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It has been a reeeeally long time since my last post, not without a reason. Let me update you a little bit with what I have been so busy in the last 6 months. During the last month of my stay at Vienna faculty I was informed that I got accepted for a Small Animal Rotating Internship at the faculty of Munich. It was just crazy! I have been to Munich just once before (when invited for a probe week of work) and would never think that it would become my new home for the next year. As they normally do not take candidates just after graduating, it was indicated in my case to go there month earlier to get some more training. That meant going directly from Vienna at the end of May. There was a little complication though :)
The intensity of work in the last year caused me an inguinal hernia which I did not want to operate at all (lack of time) but my mother insisted a lot that I fix it before going to Munich. So I had 3 days to get my surgery done and move everything from Vienna to Munich...so I did! With the help of God (and little support of Tramal) i made it safe to the Bavaria.
During my recovery next weeks I was getting familiar with the computer system of the clinic, with the standard procedures with clients when treating the patients etc. In order to obtain a license to be a Vet in Bavaria I had to submit tones of different documents (spending over 200 euro just to have them translated). I also had to do a special course about radiation protection in order to do the x-rays or radiation therapy (additional cost of 330 euro). In the meantime I was learning intensively German or I just rather say Bavarian :)
July, 1 I became officially an Intern! This means a lot of hard work but on the other so much fun! Let me explain a bit how we work. 8 of us rotate through different services, including internal medicine, neurology, cardiology, oncology, emergency and critical care, anesthesia, surgery and dermatology. Each of us has to do certain amount of night shifts. That means being alone at the clinic, receiving all kinds of emergencies coming 24 hours a day. If the patient is stable enough to be sent home with the medications, we do a follow up in the next couple of days (or if they completely recover then never hear from them any more). If the patient requires being hospitalized he stays over night and in the morning the proper service takes care of him.
Apart from clinical work we have a lot of opportunities of training. I love attending journal clubs (chance to hear about some new treatment methods, studies outcomes) when also I can hear some personal experiences of our board-certified specialist in any field. Once a week one of them is discussing a different topic with us or we do cases. We also have cytologies rounds and some hands on practice like endoscopy workshops. I am absolutely amazed of the speed of learning that way which makes me really happy and satisfied about my job :) As a university clinic I have chance to treat more complicated cases which makes it even more challenging.
If any of you is interested to follow up some papers we discuss or have some more complicated cases to work-up I am more than happy to hear from you,
Take care
Katarzyna Purzycka, DVM
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