The diary of Chris Allen through his vet student years.
Today’s Diary Entry is sponsored by CarPet Best Pet Hair Remover Well I’ve just finished semester 2 of vet school, now its just for exams and then I’ll have finished my first year of vet school! It’s still not really Continue reading The end of Semester 2
Today’s Diary Entry is sponsored by Pets Bureau Today we started looking at Virology, which is the study of viruses. Within the veterinary field this is extremely important as there are significant zoonotic diseases (diseases that pass between humans and Continue reading The start of Veterinary Virology
Today’s Diary Entry is sponsored by Pet Hooligans Well today was interesting as we are looking at Gram positive bacteria which are different to the Gram negative bacteria that we have been studying previously. The grouping into gram negative and Continue reading How to do a Gram Stain… What a difference a wall makes! (Day 215)
Today’s Diary Entry sponsored by CarPET Pet Hair Remover Well this morning I went to my hospital appointment, half hoping that she would do the surgery today. I arrived at the hospital at 8am and was straight into radiography (x-ray) Continue reading Visiting the hospital and calculating the mineral content of feed (Day 173)
Today’s Diary Entry is sponsored by Spikes World The end of my second week back in my second semester of vet school and today is a killer. Animal Nutrition started at 8am and I am solidly in lectures and practicals Continue reading Microbiology, Nutrition, and Emergency Fluid Therapy… (Day 166)
Today’s Diary Entry is sponsored by Scampers Pet Shop The end of week 1 of semester 2, this week has literally flown by and I am honestly not sure where my time has vanished too! Its been interesting as now Continue reading Animal Nutrition, and the start of Special Bacteriology (Day 159)
Todays Diary Entry is sponsored by: YOUR BUSINESS HERE Something that has been my mantra of vet school so far is it is the quantity of information that I have needed to learn rather than the complexity (jinxed myself for Continue reading 13 Weeks of Vet School… (Day 117)
Today was my day of Microbiology, one of my favourite days of the week as the practicals are always interesting. And as the rest of the week is bank holiday and rector days the last day of school this week. Continue reading The last of General Microbiology, looking at PCR… (Day 50)
My day of Microbiology, and my first ever Microbiology test, I am slightly nervous as every professor has their own way of doing tests and so far it’s been pretty different in each case. We’ve been told that it is Continue reading Microbiology Test, and Antimicrobial Resistance… (Day 43)
Another day of Microbiology with just a week until my first microbiology test so things are getting intense. I’ve got a ton of revision to do next weekend into the different tests used and why they are used which is Continue reading Good vs. Bad Bacteria… (Day 36)