Holy Crap!!!

Random writings of the goings on at vet school Down Under
One final down...sooo many more to go. The final was tough as, but I studied very hard so I am hoping I did ok.

An example question:
This autopsy is from an aged German shephard who had a limp for the past 5 months, then developed a cough and died.

Picture is of horrible lookings lungs....

What is the possible pathology of this disease???? Good god, it could be anything by the looks of the lung, but a limp? aged? I will have to say a bone tumor or osteosarcoma that metastisized to the lungs and caused multiple multi-focal to coalescing areas of calcification in the lung parenchyma.

Oh boy....I hope I am right, but hey, I have accomplished alot and it is already time to enroll for second semester of 3rd year...holy crap!

2007/S1	Processes in Animal Disease ( VET340 )	MURDOCH	D	ENROLLED	4.000	**	**	**
2007/S1	Veterinary Pharmacology and Chemotherapy ( VET345 )	MURDOCH	D	ENROLLED	4.000	**	**	**
2007/S1	Veterinary Nutrition and Animal Toxicology ( VET346 )	MURDOCH	D	ENROLLED	4.000	**	**	**
2007/S2	Veterinary Microbiology ( VET341 )	MURDOCH	D	ENROLLED	4.000	**	**	**
2007/S2	Veterinary Applied Pathology and Diagnosis ( VET343 )	MURDOCH	D	ENROLLED	4.000	**	**	**
2007/S2	Veterinary Parasitology ( VET344 )	MURDOCH	D	ENROLLED	4.000	**	**	**
2006/S1	Veterinary Anatomy ( VET240 )	MURDOCH	D	COMPLETED	4.000	51	P	4.000
2006/S1	Veterinary Biochemistry ( VET241 )	MURDOCH	D	COMPLETED	4.000	68	C	4.000
2006/S1	Veterinary Physiology ( VET244 )	MURDOCH	D	COMPLETED	4.000	64	C	4.000
2006/S2	Veterinary Form and Function ( VET243 )	MURDOCH	D	COMPLETED	4.000	54	P	4.000
2006/S2	Animals and Society ( VET246 )	MURDOCH	D	COMPLETED	4.000	67	C	4.000
2006/S2	Veterinary Immunology and Molecular Genetics ( VET247 )	MURDOCH	D	COMPLETED	4.000	51	P	4.000
2005/S2	Animal and Plant Recognition ( BIO157 )	MURDOCH	D	COMPLETED	3.000	74	D	3.000
2005/S2	Introduction to Travel and Tourism ( TOU102 )	MURDOCH	D	DISCONTIN	3.000	-	W0	0.000
2005/S2	Animal and Human Bioethics ( VET106 )	MURDOCH	D	COMPLETED	3.000	77	D	3.000
2005/S2	Topics in Comparative Mammalian Anatomy ( VET108 )	MURDOCH	D	COMPLETED	3.000	60	C	3.000

Anyone Wondering What I Study???

Random writings of the goings on at vet school Down Under

Look at what I am studying

Short Answer Questions (5 marks)
1. Compare transudate, modified transudate and exudate. Give an example of a disease that would be associated with a transudate, modified transudate and exudate.
2. Compare haemorrhage and diapedesis, what processes cause haemorrhage and diapedesis, give an example of a disease characterised by diapedesis and haemorrhage.
3. What is Apoptosis? Briefly contrast the process of apoptosis and necrosis.
4. What is Haemosiderosis? Give examples of lesions in which this process might occur.
5. Cells and tissues vary in their ability to adapt. Using examples, list the features of cells and organs that influence their ability to adapt
6. Discuss the most plausible relationship between the following pathological changes:
Chronic hepatic abscessation, severe, acute epistaxis, hemoptysis and sudden death.
7. Explain the relationship between the administration of corticosteroids and the alleviation of pain and fever.
8. Your good friend is working on a farm during her summer holidays and rings you to tell you about her day helping the farmer kill a sheep to butcher for meat. She tells you they ended up having to kill 2 sheep because when they opened the abdomen of the first sheep there were multiple pale tan-yellow nodules, ranging from 1 to 3cm diameter, occupying 70% of the liver. When the farmer cut into the nodules they had a putty-like consistency in the centre with a firm outer margin. The farmer decided to cut this sheep up for dog meat and kill another sheep for human consumption (which appeared grossly normal).
What pathological process(s) do you think are responsible for the changes in the liver of the first sheep and why? Was it a good idea to feed the sheep with the liver lesions to the dogs and why?
9. Explain the events that occur in the healing of a sutured surgical skin wound caused by a scalpel.
10. What are the possible consequences of disease? Give examples.
11. What is meant by the term functional reserve capacity, give examples.
12. Briefly discuss the following pathological processes, and give examples of where each might occur. (5 marks each)
a. Atrophy
b. Metaplasia
c. Lipofuscinosis
d. Gangrene
e. Metastatic calcification
f. Jaundice
13. What do the terms ‘benign’ and ‘malignant’ mean with respect to neoplasia?
14. What are oncogenes, and how are they related to the development of neoplasia?
15. Using pRb (the retinoblastoma gene product) as an example, outline what is meant by a tumour suppressor gene / protein.
16. How do viruses cause cancer?
17. How do the developmental periods of the fetus differ in their susceptibility to teratogens?
18. Briefly discuss one viral teratogen.
19. Why was thalidomide banned, and why may it now reappear?
20. How may teratogens be classified?
Medium Length Questions (10 marks)
1. Discuss how the immune response influences the development and progression of tuberculosis
2. What is oedema, how does it form, give examples?
3. What are the main cellular, chemical and vascular elements of acute inflammation, discuss in broad terms, how they cause the cardinal signs of acute inflammation?
4. From you knowledge of cellular injury and adaptive responses, briefly explain the meaning the following statement:-
“The normal cell, the adapted cell, the injured cell and the dead cell are hazily delimited states along a continuum of function and structure”
5. Outline how the susceptibility to teratogens of a developing mammal varies with its developmental stage
6. Discuss the prothrombotic and antithrombotic properties of endothelial cells.
7. Discuss the process and purpose of scarring; include in your discussion the consequences of scarring in different organs.
8. Compare and contrast the processes of acute and chronic inflammation. Include in your discussion the elements involved in each process, what determines whether there is an acute or chronic inflammatory response and the physiological effects of acute and chronic inflammation.


