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The start of my PgDip… (weekly diary #26)

The joy of learning and developing is one of the greatest benefits of the veterinary profession. Now I’ve hopefully finished my CertAVP I am moving onto my postgraduate diploma (PgDip) and shortly hopefully my masters. I’ve decided to continue with the University of Liverpool for this as I like the online format that allows me…

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The end around the bend… (weekly diary #17)

Lockdown 2 This past week I have been on days. We entered lockdown again on Thursday. With lockdown we are still working as we have been, though the specialist departments have been separated into their own teams. This showed benefit yesterday as one of the teams has to now isolate as a team member tested…

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Catching up, module exam, and learning – (weekly diary #6)

As I sit and write this I am exhausted. This has been my hardest week of nights so far. In addition to our own normal workload, we picked up the workload of another OOH practice. Luckily this was only for four nights (out of seven) however it added another 10 practices to those we normally…

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Doodles, sleep, and conferences (weekly diary #1)

This was my off week. I finished my run of nights on Monday morning so this week is mostly recovery and getting my sleep pattern normal. I’ve been struggling with this recently though, with it taking me several days to go back to normal. And even now my sleep is weird – somewhere between 6pm-2am.…