BIF Experience

[ja09]

I'm not sure if this has been posted yet, but I have two quick questions regarding the experience section on the BIF. 

If you have employment experience which involved animal experience, would you include this in both the "animal experience" section and the "other employment experience" section, or just the "animal experience" section?

Similarly, if you have extracurricular experience that involves animals and would thus fall under animal experience, would this only be included under the "animal experience" section, or would you also include it under the "extracurricular and community activities" section?

Thanks for the help!

[83838]

The extracurricular experience and employment experience section is for experience you have that is additional to vet/animal experience but is not animal or vet experience. So you only need to put it down once.

[guest1620]

I had a job that required me to work with animals SOME of the time. I just put it down twice, explaining the associated roles in each category. The important thing: I divided up the hours so that the portion of the time I worked with animals was represented properly.

I did it this way because it was a laboratory job that I had for a while. I felt it was misleading to say that I had >1000 hrs working with lab animals, when I really only worked with them a fraction of the time. It was a component of the job, but not my only duty by a long shot.

[guest 0283]

I was just wondering if low amounts of animal experience (less then 50 hours) would be a red flag for whether or not you'd get an interview. Even if the veterinary clinics you've volunteered/worked at were boarding facilities as well so you've been exposed to "normal" animal experience.

Thanks

[lowenger]

I'm not sure what you mean by 'normal' animal experience. You haven't talked about veterinary experience but yes, if the hours are very low it may flag your application. If you truly want to be a veterinarian you should try to experience first hand what they do to be sure this is for you. But the number of hours isn't as important as what you actually do and learn during your time there.

[Guest 0283]

I have a lot of quality and varied veterinary experience (more the 1000 hours). The most of the clinics I've worked at also boarded animals and did grooming; I worked with every aspect of the clinic but I have very little non veterinary animal experience that I did out side of a veterinary clinic. So I was just wondering if that would be a flag that ould prevent me from getting an interview should I be in the top 200.

[lowenger]

Why would you think that?

[Futurevet18]

I think as long as you have quality vet experience, the rest is fine. I listed 20 hours with birds, 40 hours with horses etc... Not a ton of time but I can't see why it would be a problem, since I have lots of quality vet experiences with lots of hours. 20 hours of birds is better than none and atleast they'll know I'm not afraid to handle them, even if I'm no expert! That was my thinking anyways.