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  • Life after vet school – graduation: where do I go from here?

    Life after vet school – graduation: where do I go from here?

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    Nothing hits you quite as hard as reality, as you walk out of your final fifth year veterinary exam. Up until this very moment, your life has followed a structured timetable, carefully planned by the veterinary school. Now, with it all finished, who is there to lead you from here onwards? This is probably the…

  • Blood gas analysis, pt 1: why everyone needs to know about it

    Blood gas analysis, pt 1: why everyone needs to know about it

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    For those of you who have received referral histories from emergency or specialists hospitals, blood gas analysis is probably no stranger to you. For those who have never heard of them before, fear not – you are in for a treat. In my emergency hospital, the blood gas analyser is arguably one of the most…

  • A difference of opinion

    A difference of opinion

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    I’m only a few short weeks into my final-year rotations at the University of Bristol’s Veterinary Referral Hospital, but I already feel like I’ve learned a lot: DOPs aren’t as scary as I’d built them up to be in my head. It does get easier to navigate your way around the hospital with time (and…

  • Globetrotting RVN takes to the streets

    Globetrotting RVN takes to the streets

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    Vets Now RVN Katherine Alexander has used her skills in Africa and China, the South Pacific and now Glasgow. She’s cared for bears and pumas, elephants and jaguars, as well as ministering, more routinely, to domestic pets. The common link is that, in all those places, her time has been given freely – outside of…

  • Encouraging mums ‘back to what they love’

    Encouraging mums ‘back to what they love’

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    A mother of four appointed as the new head of nursing services at one of the UK’s leading animal hospitals is marking International Women’s Day (today, 8 March) by urging more mums to consider returning to work after having children. Kathryn Latimer Jones has taken on the senior role at Linnaeus-owned Northwest Veterinary Specialists (NWVS)…

  • Tips for making the most of extramural studies

    Tips for making the most of extramural studies

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    Thanks to it that shall not be named (the pandemic) I started my clinical work experience or “extramural studies” (EMS) a little later than is usual for a veterinary student. Having 10 weeks of work experience cancelled out from under me in 2020 did feel incredibly frustrating at the time, but in hindsight, I think…

  • Vets in crisis: the perfect storm

    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,…

  • From RVN to PhD: Fraje Watson

    From RVN to PhD: Fraje Watson

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    Following my previous blog on vet nurses who are completing PhDs, I now have the honour of sharing their journey from RVN to PhD. This, I hope, will offer you some insight into how you get into academia, what the funding options are, and what do you actually DO every day as a PhD student.…

  • Linear foreign bodies, part 3: should YOU take it to surgery?

    Linear foreign bodies, part 3: should YOU take it to surgery?

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    In the previous post we covered what to look out for on ultrasound when assessing for a linear foreign body. Now we discuss the things you should consider before deciding to take the patient to surgery. Read the following statements and answer the questions – either yes or no… Linear foreign body surgeries can be…

  • Hormones in practice, part 2: common conditions

    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…