Klinische Ausbildung am Patienten

Coloquially called : Quote.
Every day, between 11:oo c.t. (Cum tempore: students' time, i.e 15 minutes later) and 12.45, we have Quote. 2 weeks in each clinic: Horses, Small animals, Kleinklauentiere (little ungulated animals: pigs, goats and sheep), Cattle, Gynecology, Reproduction, Poultry and domisticated birds.
We are in the classroom and they bring in an animal, as a clinical case. They explain who he is, what happened to him, what examinations have been done so far, and ask what we think he has, or what other things we woud do to be able to speak a Diagnosis. ( I am really sorry, but my English is going down, probably eaten out by German who starts invading my overbooked brain. shit! I thought we had billions of unused Neurons!, or maybe I burned them all out, anyways...)
There are quotes which are interesting, but others which are really not! especially at the beginning when we didn't even understand what was wrong with the patient. The problem is that these represent the practical part of the career (apart from the last semester, that is practical), and the large majority of them are absolutely not: they are like a normal class but with a bored animal standing there for two hours and honoring the audience with a poop from time to time, just to cheer us up!
Some clinics are more interesting than others : for example in the poultry quote, we did a section of turkeys and ducks, visited a pilot farm, and handled chickens ( blood probes, different types of injections...)
The difference between a quote and a normal class is that they are more interactive, because at least 2 students (either volunteer, or called personally) go down to the board to do the examination, and also because there isn't any defined program, the case we get depends on which animals they have in the clinic in that moment.
And it is amazing how they make use of every single instruments, endoscope, echograph, etc, everything is of common use in the clinics, without any restrictions. Usually, ther is someone filming with a camera or an endoscope, and it's retransmitted on several screens.They even have cordless headphones so that everyone hears what the examinator hears in his own sthetoscope!
One bad aspect is that in some quotes, we have to write a "Bericht" (= Report) and it's really boring, and time-consuming; but I must admit that with all the research and the work have to do to write it, you end up learning stuff.

RU

These two magic letters stand for Rektaluntersuchung, or in better German: Transrektalepalpation. Translate : Rectal exploration.
That's the Germans favourite part of the examination! Every time we have an animal in the quote, it doesn't matter what disease it is thought he has, wether it is in the eye, the leg or the mouth, they always end up sticking their hand up the ass of the poor thing!