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  • A vet school storm on the horizon

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    Following last year’s announcement that the University of Surrey is to open a new veterinary school (taking in the first cohort of students in autumn 2014), it would appear that the University of Ulster (Northern Ireland) is now jumping on the bandwagon. These proposals have indeed kicked up quite a storm in the veterinary world.…

  • No substitute for experience

    No substitute for experience

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    Recently, for the first time in years, I tried my hand at polo again. I had played a few times before as part of a Pony Club team, and although I loved it, in all honesty, we were pretty rubbish. So it was quite a nice surprise to be able to actually hit the ball.…

  • “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”

    “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”

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    After a summer of EMS, traveling and very little academic work, the time finally came for me to come back down to earth. Having been back in Glasgow for about a month now, I think I’ve just about settled into the second-year routine. After a week of scavenging freebies and signing up to every club…

  • Broaden your horizons with EMS

    Broaden your horizons with EMS

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    When I received yet another EMS email that had been sent to the whole vet school, I almost deleted it out of habit, but something stopped me. A word caught my eye: Bolivia. I had always wanted to go to South America – would this be my chance to tick something off the bucket list as…

  • One year as a vet student

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    Having received my results for the professional exams, I can finally say that I’ve finished my first year at vet school! Being brutally honest, the first term was a bit of a culture shock. I had focused so much on getting into vet school and being a vet that I didn’t really think about what…

  • Padraig Egan on internships

    Padraig Egan on internships

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    Padraig has recently finished a 12-month internship at Fitzpatrick Referrals. Here he talks about his experiences and how graduates can go about finding what’s right for them. Unusually, rather than starting his internship straight from vet school, Padraig took it on after more than four years in practice, when he realised he wasn’t finding fulfilment…

  • Laminitis: is hay the culprit?

    Laminitis: is hay the culprit?

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    Now home for the summer, having finished my first year at vet school, I’ve been back at the farm, mucking out the ponies and riding, as if I’d never left… and this means I’m back to the ongoing battle with laminitis. While the ponies are more at risk during the spring, Gracie, our 12.2hh, seems…

  • Rodeo time!

    Rodeo time!

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    With pre-exam stress in full swing for most of us, we welcomed a break in the form of the Glasgow Vet School Rodeo last weekend. The annual charity event took place for the 53rd time this year. Traditionally (from what I can gather), it used to be somewhat like a country show, with stock showing,…

  • It pays to be nice

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    When I was at vet school in the nineties I reached fourth year, the last year of teaching at Glasgow, and realised I would graduate and not know anything about non-domestic animals. There was to be a day of lectures, optional attendance, given by a well-respected RCVS specialist imported for that day. This was a…

  • Suicide: a compound problem

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    The perennial topic of comparative suicide rates in different professions came up this weekend at my course. I am in a group of nurses, lawyers, doctors, dentists, and midwives. Over lunch one of the doctors brought up the comparative suicide rates for the professions represented at my course and, as is well known, vets top…