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  • CPD in the sun?

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    I’m revisiting the eternal question of how to achieve 45 hours of CPD over the course of three years. One of my previous blog posts named vet specialist sites offering free and low-cost CPD and is worth a look, but more recently I have been exploring the world of MOOCs (massive open online courses). Simply…

  • The wrong trousers

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    Utilitarian. That’s my ethical outlook, apparently. Participants in the A-FAVP.1 module of the CertAVP have to analyse their ethical stance by answering a questionnaire, and that’s what I came up as: utilitarian. I was surprised by the word. It’s not one I’d use to describe my attitudes, but apparently my main focus is on the…

  • CPD and “Death by PowerPoint”

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    Over the next couple of years I have a full plate; the postgraduate degree I’m doing culminates in a six month project and dissertation, and I’m starting a CertAVP. I’ve always enjoyed CPD because it’s part social, part learning, new things you can put in to practice. My degree is done with didactic lectures at…

  • Exotics and the last-gasp presentation

    Exotics and the last-gasp presentation

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    For the first part of my career my “special interest”, and something I became gradually better known for, was exotics. However, in my first jobs, getting the bosses to take the specialty (and me) seriously was tough. At first they couldn’t see the attraction of these “novelty species”, as one old timer put it. Then…

  • It pays to be nice

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    When I was at vet school in the nineties I reached fourth year, the last year of teaching at Glasgow, and realised I would graduate and not know anything about non-domestic animals. There was to be a day of lectures, optional attendance, given by a well-respected RCVS specialist imported for that day. This was a…

  • Dealing with children and other animals

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      Image ©iStock.com/Photo_Concepts Not everyone loves children and, certainly, a proportion of people who choose to become vets would rather avoid them and stick to dealing with animals. However, it’s important to realise early on that, depending on the type of vet you become, you’re likely to see a large number of worried pet-owning children…