Confused about my experience?

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Soon2bedogtor

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So I have quite a few hours of experience...
I have 1000+ hours working in a Small Animal ICU at a vet school, but I worked with LVT's and the vet residents would come assist if needed. Not sure if I can use that as vet experience or not?
Also, I have 1000+ hours as a kennel assistant, BUT a vet was always around, and called me back almost every day to assist with procedures, so I was kennel assistant/vet assistant? IM STRESSING HARDCORE!
 
Soon2bedogtor said:
So I have quite a few hours of experience...
I have 1000+ hours working in a Small Animal ICU at a vet school, but I worked with LVT's and the vet residents would come assist if needed. Not sure if I can use that as vet experience or not?
Also, I have 1000+ hours as a kennel assistant, BUT a vet was always around, and called me back almost every day to assist with procedures, so I was kennel assistant/vet assistant? IM STRESSING HARDCORE!
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I would say yes and yes, those both sound like vet experience.
 
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Soon2bedogtor said:
So I have quite a few hours of experience...
I have 1000+ hours working in a Small Animal ICU at a vet school, but I worked with LVT's and the vet residents would come assist if needed. Not sure if I can use that as vet experience or not?
Also, I have 1000+ hours as a kennel assistant, BUT a vet was always around, and called me back almost every day to assist with procedures, so I was kennel assistant/vet assistant? IM STRESSING HARDCORE!
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Taking care of animals under the instruction of clinicians, residents, and interns = vet experience
Giving medication to animals and performing procedures (catheters, blood draws, doppler, etc.) also under the direction of the doctors = vet experience

Stressing out about it NOW = not worth it
 
Soon2bedogtor said:
So I have quite a few hours of experience...
I have 1000+ hours working in a Small Animal ICU at a vet school, but I worked with LVT's and the vet residents would come assist if needed. Not sure if I can use that as vet experience or not?
Also, I have 1000+ hours as a kennel assistant, BUT a vet was always around, and called me back almost every day to assist with procedures, so I was kennel assistant/vet assistant? IM STRESSING HARDCORE!
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If you spent 2-300 of those hours with a vet, just divide the experience up. Estimate how many of those hours were actually spent being supervised by a vet and put those as vet experience and put the rest under animal experience. You can get technical and say you were being supervised the entire time but I highly doubt a vet is going to be supervising the kennel assistants all day...

Also, I feel bad for you because I'm a worrier too and the application process was not very fun after a while. It's gonna be a bumpy year for you. 😛
 
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Felixor90 said:
If you spent 2-300 of those hours with a vet, just divide the experience up. Estimate how many of those hours were actually spent being supervised by a vet and put those as vet experience and put the rest under animal experience. You can get technical and say you were being supervised the entire time but I highly doubt a vet is going to be supervising the kennel assistants all day...

Also, I feel bad for you because I'm a worrier too and the application process was not very fun after a while. It's gonna be a bumpy year for you. 😛
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it will get better! My boyfriend said if I get accepted to vet school I'm allowed to adopt a ferret. It's my little treat at the end of the road! 🙂
 
Felixor90 said:
If you spent 2-300 of those hours with a vet, just divide the experience up. Estimate how many of those hours were actually spent being supervised by a vet and put those as vet experience and put the rest under animal experience. You can get technical and say you were being supervised the entire time but I highly doubt a vet is going to be supervising the kennel assistants all day...

Also, I feel bad for you because I'm a worrier too and the application process was not very fun after a while. It's gonna be a bumpy year for you. 😛
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No, she should include all those hours as vet experience. She was working in an ICU for the entire time. She shouldn't need to divide it up because a vet wasn't present 100% of the time. The majority of tech jobs don't have a vet present 100% of the time.

For the kennel assisting job, she was still under the supervision of a vet and gaining vet experience. Most schools would tell you to count it as vet experience. Mostly because she still learns about the vet industry
 
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