22 Being a new grad vet in practice
Veterinary Clinical Podcasts
Dominic Barfield
5.0 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2014
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
So you've made it through vet school, landed your veterinary degree, now what? It's the start of another phase in your lifelong journey! There are many things to consider as a new grad vet starting life in practice. In this podcast we discuss issues such as choosing your first job, coping with those early days seeing cases, sources of support and advice, the PDP (UK), internships and specialisation! I am joined in this podcast by Dr Tom Cardy who graduated in 2011 and is now a resident in Neurology & Neurosurgery at the QMHA. Tom has had an interesting and unusual working life to date which gives him some extra valuable insights.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to the Small Animal Clinical Podcasts brought to you from the Royal Bedoucah College in London. |
| 0:06.8 | My name is Shaylan Jasani. |
| 0:09.1 | Today on the podcast we're going to do something a little bit different and actually something that was requested by one of our listeners. |
| 0:16.5 | So rather than talking about a clinical topic, we're instead going to chat about life sort of in the early days as a new graduate vet. |
| 0:25.0 | And to do so, I'm joined by Tom Cardi. |
| 0:27.9 | Tom has just finished his first year as a resident in neurology and neurosurgery and was also an intern here at the RVC a couple of years or so back was it? |
| 0:39.9 | Yep. |
| 0:40.5 | Two years, no, three years ago. |
| 0:42.3 | Three years ago. |
| 0:43.1 | Cool. |
| 0:43.7 | So, mate, thanks very much for joining me today. |
| 0:46.3 | We won't recount the tale, but we've had a bit of a challenge in scheduling and meeting |
| 0:50.5 | to do this podcast. |
| 0:51.4 | So I appreciate you coming along. |
| 0:54.4 | Before we start, I guess I'm going to ask you to give us a brief bio of your career so far. |
| 1:00.8 | And I think, you know, you mentioned it before we started recording, actually, |
| 1:04.1 | that one of the interesting things I think about having you do this podcast is that you're not, |
| 1:08.8 | how can I put this politely? |
| 1:10.5 | You're not quite as young as some new graduates might be. |
| 1:13.7 | I'm slightly jaded. |
| 1:15.2 | You're slightly greying. |
| 1:16.6 | I said to you, I think that actually you're going to hopefully offer us some insights |
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