Do’s – General
- Do organise your placements well in advance
- Finding your own placement: start looking early as good placements may get booked up
- University organised placements: get in contact with the practice as soon as you have their details, or when advised by your college
- If you know of an appropriate placement, you should let your university placement administrator know
- Do organise placements at appropriate practices
- Are they approved by your college? (e.g. an RCVS Training Practice – a list can be obtained from the RCVS website)
- Specialist or referral centres may seem exciting places to go but may not provide you with the basic training of reception work and interaction with clients. They will however be very suitable for later years of your course as the work will be much more relevant to your studies
- Do you need equine experience? Remember this can also be obtained during your holidays at riding schools and livery yards
- Try to build a rapport with a good practice and then spend several of your placement weeks with them throughout 1st, 2nd and 3rd year