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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
I have some bad news. Life is not a meritocracy. We all wish we lived in a world where, if you are the best candidate for a position, you get the position. Unfortunately, that’s not the world we live in. In our world, who you know has a tremendous impact on your ability to get
I do not represent every veterinary professional. I think that should be obvious, but I have to make that VERY clear for this particular post. I have spoken with many veterinary professionals and academics, and I have trained dozens of house officers and thousands of students, and there are numerous ways to approach success in
Two years ago, March 2019, I launched The Vetducator blog. Let’s take a look at what we’ve done in the last 24 months, similar to what we did last year! I love statistics. Numbers are so wonderfully illuminating. When I am running statistical analyses, I am in my ‘flow’ state and time just drifts by.