and karaoke) to go to a club of which most of the group was already in. Unfortunately one of us didn’t have the ID required which ended up in a heated bouncer argument and consequently the bouncers phoned round the other clubs and gave them our description (I have a strong dislike of bouncers). After getting food we tried to sweet talk the Zanzibar bouncers round, but no luck. During this time we got into some heated arguments with some guys, which culminated in the police turning up and an obese guy lying naked in spar door way, definitely a very random night!
A much better night was last night’s barn dance back in Bristol. I took down my bro and 3 of our mates for the wild west occasion. As always the barn dance delivered. I think when everyone has so much revision stress and are all dressed up as cowpersons you can’t fail to go a bit crazy. Best things of the night were attractive 1st years, Tom telling a vet nurse that he was a vet (he’s studying business) and that vet nurses are just non-intellectual vets (as many vet nurses have the opinion that vets are a bit arrogant, I doubt Tom helped matters), Mat shaving of his friends brow, going crazy in the play area, stealing a watering can and getting in plenty of ridiculous country dancing.
Right now I’m in Derby and it’s where I’m staying to hopefully get on with some essential revision. Best think about being at home is that there’s little distractions, I don’t have to cook and I’m saving loads of money.
Upcoming there’s well revision, and hopefully lots more revision… if all goes to plan. Exams this year are Microbiology, Basic Clinical Science and Pharmacology all around the end of May/beginning of June. I do have things to look forward to though, mainly a holiday in Morocco, more about this at a later time.
Now I thing I’ve made up for the lack of entries and I’m going to go to bed as I’m tired.
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