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What do you do if you have found this blog after you have submitted your application materials, or after you did an interview, or after you scheduled your clinical year? You read some of the advice and realize, “Uh oh, I didn’t do that.” Well, now what? Fortunately, all is not lost. First, realize that
A couple of weekends ago, I presented a CE talk. It was a one-hour talk which I’ve done before. I enjoyed giving the talk- the attendees laughed in all the right places and I felt like I dispensed some good advice and information. The talk was preceded by a four hour drive, and followed by
Well, the blog is going well even though, honestly, I haven’t been doing as much as I would like to do with it. It looks like we’re reaching more people, which is fantastic. I’ve had some positive emails from people who have gotten faculty positions and house officer positions who found the blog valuable. I’m
If you have ever wondered if you should buy a house for vet school or for residency, this guest post I wrote for the White Coat Investor is for you. Tl;dr: probably don’t. But you have to run the numbers for yourself! Check it out: https://www.whitecoatinvestor.com/pros-of-renting/
Some pretty good improvement in the past year! It looks like the search engines are sending people this way when they look for advice on applications, which is terrific. Three years ago, March 2019, I launched The Vetducator blog. A lot of blogs fold within a year or two, but I’m still writing and enthusiastic
I am obviously biased, but I think working in veterinary academia is the best thing since sliced bread. I gather other areas of academia are a dumpster fire, so if you have a PhD in English or Philosophy, I am sorry. But I feel clinical veterinary academia is a great place to be. I’ve been
During M&M rounds, we will examine some fictitious cases and evaluate the facts and consider some solutions to these problems. Gary is a 21-year-old Caucasian male who presented for not being a reasonable freaking human being. Lisa is a 26-year-old Asian-American female who presented for the same. The symptoms for Gary include yelling at customer
One of my favorite blogs, the White Coat Investor, did Morbidity and Mortality rounds for one reader’s finances. I think it’s a neat way to process information and present it to you in a format familiar to veterinary medicine. For those who don’t know, in medicine we do M&M rounds when something goes wrong. Usually,
I have served on intern selection committees for more years than I care to count. Although there are a lot of similarities year-to-year, there are also some interesting differences. This is my first year reviewing intern applicants at my current institution, and there is always some variability in applicants from program to program. Below are
Hello constant reader! You may have noticed I haven’t posted for the past 2 weeks, in spite of my plan to post valuable content for veterinary professionals twice a week. This is multifactorial, but I am not done with the blog yet! I want to continue to post good content, but plan to continue to