UF pre-vets log???

[Hoxydude]

Hey guys!!
I was talking to a pre-vet advisor at UF via email and I was asking about experiece hours. She told me that there was no form to fill out for your hours but she suggested keeping a log of all of the cases I saw while with the vet. Has anyone else been told this?

Thanks!!!
Rayven

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[choroid88plexus]

Hey guys!!
I was talking to a pre-vet advisor at UF via email and I was asking about experiece hours. She told me that there was no form to fill out for your hours but she suggested keeping a log of all of the cases I saw while with the vet. Has anyone else been told this?

Thanks!!!
Rayven

Yeah I would recommend it. I did that back in the day when I was interested in medical school and working as a scribe. It really helps and could come in handy some day.

 

[twelvetigers]

Keeping track of hours will be very beneficial in the future. Otherwise, you'll tend to forget - much easier to have an exact number. Also make note of neat cases or things like that, because you'll tend to forget those too. Kinda keep a little diary, so to speak. You'll thank yourself later!

 

[StartingoverVet]

Keeping track of hours will be very beneficial in the future. Otherwise, you'll tend to forget - much easier to have an exact number. Also make note of neat cases or things like that, because you'll tend to forget those too. Kinda keep a little diary, so to speak. You'll thank yourself later!

I did that for a while but then realized no one was ever going to look at it, unfortunately including me. Then I just looked at my average hours/week and multiplied it by weeks to keep the total (adjusting for the occassional miss). 100% accurate. No. Does it really matter? No.

 

[Hoxydude]

so besides it being a good record for me personally, no one else ever looks at it????

hmm.... okay. so all of the expereince hours are self - reported right? what keeps someone from just bluffing about their numbers?

 

[Trilt]

I have an excel sheet with two pages for keeping track of hours- one for animal and one for veterinary experience. If anything interesting or noteworthy happened, I generally just put it next to the specific date.

I currently have it stored as a google document because I lost it twice when computers crashed. If google crashes, we're all screwed, so I think it is safe there.

 

[StartingoverVet]

hmm.... okay. so all of the expereince hours are self - reported right? what keeps someone from just bluffing about their numbers?

Honesty.

edit: I answered this posting as a general answer. Did not realize it was specific to UF. I do not know anything about UF requirements. Please consult them for more accurate info!

 

[twelvetigers]

You also have to list a reference for each experience.

 

[JuniorJumper]

Just out of curiosity, is Sylvia still the PreVet advisor?

No one at UF is going to ask to see a spreadsheet, it was just a suggestion as a way to keep more accurate track of your experience hours so all you have to do is plug it into VMCAS.

 

[NittanyKitty]

Honestly, I WISH this was something I thought of before, oh, junior year of college. It would have been helpful to have an accurate number of hours and what I saw/did each day. Got through the application process just fine without it, but I'd definitely recommend starting one if you're early in the experience-getting process.

 

[Hoxydude]

Just out of curiosity, is Sylvia still the PreVet advisor?

Not that I know of, I spoke to a lady named Terri Weldon. She was the only pre-vet advisor listed on the site.

 

[Hoxydude]

Hmm.... how are the hours reported on the VMCAS? Do you just fill in the hours earned at a particular location and give the name and phone number of your reference?

thanks for all the help guys!!!! It makes my life a lot easier. I was planning to make this super detailed log/diary thing thinking someone would eventually look at it lol

 

[lalzi22]

Hmm.... how are the hours reported on the VMCAS? Do you just fill in the hours earned at a particular location and give the name and phone number of your reference?

thanks for all the help guys!!!! It makes my life a lot easier. I was planning to make this super detailed log/diary thing thinking someone would eventually look at it lol

There is a blank space where you put in a number. Thats it. Vaguely simple and yet TREMENDOUSLY IRRITATING. So happy its over...