Bristol Vet school Q&A

Same! My offer came in the post yesterday
I've been looking at accommodation, love Goldney but I've heard it's really hard to get in to.
What do people think of student houses? Northwell looks great and it's quite cheap too for Bristol, do you think you'd have as good a student life there?
So excited to have gotten in somewhere!

Same! My offer came in the post yesterday
I've been looking at accommodation, love Goldney but I've heard it's really hard to get in to.
What do people think of student houses? Northwell looks great and it's quite cheap too for Bristol, do you think you'd have as good a student life there?
So excited to have gotten in somewhere!

Accommodation-wise I was going to choose Stoke Bishop as it seems like the biggest halls area.

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Hi,
i know vet med course is very full on, but about how much of the teaching is done through lectures compared to small group teaching and practicals?
i'm guessing your studying at bristol from your earlier comments, but if not don't worry
thanks

Hi,

i have an offer from bristol and i have been looking at accommodation and i was wondering where you lived in your first year and where you would recommend??
Thanks

Its been a while since I was a fresher so I'll try to piece things together as best as I can:

Practicals - animal handling/husbandry (Thursday Afternoon), anatomy (Wednesday Morning), physiology (generally one afternoon) & histology (generally one morning)

Tutorials - physiology (30-60mins a week) & biochemistry (30-60mins a week)

The rest generally comprised of lectures to take you up to a 9-5 day.

The syllabus and the course is fairly similar wherever you go. While some places like to jump in with much more clinical based practicals and lectures earlier on in the course you can get more out of them once you have a good understanding of the basics at a later point in your course.

Hi,

Sorry about the delay in replying - I've been pretty busy on placements and revising.

I'm afraid I can't help too much with accommodation as I got in on results day and by the time I applied for accommodation there were no places left.
In terms of accommodation, the few big decisions you need to make are catered/self-catered, stoke bishop/clifton, cost and type of room (en-suite, etc.). My friends stayed in Durdham (apparently very friendly self-catered accomm), Goldney (very nice accomm in Clifton - along with Manor only 5 mins walk from the union and 20 mins walk from Southwell Street), Winkworth house (seemed ok, but they got pestered by the Union lot a few times and pestered to go to all their events) and Wills Hall (quite posh, more formal than the others).

Sorry, I can't help you any more than this.

Hey all,

For anyone that is applying to bristol vet school, i thought it would be handy to start a thread where you can ask any questions you like regarding Bristol Uni and the Vet course in particular, including applying, accreditation, etc.
I'm currently a 4th year Bristol vet student. I've had an interesting application process, and thought I could offer advice to those applying.

Thanks,

Karate_kat

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I'm quite keen to be in Clifton / city centre (self-catered) even though I know SB has quite a sociable reputation, so that I don't have to get out of bed quite so early for the 9-5 lectures! What's your opinion as a vet student on stoke bishop vs clifton?

Also, do you know any vets in student houses? Because colston street looks really good and a room with a basin is really cheap but I guess with only about 120 vets in a year, the chances of having another one in a student house is quite slim..

I also really like Goldney but it's a bit on the expensive side. I'm trying to balance between going somewhere cheap but finding a good social life too so some help would be greatly appreciated!

How heavy are the caseloads for small animal, farm animal and equine? Do you find one much quieter than the others or are they all busy?

Also, within these three are there biases towards surgery, medicine or orthopaedics?

I'm thinking of applying to do a clin path residency soon so it would be helpful to know the kind of work going through the lab.

You experiences would have been different to other people - perhaps you have seen something that other's haven't? Perhaps you are interested in something in particular that not everyone else is?

It's difficult to write a PS, I agree! I started off by writing a spider diagram. I looked at different section such as "skills/qualities useful for a vet (student) and examples", "work experience" (further divided into small, large, exotics/others), "achievements at school", "achievements outside of school", "why vet med? What inspired me to do this?"

From that I deleted anything not relevant to vet med as a career or student. I made sure every statement for a skill I was good at had an example. I wrote down what I learned from my wex placements rather than what I saw, either relating to the profession or the animals.

Then I wrote a PS under the following headings:

1. Intro - why vet med
2. Work experience (biggest paragraph)
3. Extra achievements
4. Conclusion.


I got my english GCSE teacher to proof read my spelling, I deleted stuff to shorten my PS and finally got people on here to check it in the PS help section for some more advise (which was much more useful than the school's advise!!)

I hope this is helpful.

Both skatealexia and I are PS helpers and so have seen a lot of PSes so feel free to contact either of us.

Thanks for your massive help on the forum. You give really good advice! I keep trying to positive rep you, but I think I've done it too much.