I'm right there with you. I need that email. Maybe tomorrow morning? Or they're trying to beat Ohio to see who can send out emails the latest.... Ohio's was at 8:58pm.... so maybe at 8:59pm we'll get something from Tufts?
not yet, last time the portal/email situation was like 12-24 hours apart if I remember correctly--so hopefully tomorrow?
100% will drive out there and tell them they made a mistake if it's not real lol
Right!? I'm like roughly an hour and 45 away, I'll go with you 😂
I'm about 45min away--I'm just south of Boston
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I'll need first and second breakfast as well as third coffee lol
I’m imagining Oprah pointing to each person
same here! kinda concerned but also excited!
you keep your dark humor to yourself lol
what does it say for everyone else under the application details part?
Program: DVM First Year StudentNothing on my portal
mine is also gone :/ ugh!!Mine is gone too.
April Fools in January, thank you 2021!
mine is gone too.... what the hell tufts
i did not get that message last time
Lol.. never lost a handle on one of my hawks or owls. Although I did have a squirrel once jump out of its cage and then it took us forever to keep the hawks away from him and try to get him from going Into their cages lol ive def lost my grip on a swan. Those things are damn hard to hold down. The good thing about hawks though is once u have them in a leg grip they become somewhat helpless lol.
You're not alone. Ive basically allready lost my mine so now im just casually spamming this forum. Let's all change to something a little more fun. What did everyone apply for track /interest? If I recall correctly it was tufts that had us choose like top 3 things or something like that. My focus is exotics.
Did you attend their WAZE symposium? I always thought I’d be a companion animal Gp but I love wildlife and zoo med and I wanted to specialize as a surgeon.... basically I don’t know what I want to do now. Lol
I did for most of it but had to leave for work half way through. I did a lot of internship with wildlife and I care about it a lot however, I am not a huge fan of all the zoonotic diseases that wildlife have (like for example racoons and roundworms 😱). I heard tufts doesn't work with racoons so not a problem I guess lol
heh wrangling squirrels... oh the scars 🙃
i think i also put education, as i'd like to teach wildlife medicine one day, and then possibly either research, pathology, or global health, depending on what was available.
yeahhhhh I actually wrote a blog for my family while I was doing that internship... I just went back and read about that exact day. 😂 Good thing I checked because I don't remember it this way at all!! Man was I an overdramatic 22 year old. 😳
Lol I deeply want to point out that you used the word then over 10 times and but over 5 times. But I dont think you used the word like even once. I spent a good amount of time during undergrad counting how many time people said "like" during presentation. Keeps the sanity.
The real question.. is with only 100 seats how many will they dedicate to us weirdo tracks (wildlife, exotics, zoo etc) non standard dog cat peopleheh wrangling squirrels... oh the scars 🙃
swans are wild. i really liked the few i've worked with but was quite mean.
the worst critter i've lost my grip on was a loon! got stabbed in the neck. i love them, but that was a scary five minutes or so. wouldn't blame the loon either - my own mistake. learned from it and it didn't happen again.
but for my track, i'm wildlife
i've done this!! once when I was a rookie - I was pulling up sq fluids in an insulin syringe and held the cap of the needle in my mouth. went to recap the needle with the cap still in my mouth. poked right on through the cap and straight into my lip.
HAHAHA I spent presentations counting the times people said "um"!
I want to know how many they typically accept each year and how many people usually decline and go elsewhere. Someone told me that for medical school, they usually interview anyone they want and only interview to make sure they aren't crazy. And then accept the vast majority and most kids just go elsewhere. I wonder if it's similar for medical school. Or if the person who told me that is even right.
There were about 30 people in my class interested in wildlife at the beginning of school -- maybe even more.
Yea that wouldnt suprise me. Wildlife is one of those things that lots of people think is cool until they realize it makes no money, is exhausting , and probably the most dangerous option (like I said not a big lover of zoonotic diseases lol). Ive always known i wanted to work with exotics (and by exotics i mean exotic domesticated legal pets - monkeys are great but ill leave those to the zoo vets not looking to getting any deadly hepatitis from them) my focus has and always will be for the little guys (reptiles, small mammals [ig rodents etc ], avian -birds , and the odd balls like my hedgehog, and aqautics). I havent heard of any school that has tracks per say. From my understanding from the exotic vet I work with is you don't specialize in anything. Everyone learns the same stuff and then you can take extra courses of course. But the path to specialization is post dvm. There just isn't enough vets for the little guys, and part of that is lack of money since people don't value their lives as much. Their my best friends though.
Definitely not the case everywhere -- some schools start tracking courses in the third year and your core clinical rotations vary based on large animal vs small.
Yes large vs small . But exotics isn't in that haha. There is no track for exotics (I suppose it would be included in large or small depending on the kind lol). There is like either farm animals equine etc or like small animals (dogs cats everything else ). But for exotics you need additional internships, residencies, and certification which are post veterinary school. Where as , and I may be wrong about this as I have never taken interest in traditional animals (in dogs and cats) I believe with them you could start practicing right out of school no additional steps needed no? I'm sure u could get additional certification for different fields in the small animal practice (ex cardiology, neuropathy what have you) but you could also just straight up be a general vet for dog and cats and not need anything else ?
And this ladies and gents is why we never put needles in our mouths.i've done this!! once when I was a rookie - I was pulling up sq fluids in an insulin syringe and held the cap of the needle in my mouth. went to recap the needle with the cap still in my mouth. poked right on through the cap and straight into my lip.
and once when i should've known better. after vaccinating a stray cat. was talking emphatically with my hands. hadn't recapped the needle. stabbed myself in my bad knee 🙃 ah life.
eh lol i'm deeply skeptical of my own chances, but i just loved that wildlife hospital when i visited and had to try and apply there again. i have a lowish cGPA and Tufts seems to skew a little higher, but sometimes you've just gotta try
You can also start practicing as an exotics vet immediately after school. I have some classmates who are applying for exotics-heavy GP jobs. You do definitely need multiple years of post-doc training for zoo med, but zoo med ≠ companion exotics. And those ≠ wildlife.
