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  • Tips for vet school: the first few days

    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…

  • Two down, three to go

    Two down, three to go

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    I feel so incredibly lucky to be where I am today: two years down as a vet student, on the course of my dreams and heading toward the career I’ve been aspiring to since I was six years old. And it’s still as surreal, stressful and exciting as ever! For Bristol uni, at least, the…

  • Nail clipping

    Nail clipping

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    “Clip nails” It seems innocuous. It looks so simple and routine on the consulting list – no worrying about history taking, no complicated diagnoses or treatment plans – just clip the nails. A quickie that may even give you a chance to snatch a few minutes back so you can stay on time: this is…

  • A vet’s role in an environmental crisis

    A vet’s role in an environmental crisis

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    Climate change and mass extinction have been hot topics over recent weeks. But, if we’re being perfectly candid, these subjects should have reached the headlines a long time ago – which is perhaps why so many people have taken to the streets of London in protest. Though I share the plight of the people who…

  • Staying motivated

    Staying motivated

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    When your course is a minimum of five years long, and your days are filled with lab work, lectures and study, it can be easy to lose sight of the big picture – the real core driver behind why you wanted to be a vet in the first place. Forgive me if I’m wrong, but…

  • The mistakes that haunt us

    The mistakes that haunt us

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    More than any other group of people I know, vets are good at beating themselves up after mistakes – world class, in fact. We make mistakes because we’re human. But, because we’re also medical professionals, sometimes the mistakes we make lead to a death, and that’s a very hard thing to deal with – particularly…

  • All work, no play

    All work, no play

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    Christmas is almost here, which means a much-awaited and deeply longed-for break from the 9 to 5 pattern of university life. The holiday period for Bristol students is starting a little later than normal this year, so, naturally, my friends and I are counting down the days until we get to retreat to the festive…

  • CPD as a new grad

    CPD as a new grad

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    One of the advantages of new graduate programmes is the regular and, on the whole, good quality CPD included as standard. This can vary between the programmes, with some offering a degree of choice and others a strict programme of compulsory sessions. These often include a variety of non-clinical and clinical topics, delivered in both…

  • Academic snobbery

    Academic snobbery

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    With the news of a new vet school opening I feel it’s time to talk about the elephant in the room with veterinary education. By ”veterinary education” I mean education for vets and vet nurses, as this issue affects us all. By “issue”, I mean academic snobbery. Yes, you know who you are – out…

  • Congress – a great catalyst for positive change

    Congress – a great catalyst for positive change

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    I’m sitting here on my first proper day off since I got home from this year’s BSAVA Congress. My voice is hoarse, I ache all over and I’m no longer a Porn Star Martini virgin. You could say I had a good time – and all in the name of sharing with some of the…