Woo hoo and this will be alot like MY final in four weeks....holy #$%^!!!!!

Make it stop!!!

Random writings of the goings on at vet school Down Under

So nothing I am studying about nutrition is sticking. It really wont stick. Have I reached my maximum capacity for information holding in my brain space? If I shove more in....will things I do know and need fall out my ears??? I am beginning to wonder if 9 years is the maximum holding capacity for information for full time study. Its ok...breathe, there must be more room in there.....come on only 2 1/2 more years to go....hmmmm must start forgetting irrelevant things.

Happy note....I love my car, and I had a great meal of lamb and steamed vegetables from work. Going to sleep now, I have all day off tomorrow so I will study till I cant do it anymore and just go for it on Thursday....I did get a credit on my Processes of Animal Diseases test!!! D's and HD's are a thing of dreams for this working gal.....

nighty night

A Day in the Life of This Working Vet Student

Random writings of the goings on at vet school Down Under
What a crazy day....the thing is, I have so many like this, but I thought I would share this one. One thing I do have to say is I GOT A CAR FINALLY!!! Last week I got myself a little roller skate. It is a Toyota Starlet and I love it. This little silver bullet has already been named Coors by my friend Courtney. I will post pics and talk more about it very soon

Ok the day started with me waking up at 7:30 even though the alarm was set for 6:30. You see, on Sunday I worked all day and then studied till really late and finished my pathology report. My brain was mush so I set the alarm, but forgot to turn it ON...minor detail.

Feed dog...sprint to shower...proceed to run around in the shower cursing because it is either scalding hot or freeezing cold, jump out while going past kitchen, stop and throw water on stove to boil. Get ready in .2 seconds while printing out the days lectures. Run to kitchen, throw lunch together while shoving breakfast in face...pour boiling water in cup to make green tea...boiling water is hot ...note to self dont drink right away. Oops!

Throw everything in car, continue shoving food in face and very excited because I can listen to whatever music I want...woo hoo, run to class. 8:30-9:30 is Pharmacology. Realize I have not purchased the second reader for the course and the next exam on Monday, is on the material in this reader. Class ends...run to bookstore in the rain. Search everywhere for reader, it is not there so must order it and I sure hope it is in by Wednesday. 10:30-11:30 time for Nutrition and Toxicology, lack of sleep starting to catch up ....oooh dog nutrition and calculations Must stay awake, but just cant do it...wake up in time for next class which is Processes of Animal Disease....it is a review of the midterm we just had...hmmmm did not do as well as I thought, but I passed. Oh look, a break at 12:30 , or is it. Go to the Common Room and stare into space while shoving a sandwich in my face and then off to the library to print off more notes and study Nutrition. We have another midterm on Thursday ...this will be Antioxidants, Metabolic Diseases, Pig, Llama, Cattle, and Dog Nutrition...Ration Formulation...and I am sure I am forgetting something. So from 1-2:30 I try and fill my brain with as much of this information as possible. 2:30 is time for Pathology workshop. This is where each group of six is given a gross image and a slide and we have to say the pathological changes we observe in front of the class...this class takes FOREVER AND EVER. We finally get out at 4:30, just in time for traffic, but I dont care because I am driving my new car The only reason I care is because I have to be at work at six.

Run through the door and jump in shower...run around cursing again because the shower SUCKS!!!! Jump out run by kitchen and throw fish sticks on George Foreman grill...give Keaton a hug and a carrot. Try to get ready in record time....must be very presentable as the Dockers are in for dinner and there is a cocktail party of 60....yuck! Burn dinner, but make good salad to make up for burnt fish, sit down for 15 minutes to enjoy. Feed dog ...go to work.

Proceed to put on fake smile and walk around with plates of finger food for cocktail party for the next four hours...9:30 rolls around, and they are all toasted. Finally they start leaving and we have to bring in all the tables from outside and reset everything for the next day...help move massive amounts of tables and chairs, polish countless glasses and cutlery...pull shoulder out when lifting ...ouch, it is killing me. 10:30 pm.....home, and cant sleep because of coffee at work. Should be studying, but brain is mush. Going to go lie in bed and stare at ceiling and pray for sleep because I have another big day tomorrow.

How I have done this for the past 9 years or more, I have no clue...it is tough, but it could be worse, and my brother could probably beat me with his stories of working and studying. Supposedly it will all pay off in the end.....oh how I cant wait for the day when all I have to worry about is just uni....or all I have to worry about is just work....I guess I will keep dreaming, and I have a car, so apparently that will make everything better. Thursday after the test will be sooooo much better. Friday we are having our annual Cinco De Mayo party which will be awesome...I do have another test on Monday and a paper due on the next Friday, but I am not thinking about that..Take it one at a time.....one at a time.....