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So today, a slight different to the clinical acumen,

but we're going to talk to Dave Beeston, one of our previous graduates.

So it graduated in July this year. Thank you. And we're going to, actually what we're going to do is we're going to talk about life as a new graduate.

So today thank you so much for joining us on the show.

Thank you for having me.

So, Dave, can you start with this actually where you're working at the moment and maybe

how you got employment?

Yeah, so I'm currently working up in Cheshire, an independent, very big independent practice called

Leonard Brothers Veterinary Centre. There's about 10 of us vets and two branches, really. It's one of those places where I went to on EMS.

I went there for about eight weeks of EMS during final year and actually the majority of that was after I had finished rotation

so I went on a month long placement and pretty much just pest like I was very persistent persistent yeah until they gave me a job

so yeah that's how I sort of came about and were other your contemporaries or other people in your year

did they do similar things about being strategic I'd like to say with your EMS and thinking about

where you you might want to work and

where you want to, you know, work when you...

Yeah, I think a lot of people did.

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