Getting into Vet School Part 1: Work Experience Wisdom

Greetings budding vetlings! This is my first post in my ‘Getting into Vet School’ series. This first post is about work experience hints and tips which I’m hoping will lend itself to helping you get more out of your placements than just a farmers tan and a faecal facemask (Vet life isn’t always glamorous!)! Before…

The Baby-Vet’s 2017!

As my site ‘Travels of a Baby-vet’ has been up and running for almost a year now!?! And 2017 has flown by spectacularly, I thought this would be a fitting time to write a year roundup! A cheeky Travels of a Baby-vet newsletter, if you will… University life continues….. Well, I guess I should begin….at…

Smallies Rotations – Getting thrown in the Deep End

After the slog of fourth-year exams, the uphill struggle to graduation begins and vet school presents us with yet another challenge, this time in the form of clinical rotations. Rotations are essentially a year and a half of being thrown in at the deep end to practice all the skills, and exercise all the knowledge…

London Vet Show, Student Style!

This year Beth and I were lucky enough to score a free trip to London Vet Show courtesy of our Veterinary Practice family https://veterinary-practice.com. We were invited down all expenses paid to assist on the veterinary practice stall, this was a fab opportunity to scope out the largest collection of vets, drugs companies and CPD…

BSAVA Congress 2017

What better way to wind down after a hectic first week getting to grips with rotations than to go and work our brains harder by attending a conference!? The BSAVA conference to be exact! I’ll keep it short and sweet as I am currently meant to be preparing for today’s behaviour seminar not faffing about…

A not-so sorry send off to lectures

No more lectures for fourth years!!….. If we all pass exams that is! At Liverpool vet school the time had come for us all to leave the safety of the lecture theatre and move on to greater (and scarier) things. In the next couple of months, we have our last set of exams to tackle…

BVZS Spring Meeting

have just got back from one of my nerdy ventures where myself and a number of the LUVZS committee attended this year’s BVZS Autumn meeting held at Oxford University’s Pembroke College. BVZS (The British Veterinary Zoological Society for those of you who are not familiar with this organisation) is a rapidly growing society supporting the…