Professionalism

Confidentiality

  • Maintaining confidentiality is an essential professional requirement and is frequently raised as an issue by placement providers
    • It is never too early to start learning this ‘skill’
  • Don’t discuss named places of work or individuals:
    • In front of other professionals e.g. do not discuss one farmer’s lambing losses with another
    • In public where you could be overheard
    • Once back at the vet school
    • On a social network site
  • And think about how a member of the public would feel if they saw this:
Unprofessional twitter message