FOOT IN MOUTH DISEASE

Submitted by Tuuli Overturf, Cornell University

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Montclair, New Jersey – Veterinary school is known to be one of the most challenging and demanding professional programs in existence. Mental health issues have a concern in the profession, especially with the younger generation.  In fact, according to a 2011 study by Kansas State University, veterinary medicine students are also more likely to struggle with mental health issues than their human medicine counterparts, with more than one out of three students showing signs of depression during their first year. 

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Life as a Vet School Dog

These adorable photos were submitted by Skylare Smith from North Carolina State University! Her dog is showing off the knowledge learned throughout the three years in the classroom.

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Kestrel Boxes, or Why I Continue To Choose Experience: A First Year Story

Nikki Becich - Tufts

V:50 I:4 Experiences Honorable Mention

Everyone’s been there.

You’re stressed out on a regular Thursday afternoon. You have exactly 217 textbook pages you’d like to review before you even -look- at the end-chapter review questions you KNOW are going to be on the written part of the exam. You haven’t slept much because you’re on call for Large or Small animal tech team, or you got up early for baby care team at the Wildlife Clinic, and you went to those dinner talks and learned about Veterinarians in the Army, got your VBMA credits, and now you’re here. The exam is tomorrow. Your undergraduate A-complex conscience is chewing you out for your irresponsible behavior and irreverence of the educational system you’re paying for the privilege of being a part of…

And you get an email.

The State Ornithologist is on campus, and we know you love birds! Would you have time to walk campus with him while he stakes out the best location to place Kestrel nest boxes…for an hour or two? Just an hour or two.

You may not have pulled that A, or even that B, in this class’s last exam. You could get through a decent amount of material in these next few hours. You aren’t struggling with the material, though. Your grades are fine. Not exceptional, but fine. What do you say?

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Our Freshman Year of Vet School….A year in review

Winner, Foot in Mouth Category
Courtney Butts, Florida State University

They say, “Hindsight is 20/20.”
Well, looking back on our first year of vet school is anything but pretty.
We started the year off naïve, excited, and ready to take on the world.
But, after that first day in gross anatomy I thought, “I’m definitely going to hurl.”
The lectures kept coming and the material was overflowing,
We thought, “How can we manage all of this?”, but we just kept going.

We learned origins, insertions, innervations and blood supplies,
We memorized PDA, PCR, and millions of histology slides.
We overcame lecture after lecture and anatomy practicals galore,
White cells and red cells and T-cells and more.
Classes like Molecular Biology had us asking, “What was the point of this class?”
While Embryology made us say, “It was truly a miracle that I even passed.”

Then came our first hell week of many that year,
After immunology, ophthalmology, and endocrinology we thought we were in the clear.
We thought it would all be downhill until winter break and that we had reached our peak,
Oh, but wait kids, you still have Neurology to try to learn in four weeks.
The pain was so terrible, but we finished it somehow,
We actually finished our first semester!! It’s time to relax meow!

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