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  • Tips for your first month as a new graduate vet

    Tips for your first month as a new graduate vet

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    Your first real day as a vet, stepping through the doors of your practice for the first time, feels like it’s never going to come. But when it does, it’s exciting, its terrifying, it’s surreal and it’s overwhelming – all in one. Your university has likely done all it can to prepare you for these…

  • Taking the register

    Taking the register

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    Dan Amos

    As RVN register renewals appear in our inboxes, my research on the early world of veterinary registration and the accuracy of the paperwork seems as relevant as ever. Registering with the RCVS is a great moment for vets and vet nurses – you’ve gained your qualification and have met the criteria to use the post…

  • Job hunting as a new graduate

    Job hunting as a new graduate

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    Never mind whether you’re in the middle of cramming for your final exams, or recently graduated, applying for your first job as a veterinary surgeon is a daunting task. There’s definitely a pressure that settles on the final year cohort around the new year to be the first one to find a job, or else…

  • Recycling at the heart of things

    Recycling at the heart of things

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    Dan Amos

    As a PhD student you get access to placements that can expand on your skills. Many of these for historians like myself are in archives or publishing but they weren’t really for me. So, when the opportunity to be a researcher for the TV show Horrible Histories came up, I jumped at the chance, and,…

  • 5 things I would tell my vet school self, part 1

    5 things I would tell my vet school self, part 1

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    We all sometimes wish we could go back in time or redo some situations. Often, when looking back with hindsight and more life experience, we wish we could have done things a little differently, or focused our time and energy in a better way. I have been reflecting and, while I am incredibly proud of…

  • Tips for new graduates, part 2

    Tips for new graduates, part 2

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    Following on from last week’s tips for new graduates, here are my final two tips that resonate the most with me in my practice and as a coach. I hope they help with transitioning into practice. Systematic approach In my role as a mentor and coach, one of the most important concepts I instil or…

  • Crossing the finish line

    Crossing the finish line

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    Finishing vet school feels like the end of a race I’ve been running for more than a decade. I don’t remember when exactly I started running it, or if there was ever even a conscious starting point, but it’s incredibly surreal to get to the end of such a long journey – and I’m still…

  • Tips for new graduates, part 1

    Tips for new graduates, part 1

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    A date I will never forget is 6 June. Four years previously on that day I completed the final exam of my master’s degree, marking 11 long and tough years of study. I vowed at that point to never study again, although my love of learning didn’t allow that to last long. Then it was…

  • Life after vet school – graduation: where do I go from here?

    Life after vet school – graduation: where do I go from here?

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    Nothing hits you quite as hard as reality, as you walk out of your final fifth year veterinary exam. Up until this very moment, your life has followed a structured timetable, carefully planned by the veterinary school. Now, with it all finished, who is there to lead you from here onwards? This is probably the…

  • The revision roller coaster

    The revision roller coaster

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    At this stage of the year, it’s hard for me to write about anything but revision. So, for those of you reading this as a means to escape, I can only apologise. At the same time, if your idea of time off from studying is reading my work-related articles, then I think we need to…