I finished my first rotation! Surgery and anesthesia was definitely a great way to start off third year and I feel much more confident moving forwards. It was nice to get a review on how to monitor for ansthesia and the drug lectures were really helpful. I got to do a lot of different kinds of surgeries and ultimately help my patients get adopted, so that felt great. It was nice to see how far I'd come in just two weeks. My first surgery was a scrotal ablation and, while I knew how to do it, I paused between every step to check in with the surgeon and make sure I was doing okay. My last surgery was an ovariectomy and I just kept going, even with her peeking over my shoulder.

Next, I have my clinical pathology rotation which is supposed to be another really great rotation. I'm a little worried to be sitting down and looking at histopath and cytology slides all day long because it's not my forte but I'm sure it'll be extremely helpful in the long run.

It's been awhile...

Yeah, so I'm bad at this blogging thing. I'm now a big bad third year entering rotations so I don't know how often I'll be able to update this, but I'll try!

I was actually reminded about this blog by a current first year. Weird, right? Apparently he'd read my blog back when I actually updated it and still had red hair. Kind of funny to be recognized that way and kind of cool to realize that someone actually reads this!

Second year was great, but I'm very glad it's done. I got pretty tired of the PBL process by the end of it. The tiredness mainly stemmed from people insisting on discussing a specific topic for 30 minutes to 1 hour when I knew it wouldn't be on the exam or wouldn't be something important to the typical new grad. But, I made it and I'm moving on up!

I spent the summer working on a research project and scrubbed in and assisted on over a hundred surgeries which was definitely an amazing experience. It's already made me so much more comfortable to enter clinics this year.

I'm on my surgery and anesthesia rotation at the shelter at the moment. Monday was just orientation and CPR basics and then today was some testing in order to clear us for surgery (I got cleared, yay! One of the DVMs even said we should talk about residencies, which definitely made me feel awesome) and then we had an anesthesia lecture in the afternoon for a few hours. I thought talking about drugs for four hours would be really draining, but I actually really enjoyed it!

Tomorrow, I'm doing a neuter with scrotal ablation, assisting on a spay, and playing anesthetist for a neuter. Should be fun!