Help for every stage of your veterinary career
Although time consuming, I greatly enjoy reading the intern application packets we get. They are packed full of interesting stories, and the accomplishments of these applicants honestly amazes me. Many of them have faced serious personal hardship- cancer diagnoses, generational poverty, fleeing war-torn countries. Many of them are truly inspirational. Most of them are just
I turned out to be a huge Stephen King fan as an adult. Growing up, my sister loved his horror stories, but I don’t really like horror, so I never read any King. Until, that is, I read The Dark Tower. That sold me. Now Stephen King is a go-to for me, particularly when I’m
I have been religiously reading the White Coat Investor (WCI) blog for a few years now. The information I have learned there has guided a huge number of my personal and professional decisions. I now teach personal finance to the house officers and students who take an elective practice management rotation and have gotten positive
Interacting with other humans is hard. As a culture, we have a terrible time determining if someone is telling the truth or lying. The handshake originated as a way to determine that the other person doesn’t have a weapon they could use against you. In veterinary medicine, we will often shake hands when meeting someone
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/
Dr. Bobbi Conner and I had a great discussion about candidates interested in emergency and critical care veterinary medicine. Her advice to be a well-rounded “whole” person I think pertains to ANYONE interested in veterinary medicine! Dr. Conner also interviewed me for HER podcast! You can find that here!
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
All my professional life, I have ended up with more money at the end of the year than I started with. I didn’t really know why or what to do with this until I found Mr. Money Mustache. I have since become passionate about personal finance, and teach the vet students and house officers at
It was the summer of 2016. My wife had gotten a faculty job 3 hours away from our home. After a couple of months of just seeing each other on the weekends, we decided we didn’t want to live apart, so we started looking for other jobs. At this time, I told my department chair