Veterinary Medicine 2013 hopefuls! (again, early...)

I'm hoping to apply in 2013
Although my current work experience status is pretty dismal compared to some of yours...
2 weeks at different small animal practice
3 months of Saturday afternoons spent at Cats Protection
1 week at VLA [seriously recommend it, got to see post mortems and everything, was amazing!]
1 day lambing [yes, 1 day, but hopefully I can go back for longer next year ]
2 weeks hopefully at different large animal vets, organising now.
And hopefully will be spending many Saturdays at my riding stables soon.

I need to find some friendly dairy farmers that will have me for a couple of weeks. Thing is, I can't actually understand what half of them here say! Must brush up on my farmer speak!

Any of you have any ideas as to what you want to apply for as your 5th choice, other than veterinary? I'm thinking pharmacy or bioveterinary, but thinking I may have to get some pharmacy work experience if I'm to apply and get an offer? Anyone know? Thank you!

wow that is a major amount of work experience - your gonna have loads after you've completed your planned ones yay have you decided which unis to apply to yet?

I'm pretty sure I'm going to apply to liverpool, nottingham and bristol again but I'm thinking about applying to RVC instead of Edinburgh. you???

Remember to join the facebook group everyone http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/321094924605336/

I found it really helpful last year and it was good to know when people started to get offers and stuff

I've been trying to get work experience at the VLA!! How did you manage it?
Which one did you go to aswell?

ive actually applied to veterinary nursing at nottingham trent, harper adams, hartpury college and rvc . i wish there had been a group like that for vet nursing

Just finished paying for my trip to South Africa, and booked the flights as well - no turning back now! First time I've ever left the country by myself, it's gonna be scaaaaary. But I get to play with cheetahs, so hopefully it will all be worth it

I thought it was only if you had an interview first time around, but you can only apply there twice for vet med

Finally going lambing tomorrow after 5 months of planning! Very excited and a little bit nervous! It's more hands on than other work ex isn't it?

It is indeed! More hands in, in fact! :P I've done a bit during this Easter hols, deffo my favourite placement so far! It's just generally more full on and I've found that I get more free roam lambing than with other placements. We even did a ram autopsy last week!
Enjoy it as much as I did

Oh I hope I get to take part in more things than I did with my other placements. I'd love to see a ram autopsy! I've seen a kitten autopsy, it was good but because it was so tiny it was hard to see everything clearly.
I'm sure I will! Thank you!

I'm sure you will get to do more, I've found both with this farm and a dairy farm that they're keen to make use of work exp'ers as an extra pair of hands!
Haha yeah, didn't have any issues seeing the ram's organs - although it was literally just a few of us in a field with a knife and a saw, after the farmer asked us what killed his lamb :L We managed to draw some conclusions from it though, all interesting stuff
Take a pen-knife too btw - I forgot mine one day - they are useful with the straw bales and twine! (We were set other tasks in between lambing) I also managed to completely stain my one hand with iodine (lambs wriggle :L ) - wear old clothes, though that's probably a given :L

Yeah! I found that with my dairy farm placement! Argh, trying to bite through twine is almost impossible and hay is the tastiest thing in the world.

I think I will find my swiss army knife, hopefully it didn't get left behind when we moved.

Haha! I've managed to do that in chemistry, so i'm almost guaranteed to whilst lambing!

Let me know how it goes! What jobs will you be doing and where are you staying? I'm going to Australia this summer for work exp Pretty nervous and its 2 days traveling on my own! I am going to be sharing a volunteers house with other volunteers so should be fun I have been saving up for about 8months working 5 days a week on top of school including both Saturday and Sunday!... -.- So really hope its worth it Africa sounds amazinggggg though!

oops think i've posted this twice now..

Im goin to Australia too the flights sound really scary tho changin planes is what im really worried about ill get lost or something :s tho im sure it will be worth it Australias beautiful what you doin there???

I know I'm worried about that too! Hope they speak english in Dubai as I only have 2 hours to swap planes...:/ There are 3 flights each way. I'm working at a wallaby and wombat sanctuary and they said I would be able to get involved in the vet consultations there too Sooo excited! How about you?