Recent content by JaynaAli

That’s impossible to predict because every program is different and every applicant is different. I will say that in my own opinion when I was reviewing applicants for residency after years ago, class rank was more informative to me than GPA. The grades at the institution I went to for...

That’s going to vary from school to school. Most of the US based distributive places (such as Western, LMU, etc) seem to mostly send students to private/corporate GP and specialty hospitals not affiliated with any universities. Sometimes students make arrangements for a rotation at another...

Facilities alone are a major initial financial investment, and even the established schools are having difficulty maintaining staffing, because specialists can make significantly more in private practice and not deal with academia bureaucracy. Why would a new school go to that trouble and...

Sure. The main topic at our pathology conference this past year was AI applications. IDEXX announced an upcoming AI analyzer for ear cyto and blood with the promise of fna analysis capabilities earlier this year. But I think like anything, we’ll just have to adapt and embrace it. Who knows what...

When you look at it broadly, they’re very similar. Similar competitiveness for residency spots and for jobs. On paper there’s more AP residencies and more AP jobs, but there’s also more APs out in the world. There’s a similar boards pass rate nowadays. It does seem like there’s more of a push...

I think the main thing that you need to do is work on those vet hours. We really need to see more, but if your career goals are research, places may be a little more forgiving on and a couple hundred may be enough. However, they’re still gonna want to see some hours, because what if you get to...

I have to mow every two weeks, and to be honest, the last two summers I have probably the second worst yard on the block. Maybe third worst this year since my newest neighbor didn’t spray for weeds. Everyone else mows more often than I do except the old guy across the street. I can’t make...

Your GPAs seem fine. Your vet experience hours are on the lower side but not too bad…more will certainly help though. More breadth in experience hours certainly wouldn’t hurt. I was thinking as I read through that I wondered if your essays were the issue, so I’d definitely spend time thinking...

I’m not saying there aren’t areas that need more vets in general. But, in my opinion, the solution isn’t to open up TWELVE new programs all within a year or two of each other. A gradual increase in class sizes or new programs to address need is one thing, but if these are all approved we’re...

If they don’t have teaching hospitals, they won’t have a caseload (and likely not the needed number of specialists) to be able to train residents. So there’ll likely be more competition for the same number of spots.

Yeah, my best friend works rural mixed and I know she makes under 70k. She has a 4.5 day workweek but she doesn’t do on-call…her boss covers all the call except for major holidays when she’ll do a couple days. She might make more at another clinic but she’s willing to accept what she has to not...

I haven’t done an Ohio license but I can confirm that the state I did get licensed in required you to be officially graduated. Because of my internship start date I pretty much had to apply the moment after graduation when I had my diploma in hand so it would get approved by my start date. (Aka...

This is my experience too. Doctors, dentists, etc. ask what I do, I tell them I’m a veterinary pathologist, and then they ask what education is involved in that. Then they’re mind is blown (especially the MDs) when I explain that I had to do an internship and residency just like they did.

Hopefully people are looking at post dates, since what you quoted was from 14 years ago. I doubt anyone is surprised tuition doubled over that time. But still good to point out that it’s no longer true in case people didn’t realize most of the replies here are very old.

Honestly though, even the “old” schools are struggling to maintain specialists…I can’t imagine 14 or how ever many proposed programs there are going to even attract the bare bones needed for a school (for administration, basic classroom education, etc.) even without the numbers needed to run a...