Obstacle Course
Overview: None at this time.
Rules
Teams will consist of five people (one team per school), with each person performing one of the five tasks. A baton will be passed upon completion of each task and the next person cannot start until they receive the baton. A maximum time period will be established for each task. If the event is not completed within that time period, the person must move on. The list of events follows:
- Pull-A-Calf:
Honing in on the obstetrics skills of every practitioner, this is a little more like a game of go fish. All you have to do is pull the calf out of the cow. To make it a little more challenging, you’ll need to keep you species straight, pulling a dog out doesn’t count, neither does a horse, only when you’ve pulled out the correct animal are you allowed to move on. - Lost instrument:
The most valuable skill a surgeon develops is fishing out a dropped instrument from the abdomen of their patient. The rules are simple; gown, glove and dig in to locate and recover your lost surgery instrument. We don’t want to leave anything in there as a nidus for infection. - Drunken surgery:
It has happened to everyone, that four in the morning phone call requiring an immediate emergency surgery. Unfortunately you’ve spent the night out on the town and celebrated a little too hard. Wanna know what it feels like? You will after you’ve spun around with your head on a bat, donned a pair of OB sleeves and are attempting to thread a needle. - Hay bale roll:
Out on a farm call? Hay bales are like duct tape; they have a number of uses; surgery tables, barriers, stepladders etc. The only trick is you gotta be able to move them from point A to point B. Brawn helps on this one, but any smart veterinary student should be able to figure it out. - Hoppity-Horse race:
Performing a lameness exam on a horse? After conquering this course your patient should come out perfectly sound. You on the other hand, well… that depend on your inflatable horsemanship skills.
