LISTEN: Dr. Laurie Fonken focuses on helping students take care of themselves throughout the stressful journey of veterinary schooling and she speaks about the importance of bravery, self-love and the relief of having someone to talk to.
LISTEN: Today we're talking with Cindy Vaca, an almost graduated fourth-year vet student to get a very different perspective, and some tips on the experience of going through veterinary school.
LISTEN: Dr. Jeanne Ficociello is an excellent internal veterinary specialist from Boston and a former CSU Internal Medicine resident. Today she tells us about her experience of being a successful veterinary specialist while also living with an advanced kidney disease.
LISTEN: Today we talk to Zach Lake, a first-year vet student at CSU, about his fresh off the press experience and how he gets through it.
Dr. Tim Hackett is DVM, a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care, a professor, a father, and is currently the Director of the Vet Teaching Hospital at CSU. After 25 years working in veterinary emergency care, he’s definitely gotten the hang of balance and longevity in the job.
Dr. Melinda Frye is not only a veterinarian, but is also a Ph.D., board-certified internal specialist, the first female Associate Dean of Veterinary Academic and Student Affairs at CSU, and is on the board of the local humane society. Interestingly, she started her career as a nurse for humans.
Dr. Myra Barrett is a board-certified radiologist specializing in equine radiology, as well as President of the Large Animal Diagnostic Society, founding partner of Inside Information Radiology a telemedicine radiology company, Assistant Professor of Radiology at Colorado State University, and head of Equine Radiology.