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This week I started volunteering/shadowing at a mixed animal practice. As you guys know, I have a bio degree but no experience. The good thing here is that he lets me come in however much as I want. I am currently living with my parents and do not have to work so Ive been working there for two days now and got 20 hours in, definetly happy about that (going in soon today).
Anyways this practice is a pretty large one, the guy owns 4-5 clinics in my area and is very well known. I initially contacted him because he is a mixed animal vet, he said I could definetly come with him to go on field calls. He does not have any facilities for large animals at his clinics, he just does house calls. I went out with him to the field calls on monday and I really was interested in pursuing large animal veterinary medicine after that experience. I had no experience with horses before this. Yesterday I dont know what happened but basically he left with other techs to the field sites and didnt ask me. I am new and didnt speak up because I felt he must have needed some more experienced hands. I will be more proactive today but feel I shouldnt be too pushy as I dont have any horse experience. Basically, this guy does all the horse calls and does the more complicated surgeries but most of the time he is away from the office at field calls while his other vets handle the small animal case load.
Now there is another vet down the street from this guy and he clearly has a more large animal emphasis then the one I have now. They have stables on the grounds and have surgerical rooms for large animals. However, when we were driving to the field calls on monday we drove by this office and the vet I am with now clearly did not like this other vet. I was planning on going there this week to inquire about shadowing. I was just a little nervous if he found out I was also going to this other vet and if he would not let me come in anymore (he really didnt like this other vet and their literally one mile or less from one another). I am definetly going to inquire about shadowing at this other clinic but was wondering how to handle it if this first vet finds out.
I also had another question: I am trying to get as many hours with a vet as possible and am willing to work everyday until I can apply by the october deadline. So far my schedule at this vet is 9am-7pm monday through thursday. I was wondering if I was able to go to this other vet whether I should try to cut out one of them out so I can get some animal experience because as of right now I only have this small amount of vet experience but do have 78 hours of research from the undergrad. While I would prefer to just go in everyday to clinics, I am not sure if I should cut out one of the vets and do an animal experience somewhere. I actually got a contact from the local zoo here and they said I could volunteer with one of the keepers or at their animal hospital. Now I realize I shouldnt assume I will be able to shadow this other vet but if I cant I would go to other mixed practices etc in the area. I am at a crossroads at the moment as I dont know what I should do in terms of my other free time. I really want to pursue large animal medicine but feel my best shot at experience would be getting with vets but that does not count as animal experience.
Thanks!
Anyways this practice is a pretty large one, the guy owns 4-5 clinics in my area and is very well known. I initially contacted him because he is a mixed animal vet, he said I could definetly come with him to go on field calls. He does not have any facilities for large animals at his clinics, he just does house calls. I went out with him to the field calls on monday and I really was interested in pursuing large animal veterinary medicine after that experience. I had no experience with horses before this. Yesterday I dont know what happened but basically he left with other techs to the field sites and didnt ask me. I am new and didnt speak up because I felt he must have needed some more experienced hands. I will be more proactive today but feel I shouldnt be too pushy as I dont have any horse experience. Basically, this guy does all the horse calls and does the more complicated surgeries but most of the time he is away from the office at field calls while his other vets handle the small animal case load.
Now there is another vet down the street from this guy and he clearly has a more large animal emphasis then the one I have now. They have stables on the grounds and have surgerical rooms for large animals. However, when we were driving to the field calls on monday we drove by this office and the vet I am with now clearly did not like this other vet. I was planning on going there this week to inquire about shadowing. I was just a little nervous if he found out I was also going to this other vet and if he would not let me come in anymore (he really didnt like this other vet and their literally one mile or less from one another). I am definetly going to inquire about shadowing at this other clinic but was wondering how to handle it if this first vet finds out.
I also had another question: I am trying to get as many hours with a vet as possible and am willing to work everyday until I can apply by the october deadline. So far my schedule at this vet is 9am-7pm monday through thursday. I was wondering if I was able to go to this other vet whether I should try to cut out one of them out so I can get some animal experience because as of right now I only have this small amount of vet experience but do have 78 hours of research from the undergrad. While I would prefer to just go in everyday to clinics, I am not sure if I should cut out one of the vets and do an animal experience somewhere. I actually got a contact from the local zoo here and they said I could volunteer with one of the keepers or at their animal hospital. Now I realize I shouldnt assume I will be able to shadow this other vet but if I cant I would go to other mixed practices etc in the area. I am at a crossroads at the moment as I dont know what I should do in terms of my other free time. I really want to pursue large animal medicine but feel my best shot at experience would be getting with vets but that does not count as animal experience.
Thanks!