Hello and welcome back to the Small Animal Clinical podcast, brought to you from the Royal Veterinary College in London.

My name is Shailen Jassani.

Today on the podcast, we're going to do something a little bit different, and actually, instead of talking about a clinical problem as such,

we're going to be talking about clinical teaching in general practice and in particular

focusing on the experience that undergraduate students have when they're seeing practice or

doing their extramural studies otherwise known as EMS and I think this is a you know going to be

a podcast that's of interest both to the teachers and also to the

students so it should be really interesting. And to do this, I'm joined by two people this time.

The first is Ruth Serlin and the second is Jane Tomlin. So thanks ladies for joining me today.

Before we get into the podcast itself, I wonder if you could both give our listeners a brief overview of who you are, your past career, and especially what your current role at the RBC is.

I think it's important that obviously the listeners know who they're listening to so that they can put what you say into context.

And I guess, you know, like how much of your past career you want to divulge is entirely up to you.

Shall we start with you then, Ruth?

Hello.

Yeah, I qualified from the RVC back in 1989, and I've spent most of my time.

Before me, I'm so happy. I spent most of my time working in charity practice

or First Opinion Emergency Care

and the last few years

I've been working at the vet college

but teaching final year veterinary students out in practice

at Blue Cross Animal Hospital.

So I've been doing quite a lot of EMS type of activities with them.

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