Clinics

Jun 17
4 min

I Don't Deserve to Be a Doctor

“Kristi, how does it feel to be a 4th year student but also a doctor at the same time?” This was a comment asked to me in the middle of a...

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Kristi

Jan 15
5 min

Externship (Part 2)

IndyHumane If you read my last rotation post about the first 3 weeks of my 6-week externship, I spent it in the suburbs of Chicago at gen...

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Kristi

Jan 15
3 min

Externship (Part 1)

Externship Part 1: Small Animal General Practice During clinics we get 6 weeks to go off campus for our externships. These can be split i...

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Kristi

Dec 17, 2019
2 min

Wildlife Medicine + Conservation

Block 4: Wildlife Medicine + Conservation Block 4 sent me back to my favorite place in the world, South Africa. Many of you followed my e...

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Kristi

Dec 13, 2019
5 min

Public Health +Wildlife Medicine

Block 3: Malawi If you’ve been following my vet school journey via Instagram, you know that I spent my third block in Lilongwe, Malawi. W...

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Kristi

Dec 12, 2019
1 min

Diagnostic Imaging

Click here to read about my time on diagnostic imaging

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Kristi

Jul 23, 2019
1 min

Large Animal Surgery

A recap on my time in large animal surgery and my thoughts on working with large animals with little prior experience. Check out the two ...

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Kristi

May 31, 2019
4 min

Failing Forward

May 6 was the first day of clinics. I had been dreaming about this moment since I started vet school. But things didn't go as planned.

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Kristi

Sep 21, 2018
3 min

Keeping Your "Life Plan" Adaptable

I knew all my life that I wanted to be in the medical field and the majority of that time was spent wanting to be a veterinarian. There w...

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