I’m now a week into the final chapter of this five year UoB veterinary science sentence and the end is so close it makes me nervous just thinking about it. I’ve got 2wks of the elective rotation to complete, 2wks of revision and then it’s finals, scary stuff! And though I’m heading into cliché territory “time’s literally flown by”; if I didn’t know for sure that I’ve been on this course for 5yrs then consulting my brain would state time spent studying in Bristol to be no longer than a year with an incredible amount squeezed in. (don’t worry I’ll stop with the nostalgia, there’ll no doubt be unbearable quantities at the end of this term).

Life back in Langford started aprox 3wks ago when I moved back in for Easter holiday ems. I managed 2wks at Derby home before this where time was spent completing my last wk of real ems and generally relaxing/studying at home before hardcore revision had to commence. The ems wk was equine in Derby, I could have done some farm but my equine knowledge is pretty atrocious so unfortunately I had no choice. In Langford over the Easter hols I had my absolute final wk of ems to complete which was a surgical CAS wk on site. These are normally far from ideal as you spend 7days checking animals and generally being a university clerking bitch, however due to multiple bank hols and congress the case load was minimal. Therefore time over Easter hols was mainly spent revising or having essential neighbours/Wilson exercise tape revision breaks (no more details on this subject).

Currently final year students are completing their elective rotations, mine being surgery. When we received the forms last term to indicate are elective preferences I really didn’t apply enough consideration as to what putting surgery as my first choice could entail, as now I’ve way too much work to get anything like enough revision done. Most other electives seem to be based around giving students as much teaching as poss as organisers know finals are so incredibly soon. However unfortunately surgery is always way to busy to afford anyone cast under it’s shadow of stress any free time. Apparently future years have complained about the rotation and as such we’ve a few tutorials and clinicians are definitely trying to involve the students as much as poss, it just comes down to the fact that the surgical department here is so crazy busy. I think if I had my choice again I’d have gone for imaging, clinical pathology or farm. However I do enjoy surgery most, I just wish I had some spare time to actually get some revision done. Though once the elective is over there’s still 17days to get some hardcore revision done before the first viva.
The finals consist of 5vivas and 2steeple chase examinations. There’s basically a smalls, equine, farm, farm plus live cow and a vph viva. The steeple chase exams consist of one CAS and one FAS computer based exam.Will give more info on nearer the time.

As far as anything particaulaly fun is concerned I’ve managed to get out and about a couple of times over the past few wks. Me and Dave had a comedy night out in Taunton when I recruited him for moral support/wingman purposes. Highlights of the night included crazy hats, lots of dancing, fox cubs, a broken now well hidden mop and Dave doing an anaesthetic early the next morning when the GA’ed animal was probably more with it him. Also I had a fun night out at the pubs of Nether Stwoey last Fri with Laura, potentially more news at a later date.

Well that’s enough for now as I’m tired, I meant to write this at some point during the day but got further and further behind work wise. Hopefully will report in again nxt w.e.

TTFN xx