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Patrick is Professor of Veterinary Surgery and Remote and Rural Medicine and Director of the Dick Vet Equine Hospital in Practice. In this extra post, Patrick Pollock explores the practice of ‘crofting’, and its place in the current veterinary recruitment crisis.
Moreover, meaningful work experience or employment can be seen as critical for a number of professions – a mechanism to distinguish between graduates with the same 2:1 degree but with differing employability capital. To what extent is studentemployment detrimental?
Patrick is Professor of Veterinary Surgery and Remote and Rural Medicine and Director of the Dick Vet Equine Hospital in Practice. It is a privilege, and it is fun, to teach clinical veterinary medicine to final year Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery (BVM&S) students. “What is a crofter?
The community engagement and social responsibility aspects help our students in a vocational degree to be aware of the society they are working with, and give them insights into what area of medicine may suit them – both facets further supporting their own development and their employability.
Paul Wood Paul Wood is currently Senior Lecturer in Farm Animal Practice and the Principal Clinician of the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies’s Farm Animal Practice and Hospital.
Several researchers highlight the multiple vulnerabilities experienced by students as a peripheral casualised workforce ( Alberti et al , 2018 ; Ioannou and Dukes, 2021 , Rydzik and Kissoon, 2022 ). Findings The research presents a picture in line with existing data on students’ employment during the pandemic.
Use studentemployment as a retention strategy Many younger students already need to balance work and academics. More than 70% of part-time and nearly 40% of full-time students under the age of 24 work while enrolled in college. They can combine online and face-to-face options to create the right balance for their lives.
Make the task undertaken valuable But some students choose to shadow less obvious roles, including the hospital chaplain, orthopaedic plaster technician, morgue attendant, or lifeboatman. The student’s task is to analyse the professional’s team, and what makes it work effectively (or otherwise, sometimes).
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