Tag: exams
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Extracurricular activities
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Even for someone like me, who is introverted and has the social skills of the average nerd, university was the most socially active period of my life. Most of my nights were spent with friends – either at the cinema, hanging around at other people’s houses – or at pubs, scavenging for free food in…
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Corporate vet school
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The announcement of a corporate veterinary group’s collaboration with the new Keele University/Harper Adams veterinary school struck a few chords, and seemingly opened a figurative can of worms that (like their literal parasitic counterparts) just doesn’t sit well in my gut. A few points to consider here, the first of which I have written about…
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Learning communities for vets and nurses
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Following on from my previous blog on new vet and vet nurse schools I wanted to write an almost parallel piece about the learning communities we create and the importance of these to our future vets and VNs. What is a learning community? In the strictest sense, a learning community is a group that meets to…
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Two things you probably already knew about pathologists (but I didn’t)
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A few years ago, after spending a decade and a half in general practice and possibly inspired by watching a lot of Quincy, M.E. – when I was too young to know any better (incidentally, does anyone know how old we have to get before we do know better about things? I’d like to be…
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Am I still a new grad?
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I find it hard to believe students from the year below me at vet school received their finals results last week. It doesn’t feel like a year since my friends and I were sailing down the Kelvin for the infamous Glasgow raft race on results day. Well, there was more falling into the river than…
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Beware of practice code breakers
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While highly sought after by intelligence agencies, code breakers in the veterinary world aren’t always as sought after. This is great, as the code of conduct is not there to be broken – it’s an important written guidance and protects the title “veterinary nurse”. Under the section “Veterinary nurses and the profession”, point 3.5 states:…
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Being a millennial vet
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Millennials are stereotypically considered lazy, entitled and always wanting something for nothing. And having previously discussed the many advantages of employing new graduates (and, therefore, millennials), this sort of labelling angers me. The choices our generation makes are not due to lack of work ethic and naiveté about the future, but rather a reflection on…
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Are new grads avoiding OOH?
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With the increasing popularity of outsourcing out-of-hours care to specific emergency centres, today’s new graduates have a very real option to never have to work OOH. While it is often insinuated it would be a good learning experience to at least do some OOH during your veterinary career, many new grads are opting for the…
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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Veterinary practices are businesses. Their purpose is to make money for their owners. I state this clearly, because it’s a truth always felt incongruous. We all have our own reasons for entering the profession, of course, but mine didn’t include owning a business – that aspect of the veterinary world barely crossed my mind –…
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Fake it ‘til you make it
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As a new grad, no matter how much you are told not to worry, you can’t help being aware of what your clients, colleagues, boss, friends and family think of you – and, more specifically, your ability as a vet. Having had a bit of a setback with my first job, I’m past caring what…