Inspiration can come in many forms, and my inspiration for today was Noel Fitzpatrick, better known as ‘The Bionic Vet’. We had a lecture from him this morning for our Business and Enterprise module to tell us about his experiences setting up his own practice and his innovating techniques. His techniques simply put are amazing, and [...]

Alison writes about procrastinating and what you give up in life to be a vet student After all my years in education you’d think I’d have successfully developed a technique to overcome procrastination. Oh no, it’s still present as ever around exam time. Hence why I’m blogging! I’ve started the immense task of revision but it’s [...]

Animal Abuse This week we had lectures on something horrible, but something completely necessary for us to learn: abuse of animals. I think what shocked me the most was how widespread it is. I sort of classed it with other things that rarely happen at the back of my head. In 2009 1,153 people were convicted [...]

Oh, we’re halfway there… I’ve come to a conclusion there is some sort of freaky veterinary timewarp that makes the days spent at vet school go three times as fast as your time at home. Which tends to be good as you like to relish your time at home, until it gets to this time of [...]

In every vet’s career you have milestones, and you’ll always remember the animals and circumstances surrounding their case, and ultimately why it changed you for the better. One of the major milestones we all have or will experience is saving your first animal life. Mine happened around two years ago, before I’d even got into vet [...]

Gender Inequality I had a learning session this week based on gender inequality in the profession in Kenya and Bangladesh and it got me thinking about some of the issues present in the UK. In Kenya and Bangladesh, female vets often face adversity and the general opinion that they are not competent enough to carry out [...]

The Dangers of Vet School Vet school is a dangerous place, it really is. From day one we get taught the safe way to do things and it should all probably be incorporated into a separate module called ‘How not to get killed by your patients’. It could be the obvious like getting bitten by a grumpy, or [...]