Week 3 Day 1

Today was a pretty boring day compared with the past couple weeks.  We started out by listening to some fourth year students present their "teaching cases" which are cases that have come through the hospital in the past however have their diagnoses blocked from the students view so they have to interpret the x-rays.  We then learned how to restrain a dog, cat, and horse for x-rays.  Then, just before lunch I watched a couple animals get x-rayed and went over my fourth year student's teaching cases (we were paired with fourth year students for this rotation.  After lunch we learned how to use a regular x-ray machine, a portable x-ray machine for large animals, and an ultrasound machine.  We wrapped up the day listening to a student present some x-rays from actual cases that are currently in the hospital.  Although there were a few neat things, the day was pretty slow and kind of boring.  Oh well, at least its only a four day week!