It seems so odd to be planning my life so far ahead of time, but at the same time, it's a little satisfying. I submitted my schedule, and I'm pretty sure it'll be finalized in it's current state. I've taken time off for my two rides, and I think I have a pretty good balance of time off, hard rotations, and easy rotations. It breaks down as follows (warning: long):
Week 1, 2: Vacation! (Fandango ride and our first ride goal)
Week 3-6: Student Initiated Professional Experience - I'm going to do it at my cat clinic in Boise.
Week 7, 8: Small Animal Referral Medicine (Hard-ish rotation with lots of late nights and patient care)
Week 9, 10: Equine Medicine (Semi-tough)
Week 11-14: Vacation!! (Goal: Pink Flamingo multi day!)
Week 15, 16: Primary Care Addition - If they don't need me, I'll get this as an additional 2 weeks of vacation. That rarely happens, so I'm not holding my breath.
Week 17, 18: Small Animal Clinical Neurology (Read: Hemilaminectomy galore on Dachshunds) :P
Week 19, 20: Clinical Cardiology - Although I have NO interest in Cardiology, I've heard this is an interesting and very low-key rotation with minimal patient care and late hours.
Week 21, 22: Equine Surgery - HARD, HARD, HARD. Long hours, lots of high-stress quizzing from clinicians, not much sitting time and/or sleep, but should be interesting.
Week 23, 24: Small Animal Community Practice - Can be really tough, but can be really interesting and fun. I'm looking forward to this one especially.
Week 25, 26: Agricultural Animal - This rotation was made an elective for this year, but it's always fascinating, and Dr. Parish is one of the coolest vets I know. Should be low-stress, home-by-five kind of days with patient care, but very low-key.
Week 27, 28: Emergency and Critical Care (Large Animal) - I have no idea what this one entails, but I imagine it's overnights and being on-call a lot. :P
Week 29, 30: VACATION! It just happened to work out I had time during Thanksgiving.
Week 31, 32: Small Animal Orthopedic Surgery - Read: Carpentry. I made a huge mistake last week of asking the head orthopedic surgeon if he did much orthopedic surgery. I had thought he was soft-tissue, and he's got an ego the size of Texas. No bonus points there, Elly!
Week 33: Holiday Vacation! Christmas!
Week 34: Holiday ON-DUTY (Who knows what I'll be doing...it depends on what they need!)
Week 35, 36: Clinical Pathology - I need LOTS more practice in this area, and there's no patient care and they work set hours!
Week 37, 38: Small Animal Soft Tissue Surgery - I've heard this is the hardest rotation of fourth year. Lots of long hours, lots of patient care, etc, etc.
Week 39-42: Anesthesia and Small Animal ICU. This is four weeks of Anesthesia (EASY!) and one of SA ICU overnights (NOT EASY!).
Week 43-46: Diagnostics. This is a hard rotation to get, as it's in high demand. Tons of necropsies, days start at 9 or later, and you're out of the lab by 6. No patient care!
Week 47-50: Guided Preceptorship. I'm doing this at Willowcreek Equine Hospital, mostly because it's 20 minutes South of my parent's house in Portland, OR. It'll be kinda fun to move back in with Mom and Dad a mere month before graduation!
Week 51, 52: Diagnostic Imaging Services. No patient care!
May 8th, 2010: GRADUATION!!!!
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