While driving to a farm call with my externship mentor, I was getting drilled with questions about the various causes of lameness in a horse, reasons for bloat in a cow, and the numerous toxic plants affecting livestock. Aside from me hating being put on the spot, I realized that I did not know quite […]
Off to the CDC for Me!
This month, I traveled to Atlanta, Georgia to take an epidemiology course at Emory University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The opportunity to study applied epidemiology and public health at such a renowned institution was absolutely amazing. Every professor for the course inspired me to continue to think about the world around […]
Tie-Dying Tumors
When I returned to Wisconsin to spend my winter break at home with my family, I was able to volunteer and shadow with one of the veterinarians I worked with when I first started working as a kennel assistant as a teenager. It felt so crazy to revisit a clinic that I had been in […]