Vet Times

Tag: Students

  • The possibilities are endless

    The possibilities are endless

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    By the time we reach university, veterinary students already have a distinct advantage over the majority of the student population – in that we know what we want to do. Certainty over my future career, although perhaps a slight cliché, has always been the envy of my friends. When it came to the dreaded A-level…

  • Knowing what you don’t know

    Knowing what you don’t know

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    One of the most exciting and yet terrifying things about being a veterinary student is the fact there is always more to know. You can be the best student and even the best vet in the world, but you can never know everything – it’s simply impossible. I’m in the second year of my course…

  • EMS vs TP – four years on…

    EMS vs TP – four years on…

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    I’ve been pondering over a blog on the current situation of the EMS and training practice (TP) schemes for a while and thought I should search for anything I may have written as I pondered. Well, shock of all shocks, I’ve not just made notes, I’d already written and published a full blog on this…

  • Retention prevention: stop blaming students

    Retention prevention: stop blaming students

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    My interview at the University of Bristol was as terrifying as all my others, although it was my last chance. The interview at Edinburgh hadn’t gone well; I had been sent to the wrong room in the library and subsequently forgotten about, then hastily hurried in during lunch, with grumpy interviewers and a flustered interviewee.…

  • Extracurricular activities

    Extracurricular activities

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    Even for someone like me, who is introverted and has the social skills of the average nerd, university was the most socially active period of my life. Most of my nights were spent with friends – either at the cinema, hanging around at other people’s houses – or at pubs, scavenging for free food in…

  • Corporate vet school

    Corporate vet school

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    The announcement of a corporate veterinary group’s collaboration with the new Keele University/Harper Adams veterinary school struck a few chords, and seemingly opened a figurative can of worms that (like their literal parasitic counterparts) just doesn’t sit well in my gut. A few points to consider here, the first of which I have written about…

  • Learning communities for vets and nurses

    Learning communities for vets and nurses

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    Following on from my previous blog on new vet and vet nurse schools I wanted to write an almost parallel piece about the learning communities we create and the importance of these to our future vets and VNs. What is a learning community? In the strictest sense, a learning community is a group that meets to…

  • 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…

  • Am I still a new grad?

    Am I still a new grad?

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    I find it hard to believe students from the year below me at vet school received their finals results last week. It doesn’t feel like a year since my friends and I were sailing down the Kelvin for the infamous Glasgow raft race on results day. Well, there was more falling into the river than…

  • Spoonies: welcome to Janesville

    Spoonies: welcome to Janesville

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    I’ve said before about my lack of love for Facebook, but my social media heart has warmed up a little towards it – not because I think their exposure will create a better platform or that people will ever stop posting the same meme 50 times a day. No, it’s much simpler and closer to…