Calling all 2012 VetMed entry hopefuls, *VERY* Early i know!

Also, just a quick question - am I the only person who supports the badger cull here?

Dublin don't give offers its more if you get the grades you get in..well actually you arent guarenteed getting in with the grades you ar ethen put in a lottery and chosen its worth a shot maybe there is still some hope ... I just have plan a gap year just in case ..I can't find your earlier post what page is it on ? I bet you will get AA

Also, just a quick question - am I the only person who supports the badger cull here?

think the number of negs may give you a clue....

it says on their website that they do

just got feedback from Bristol, does anyone know if RVC give feedback? thanksss

When did you request for feedback?? I'm just wondering when I'm going to get mine

Has anyone got feedback from Liverpool yet??

I don't really see the need for people to have negged my post. When it comes to the cull there's always going to be disagreement and controversy. I for one support it as I've seen first hand the devastating effects of TB on our local farms. When the cull was proposed it gave some hope to us that something was being done to tackle this problem but once again welsh farmers are being let down by the government.

If you're so quick to judge my opinions I'd like to hear why you oppose the cull?

Is there any rvc students like steph lurking about still? I just wanted to know about the timetable etc and exams

I wasn't judging your opinions in fact and I didn't actually neg you. I think there are other options including vaccination. I know the devastation that is TB on farms as do most people on here. The government have admitted they should have vaccinated in the F&M outbreak....we are all entitled to our opinions sopme people dont think a badger cull is the ONLY answer...

I'm an RVC student...what do you want to know?

You may not have negged me but your snide little remark was enough. I didn't say that it was the ONLY answer, I simply said that I support it. I think it's the only feasible option at the moment that's going to actually come up with the results we need at the moment.

Snide?? Think that is a little unfair, it was just a comment no "snide" about it.... You said you support the badger cull you did not mention any alternative.......... read back your own comments and dont you be so quick to judge others!

There's a couple questions playing on my mind. You're probably thinking wait until September but yeah
I was told that you do exams before Christmas so you don't have to revise over the holidays and also, you know your work experience that you've done before can count towards your husbandary ems.. Is there any point in submitting it? Because I understand hat you have to do a report etc on it so do people just repeat their work experience so they actually know what theyre writing about. Finally, is the course like 9-5 as I get warned?

I assume you'll be on the standard 5 year course? In which cases, unless things have changed suddenly, you can't pre-count any animal husbandry placements. That is only for people on the 4 year grad course - because it is very tight for them to try and fit 12 weeks of placement into one year! So like I say, assuming you are on the 5 year course you will have to do 12 weeks placement regardless of what you have done before vet school (that is 2 weeks equine, pigs, dairy, lambing and 4 weeks free choice). The 'report' is an A4 sheet for each placement with a few sections to write a paragraph on - things like description of the farming enterprise (stock no's/breed/management things etc), skills you learnt and so on. You also have to write an Animal Husbandry research project for the end of your second year - on some topic of your choice. Meaning you will need to decide on a topic so you can collect data for it whilst on your placement (an example might be are twin lambs more affected with watery mouth than single lambs - so you would collect data for that whilst on your lambing placement).

Exams - again, assuming you will be on the 5 year course. You will have an MCQ exam before christmas and before easter in both your 1st and 2nd year, so you don't have to revise over either of those holidays!! These aren't worth much (10% I think, but I might be slightly wrong). The main exams (3 written papers, an oral and a spot test) are in the summer - normally middle to end of June with results beginning to middle of July. Exams in 3rd - 5th year are a bit different (3rd year exams in May, 4th year exams before christmas and finals in the summer of 5th year).

Timetable - this isn't actually too bad. RVC has been decreasing the amount of lecture time, so you have more directed learnings, computer aided learnings etc. To me this is a good thing, as there is only so many hours of lectures you can listen to in a day without switching off!! However interesting the subject sitting and being talked at for too many hours isn't a good way to learn! You're timetable will often mean you are in uni for most of the day - but not have teaching time scheduled for all of it. You will normally have a couple of hours of lectures in the morning and then something in the afternoon - maybe a dissection, histology practical, directed learning etc. These are organised in sub timetable groups - so yours might be 1:00-2:00 and then you are done for the day, or it might be 4:00 til 5:00, so you are in until 5:00 but have several hours free to do work in the middle of the day. You will always have wednesday afternoon off. So like I say, the timetable isn't too bad, you will have a fair bit of free time during the day - so if you are organised with your time you can get through quite a lot of work then.

Does that answer your questions? Anything else? :-)