The diary of Chris Allen through his vet student years.
So this morning we did our anaesthesia and immobilisation workshop, unfortunately there were no procedures required in the marine mammals so we got a wild horse instead that needed x-rays and hoof trimming. Slightly disappointed but a great speaker and Continue reading Under the skin when things go wrong in marine mammals
Today’s Diary Entry is sponsored by Pets Bureau For those that don’t know what embryology is; it is the growth of an animal after fertilisation of an egg (ovum) by sperm (or in the case of some species self-fertilisation). The Continue reading The start of Veterinary Embryology… (Day 218)
Today’s Diary Entry is sponsored by Pet Hooligans Working With Animals Series Ok so I’ve decided that instead of speaking about everything everyday I’ve decided that I am going try and focus on one topic each day to keep it Continue reading Talking testes, the histology of the male reproductive tract (Day 190)
Today’s Diary Entry is sponsored by Pet Webinars Well today was the first of 3 credit tests I am sitting this week (tomorrow I have physiology, and Wednesday I have anatomy). It’s definitely looking like it will be a long Continue reading Histology of the urinary tract (Day 183)
Today’s Diary Entry is sponsored by Find Pet Boarding Through the past semester I’ve come to realise that though the subjects are taught seperately that they are intrinsically linked. We’ve just finished the function of the digestive system in physiology Continue reading The salivary glands of the digestive tract… (Day 169)
Today’s Diary Entry is sponsored by Find Pet Boarding Start of my second week of my second semester, last week vanished in a blur and this week I have tried to plan my time better to get a lot more Continue reading Histology of the complex ruminant stomach (Day 162)
Today’s Diary Entry is sponsored by Supreme Pet Foods The new semester started today with Histology and Physiology (same as last semesters Monday timetable) and it was as if Christmas hadn’t got in the middle at all. This mornings histology Continue reading The start of my second semester… (Day 155)
Todays Diary Entry is sponsored by: YOUR BUSINESS HERE Something that has been my mantra of vet school so far is it is the quantity of information that I have needed to learn rather than the complexity (jinxed myself for Continue reading 13 Weeks of Vet School… (Day 117)
This morning one of my classmates had a exploratory dental scheduled for her cat (you might have seen him on my Twitter feed when I was catsitting). Over the past 10 days I’ve spent a lot of time with this Continue reading Some surgery and the results of Latin… (Day 65)
As I missed histology yesterday I rescheduled to take my credit test today, whilst I didn’t originally feel that I had done well, I got a C in the written part and a B in the practical part. I was Continue reading Histology Credit and the science behind the ELISA test… (Day 64)