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  • An irrational fear of the final year

    An irrational fear of the final year

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    Having averaged four hours’ sleep a night for a couple of weeks, I came out of fourth year exams alive… just. Sleeping pattern ruined, and a number of family and friends to see in quick succession (seeing as the next time I’ll be “home home” will be in five months or so), the four-day “summer…

  • Why the internet holds no fear for me

    Why the internet holds no fear for me

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    There was a time in history when it was possible for one person to know the sum total of all humanity’s knowledge. The multitudinous mysteries of science, philosophy, art and commerce all lay within the grasp of a single sage. Those days are long gone. Never mind natural philosophy; nowadays I have serious problems just…

  • RCVS VN council election manifesto: Matthew Rendle RVN

    RCVS VN council election manifesto: Matthew Rendle RVN

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    MATTHEW RENDLE RVN Senior clinical VN, London Zoo T: 07947 812630 E: matthew.rendle@zsl.org Matthew’s VN career kicked off in 1989 at The Park Veterinary Centre in Watford, a busy mixed and exotics 13-vet practice. It was here he completed his training and here in 1994 where he became senior theatre nurse. Leaving in 2003, Matthew…

  • Work hard, play hard

    Work hard, play hard

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    At the end of January I travelled down to Nottingham for the third annual Student Equine Veterinary Association (SEVA) symposium. The weekend was crammed with lectures, practicals and seminars relevant to horses in particular, for equine enthusiasts from all UK vet schools – and even some from further afield. Auspicious start Any congregation of vet…

  • Yule be sorry

    Yule be sorry

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    Wow. That was quick, huh? When I was a kid, if you’d told me I would have to wait a year for something, you may as well have told me that I would have to wait until the end of time. Somehow, those immensities of time that years used to be got replaced with fleeting,…

  • Being English in Scotland

    Being English in Scotland

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    Coming from the centre of England, studying veterinary medicine in Scotland has its quirks. In my first week I was immersed in an entirely new language that had nothing to do with my choice of course. One of my Scottish friends loves to remind me of the golden moment in an introductory lecture when I leaned…

  • Rabbiting on at London Vet Show

    Rabbiting on at London Vet Show

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    Well, I finally did it. Like Christopher Reeve in Superman III, I am using my superpowers for evil. I’m not suggesting I am planning to melt anyone with laser eye beams (though if I had them, they would be great for amputating limbs), but I did agree to write this blog post for a pet…

  • Compromise: learning the ‘art of veterinary medicine’

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    It was my first day at work. I was nervous as heck, keen to impress, and desperate to prove to myself I could actually function as a veterinary surgeon (and, ideally, without writing my car off in the first week, which is what my university mates had voted me the person most likely in the…

  • Total CPD immersion – from breakfast to lights out

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    For a long time before graduation, I held a special interest in “exotics” – a term I take to include birds, amphibians, invertebrates, wild animals and rabbits, even though the latter should be included in the “small animal” speciality. I even registered and studied for the CertZooMed before coming up hard against the requirement to gain…

  • Are you documented?

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    Erstwhile RCVS president Jacqui Molyneux’s comments that practitioners use the 10 hours “undocumented private study” CPD allowance to make up their hours when they are otherwise below their specified 35 hours per year (Veterinary Times, March 30) is neither helpful nor acknowledges the realities of the situation. For all its strides to become more in touch with…