In April 2015 I was lucky enough to be offered a research assistant position with Clare Rusbridge, Chief of Neurology at Fitzpatrick Referrals, on the subject of syringomyelia in Cavalier King Charles Spaniels. After spending the summer taking thousands of measurements from MRI scans I was invited to spend a week at the practice with […]
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There are times in life when you wonder whether what you’re working towards is really worth it: the first time you leave work experience with a lot more on your shoes than you walked in with or that exam that simply doesn’t go your way. For me the biggest of these came before the universally […]
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Back when I was deciding which universities to apply to to study Veterinary Medicine I came to an Open Day for the University of Surrey and listened to the staff talk about how the Surrey vet course was going to be a different, a new type of veterinary education; I was desperate for one of those […]
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It’s been an incredible week. The first ever VET Festival and concert for ‘One Medicine’ took place in the grounds of Surrey University; the brainchild of Noel Fitzpatrick. As a Surrey vet student I got the opportunity to volunteer at the event. With an amazing line-up of speakers, a chance to network and my aim […]
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Armed with wellies and warm socks, the Easter holidays saw me venturing out onto my first EMS placement as a vet student of the University of Surrey. I was rather nervous, although I come from a farming background I pictured delivering lambs far more fiddly than the calves at home! After an hour’s train journey […]
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I’ve done a lot of work with farm animals in the past, but never lambing. After phoning around a list of contacts, I finally secured a placement near Brighton. I was expecting to be put up in a barn but my accommodation was a pleasant surprise and my hosts incredibly welcoming. After a long first […]
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