Mind Matters Intitiative Campfire Chat: Students and new graduates

Date: Wednesday 26th May 2021

Opening times: 7:00 - 8:00pm

Venue: Online

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Join the MMI Team and our amazing guests for an informal delve into themes and topics that matter to the veterinary community. Open to all, these free online panel sessions offer a chance to pause, reflect and learn from our guests’ experiences of navigating life and work during Covid-19.

This has been a particularly challenging time for students and new graduates, with changes to EMS, long periods of remote learning and worries about finding work in a global pandemic. Join tonight’s panel for a discussion on how students can new graduates can look after themselves and each other and what the wider community can do to welcome and support the next generation of veterinary professionals.

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Panel Guests

Calum McIntyre, AVS President

Calum is a current 4th year student at the University of Edinburgh and President of the Association of Veterinary Students (AVS). After two years out before undertaking his studies, Calum has used the skills learnt working in hospitality and other team environments in several roles, both with AVS and on committees at the vet school in Edinburgh. With the objective of using his passion and platform to maximise students' experiences, Calum has been active in establishing initiatives, projects, committees and talks to hopefully benefit his peers.

Still early in his veterinary journey, Calum is looking to the future with an open mind, fully aware of the huge potential that a veterinary degree offers. He hopes to enter clinical practice, both bolstering existing and developing new skills, before finding a niche that suits his ever-evolving interests within veterinary medicine.

Dr Fabian Rivers MRCVS

Fabian Rivers graduated in 2018 from University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno. He is currently an exotics and companion animal vet in Birmingham. More commonly known as Dready Vet an initiative started in 2013, he has written, featured and given talks to a variety of veterinary and non veterinary publications, universities and initiatives. He is the British Veterinary Association recent graduate representative and is a keen contributor on topics surrounding mental health, racism, new graduate and student welfare, and the wider complexities of the veterinary community. In 2020, he was awarded BVA Young Vet of the Year.

He is currently undertaking a certificate in exotic animal practice clinically and has mentored students on exotic specific casework when going into practice. He is also one of the vets on the Pets Factor, a children’s TV show on the CBBC, mainly placed as the exotics focused member of the team.

Remi Onabolu RVN

Having qualified as an Registered Veterinary Nurse in 2019 from the Royal Veterinary College, Remi has continued her studies at RVC, having recently enrolled onto the Veterinary Medicine Course.

Remi has a keen interest in small animal emergency critical care and surgery, but also wants to encourage interprofessionalism between vet and nursing students. Having been a student during the pandemic, she has had to adjust to online learning whilst balancing working part-time.

Outside of University, Remi keeps busy with pole fitness and planning educational talks as Vice-President of the Interprofessional Club at the RVC.