 I think growing up and having a lot of pets growing up and like frequenting the vet I always thought that you know there were things that if I were a vet I might do differently and I sort of harness this as an opportunity to to make a difference. College is really nice because you make a lot of friends that sort of become your family and you can complain about things or ask each other questions. From my placements that I've done out in practice this hospital definitely seems to be the most advanced that I've been to so it's really good being able to learn not just on the basic instruments that we'd be using out in practice but also that little bit extra that's not necessarily a day one skill for us but that we can sort of get a bit of an introduction to before we go out into practice and we start to if we want to specialise or if we just want to further our skills in certain areas. Every year I feel has got more interesting and especially in the final year really enjoying putting it all together and yeah it's great motivation to look back and review things we've learned earlier because we're seeing it in real life. It's just been really good not just from a learning aspect where I can sort of there's always a friend around going through with me that I can ask a question but also social aspect you've got plenty of ways to interact with younger year levels, older year levels it's easier to talk to different lecturers and staff members as well. I'm in charge of one of the patients in the hospital at the moment and I'm really enjoying being responsible and it definitely is a good confidence builder feeling like you know this could be me with this will be me next year and having great support around to talk to about any questions or concerns and discussing plans going forward with the patients so it's been great. When they have a case that comes in one of us has to take ownership of it and we really have to run that case like we were the actual vet we can't just be students anymore we do actually have to make sure we know what questions to ask where to leave the console where we can go for treatment so they've organised it really well to try and get us to be more independent especially leading up to graduating because this is stuff that we do need to know. I find most of the clients coming through the clinic they are quite plight and they're very understanding that this is a teaching hospital especially in terms of communication we're not as confident or fluent as a clinician. A couple of staff say if you have any problems like text me if you have a question at midnight or something you know a lot of them are quite open have a real open door policy the resources are fantastic. So in the final year the students clinical rotations are really a crowning piece of training for them. We view them as our junior colleagues on all of those core rotations and as our junior colleagues they get to start to be really coming to groups with all of the skills that you need when you're truthfully out in practice. I know the clinicians in private practice know it's a really great comfort to know there's such a great facility that patients can be referred to and yeah we're really lucky to be spending time with specialists in such a great facility.