Help for every stage of your veterinary career
I try to maintain a positive tone of this blog, but I also feel responsible for helping you understand reality. Veterinary medicine has been a great profession for me, but not everyone should go to vet school. Here are some reasons that another profession and training experience might be the right fit for you. Bad
There are as many reasons to get a DVM as there are people who want one. This list isn’t intended to be proscriptive or exhaustive. But, if your reason isn’t somewhere on here, I would suggest you carefully consider your actual core reason for deciding on vet school. 1) You want to be a leader.
Some time in the recent past, I thought to myself, “I wonder if there is a guide to help those who are applying to vet school? If not, maybe that’s something I could write!” I looked on Amazon and the result was the Vet School Survival Guide. The author sent me that book and sent
Some time in the recent past, I thought to myself, “I wonder if there is a guide to help those who are applying to vet school? If not, maybe that’s something I could write!” I looked on Amazon and the result was this book. The Vet School Survival Guide: Notes from a Back Row Student
Well, here we are, going back to school in the midst of a contagious, virulent, very bad pandemic. Just as cases are going up, thousands of students will be interacting with people inside spaces. I don’t know if that’s necessarily bad, but I understand it can be anxiety-inducing. I think my single piece of advice
This one is pretty simple: there ARE no bad vet schools. I genuinely believe that. The AVMA maintains fairly high standards for accreditation. If a school is accredited by the AVMA, I think it is a fine place to get an education to prepare you for life as a veterinarian. So what is this post
I have been reluctant to write this post for a while. Not because I feel like discussing interview questions is cheating. As we have covered before, preparation is expected for an interview- if you don’t research and prepare, you are shooting yourself in the foot. I think my reluctance centers around two issues: There are
In my post giving about advice on how to maximize your time during vet school for success, I mentioned getting time working with underserved/marginalized/low socioeconomic status (UML for the purposes of this article) groups. One of my editors said, “Why?” I thought that was a great question and deserved its own article. As always, this
By The Pharmducator The last time I did a phone interview I was a senior vet student applying for internships. Therefore, I do not have the experience with this format that I do with any other. However, my significant other has been interviewing like a fiend for the past 6 months and has done numerous
Higher education has become incredibly expensive. There are many reasons for this, including expanding administrator numbers and salaries, declining state support, schools expanding offerings to compete for paying clients (students), and a bubble for student loans. Regardless, you want to go to vet school (or are in vet school) and need to figure out how