A Tree Needs Water, Light, Nutrients, Air and Protection to Grow/develop: What About You as a Vet?

So you’re fresh out of vet school – your head is buzzing with facts and procedures.
What you don’t know about the principles of equine disease management is not worth knowing.
But as you go forth into the yards and fields around your new practice, suddenly it all seems very different. The senior partner likes things done his way. The clients even more so.
Suddenly you don’t just know stuff, everyone is looking at you to do stuff, to recommend stuff, and to be convincingly authoritative at the same time.
Just like when we learn to drive and most of the learning takes place after you’ve passed your test, so it is with veterinary medicine. We all learn on the job every single day of our professional lives, and anyone who says they don’t is just not doing it right!

Continuing personal and professional development
According to the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS), the recommended minimum amount of continuing professional development (CPD) to be undertaken is 105 hours over a rolling 3-year period with an average of 35 hours per year. It is expected and acknowledged however, that most vets will do considerably more. [...]