I wonder about medical school. What is it like? Is it like vet school in any way? Could I get in? (I checked the requirements and have them but would have to retake the MCAT. But I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be accepted, BS and DVM included.)
I don't understand the whole internship thing...I think that you graduate but then are required to do an internship while after vet school, you graduate and then practice. An internship is optional after vet school.
I don't know if you get patients or even to get much role in diagnosis, testing, treatment, etc before you're an intern. Maybe someone out there can answer this.
I do know that in some medical schools you can fail a class and just have to retake it while in vet school, you get kicked out. And may or may not be allowed back in.
I find it scary that this time next year I will be essentially ready to graduate and thus ready to practice. I'm pretty sure that no matter what, I may not be ready. I might surprise myself I guess.
I was really more thinking about med school lately because since I am on clinical pathology, I get to view the hospital essentially from the outside. I see everyone run around frantically and talk to them but don't have to do it nor worry about it. And I just wonder if med school is like that. (I guess some of it would depend on how much students get involved in cases.) At vet school, everyone looks so stressed and frantic-students and clinicians alike. Everyone looks so self important in their dress clothes, white coats and talking on cell phones. (I'm not saying that I don't do the same, but looking in from the outside is very different.) The nice thing about vet school versus med school, I guess is that at least you can have a break from self-importance and go downstairs, put on some blue coveralls and relax.
I don't remember what my point was for this blog. Something about self important looking people at school, I imagine.
PS-I got to cuddle some 8 week old golden retriver puppies today. They were super cute! And alive!
[EDIT-Originally published to Blogger on May 31, 2011]
I don't understand the whole internship thing...I think that you graduate but then are required to do an internship while after vet school, you graduate and then practice. An internship is optional after vet school.
I don't know if you get patients or even to get much role in diagnosis, testing, treatment, etc before you're an intern. Maybe someone out there can answer this.
I do know that in some medical schools you can fail a class and just have to retake it while in vet school, you get kicked out. And may or may not be allowed back in.
I find it scary that this time next year I will be essentially ready to graduate and thus ready to practice. I'm pretty sure that no matter what, I may not be ready. I might surprise myself I guess.
I was really more thinking about med school lately because since I am on clinical pathology, I get to view the hospital essentially from the outside. I see everyone run around frantically and talk to them but don't have to do it nor worry about it. And I just wonder if med school is like that. (I guess some of it would depend on how much students get involved in cases.) At vet school, everyone looks so stressed and frantic-students and clinicians alike. Everyone looks so self important in their dress clothes, white coats and talking on cell phones. (I'm not saying that I don't do the same, but looking in from the outside is very different.) The nice thing about vet school versus med school, I guess is that at least you can have a break from self-importance and go downstairs, put on some blue coveralls and relax.
I don't remember what my point was for this blog. Something about self important looking people at school, I imagine.
PS-I got to cuddle some 8 week old golden retriver puppies today. They were super cute! And alive!
[EDIT-Originally published to Blogger on May 31, 2011]
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