Three months ago, I said goodbye to my four-legged best friend and the one that lived long enough to come with me to vet school. He was 14 years and 8 months when he recently crossed the rainbow bridge. My family and I rescued him when he was almost 6 months old. He was not […]
Lessons Learned in my Third-Year of Vet School
It’s been four months since I officially became a senior vet student! It seems like it was yesterday when I spent all my weekends in the anatomy lab during my first year. I started my vet school journey three years ago and time has flown by. Sometimes I still cannot believe that my third year is […]
Recollections of Residency
2:00 pm Christmas afternoon – only ten more hours to go. I was a first-year resident at the Animal Medical Center (AMC) in New York City, running the hospital and overseeing 20 interns on the one major holiday I was required to cover during my residency in avian and exotic pet medicine. The AMC was […]
Finding Great Mentors
Before second-year gets started, I’ve had a couple of days where I could head back home to do some shadowing at the clinic I used to work at before vet school. My mentors at this practice are worth their weight in gold and I aspire to be like them someday! I only got to spend […]
Orientation: Round Two
I remember what my first day of vet school orientation was like. I was in a new state, at a school I barely knew and surrounded by total strangers. When I walked in, I was terrified. What if no one liked me, or I didn’t make any friends? But, by the time Orientation was over […]
National Veterinary Scholars Symposium
As the culmination of my summer research project, I got to go to the 2019 National Veterinary Scholars Symposium. This year the Symposium was hosted by Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. As part of the Symposium, I got to present my research during a poster presentation, and we also had the opportunity to […]
How to Make a Research Poster
I’ve been doing research through the Veterinary Summer Research Training Program which culminates in getting to present my findings at the 2019 National Veterinary Scholars Symposium. This has been an experience unlike any other and one of the things I’ve had to figure out how to do was create a research poster! A research poster […]
NAVLE Season: 5 Tips for Effective Studying
If you are a 4th-year vet student, you are likely aware that the NAVLE is looming a little too close for comfort with just a few short months before we all face the biggest exam of our careers. Dates are getting selected for testing and it is getting REAL. Here are 5 tips that I’ve […]
Top 3 Challenges of Year Four
BalanceThis one is a challenge for all 4 years of vet school, but with the added stresses and loaded schedule that 4th year brings with it, finding balance has been even more important. With the start of 4th year and the never-ending litany of patient care, paperwork, and lack of sleep, I have to make […]
Equine Book Club: Must-Haves for Every Year
As someone whose interests lie predominantly in the equine field since my undergraduate degree, I have accumulated several equine textbooks and references that have proven to be extremely helpful. Whether you are passionate about ponies or just trying to get through the equine labs and hope you never have to touch a horse again, here […]
