Tag: exams
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The third year slump
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I never really worried about signing up for a five-year course; friends would gasp at the prospect, but I’d always laugh it off for a multitude of reasons. If I’m being honest, the part of me worried about leaving the security of secondary school was quite happy to have a set plan for the next…
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Who runs the world?
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Toward the end of my first year at university, a friend of mine stumbled upon a funny online student-made list of “things NOT to expect at vet school”. From memory, I think it included things we all related to such as Christmas holidays (curse you, exams), summer holidays (why, EMS, why?) and “a coolness status…
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You got a friend in me
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Over the past three years, I’ve found one of the hardest parts about revising at home over the holidays isn’t actually the fact you’re revising at home, but that you’re not revising back at university. Now let me explain, because I know it sounds odd… Why would anyone not want to go home for the…
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Balancing health with a busy schedule
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When it comes to a course as busy and hectic as veterinary medicine, it can be easy to let certain things slide – especially around exam time. There’s the occasional group event, the odd party and, of course, the big one – a healthy lifestyle. I know from experience that when the grind really sets…
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Why you can – and should – be a mentor
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The benefits of having a mentor – someone who has walked the path you are travelling and is happy to share with you what they have learned to make your journey a little easier – are invaluable and indisputable. But they don’t simply appear out of thin air. Someone has to step up and take…
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Mid-sessionals – the dos and don’ts
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Right now, a lot of vet students are heading towards their first mid-sessional exams – the first university level exams the majority of them will ever have experienced. The rest of us have mid-sessionals, too, off course, and while we no longer have the luxury of ignorance and the bliss it comes with, these are…
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A different kind of exam
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A veterinary career and examinations go hand in hand. I can’t count the number of papers I’ve sat over the last quarter of my life that have opened the doors to where I am now. If you manage to make it even half way through the vet course it can be assumed you have mastered…
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Lack of diversity in the veterinary profession is everyone’s problem
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It is heartening to see the need for diversity in the profession getting some airtime and column inches of late. Discussion of the issue is long overdue, but has this led to progress? Let’s be frank. Look around you – in your vet school class, your workplace, your boardroom and your practice. I’m going to…
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Tips for vet school: the first few days
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The first few weeks of university life can be a little scary, and it’s understandable you might just want to hang back to try and digest it all. Trying to be outgoing, charming and outlandishly sociable when you’ve just been thrust into a new city, a new environment, and left to fend for yourself can…
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AFAST, part 1
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AFAST = Abdominal Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma In the emergency setting, focused ultrasound examinations are increasingly being used as extensions of the physical examination. The goal is the identification of life-threatening conditions – such as internal bleeding or organ rupture – but can also assist in tracking conditions over a period of time.…