Tag: recruitment
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Diarrhoea at midnight: the OOH conundrum
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The veterinary staffing crisis is hitting out-of-hours providers, which could potentially have a huge impact on the rest of the profession. Practices that outsource their out-of-hours care have been warned to have a contingency plan, while those struggling to staff their own in-house OOH services won’t have the option to outsource. There is no ideal…
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Vets in crisis: the perfect storm
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Working in veterinary at the minute is hard… We thought it was tough last year, but there always seemed to be a light at the end of the tunnel (staff coming back from furlough, the vaccine rollout, etc). We hoped by now that 2020 would just seem like a bad dream. But no. If anything,…
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Hormones in practice, part 2: common conditions
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In part one, we broached the taboo of “women’s problems”. A bit of reading about Endometriosis Awareness Month in March and I was staggered about the huge impact our hormonal fluctuations can have on us as individuals, business and the economy. As the editor of Veterinary Woman, it’s my aim to support women in the…
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Accessibility to veterinary medicine, part 3: postgraduates
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There are many reasons that someone may decide to embark on a veterinary course as a postgraduate. Whether that be because his or her A-level or equivalent grades weren’t reached at the time to enter at undergraduate level, or a change in career direction later in life (who genuinely knows what they want to do…
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Eosinophils: worms, wheezes, and weird diseases
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Unless you’re a parasitic nematode (and I suspect the majority of you reading this aren’t) or suffer from an allergy (probably a bit more likely), it’s hard not to be a little bit excited when you see an eosinophil. Just like their brothers-in-arms, the neutrophils, eosinophils are part of the front-line defences of the immune…
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Christmas chocolate etiquette
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The festive season is always a whirl of extra out-of-hours shifts and complicated rotas, but I want to get on to some more serious matters for December – ones that might mean you need to start planning for next Christmas right now. Yes, I’m talking about Christmas chocolate etiquette roulette. You can choose your friends?…
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Brexit and vets: providing lactose against the intolerant?
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I often wonder what we would pad the daily news out with if the UK hadn’t voted to leave the European Union on 23 June 2016. Last week, it was shaken up a bit with incidents of “milkshaking” – trending on Twitter as “lactose against intolerance” (was it British milk they were using?). Even so, it seems…
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Online vet grad bashing
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I’m generally a big fan of the various vet-related Facebook groups – they provide a less formal way to keep in touch with veterinary news, while offering a wealth of information from numerous different types of people across the profession. In minutes, a post looking for opinions can offer a “thousand ways to skin a…
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Staff retention: double or quits?
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The recruitment problem in the veterinary profession is omnipresent and as crippling as ever. The most recent method of trying to tackle the shortage is the announcement of the University of Nottingham School of Veterinary Medicine and Science’s dual intake. The university has opted to enrol 150 undergraduates in September – as many institutions do…
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New locum matching service unveiled
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A service is being launched to help practices across the UK fill their locum job vacancies in minutes. Locum Vet Finder (LVF) has been designed to help solve some of the problems created by a recruitment crisis that has left hundreds of practices struggling with unfilled locum vacancies. Based on an innovative technology platform that…