During my senior year of veterinary school, I remember many of my classmates were interested in pursuing a small animal rotating internship and then residency. I knew I wanted to go into General Practice or Shelter Medicine. I thought about doing a shelter or small animal rotating internship once, but quickly realized it was not […]
The Challenges of Board Certification
Board certification – two words that bring both fear and excitement to the mind of any veterinary intern or resident. Can I achieve it? Will I pass the test? What happens if I fail? These are the questions that any veterinarian in an internship or residency training program, ultimately preparing to take board-certification examinations, wonders […]
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 […]
