Calvings, Caesareans and Everything Inbetween! | Dr. Kaitlyn Hele

In this episode, Dr. Lottie chats with Dr. Kaitlyn Hele to discuss everything about mixed practice, especially going into it as your first job. We cover everything from how Kaitlyn finds switching her brain between species, what any new vet has to know before starting in mixed practice, the expectations you need to set and what her go to snacks are!

Kaitlyn is an Australia-based vet and graduated from the University of Queensland 3 years ago. She picked up as much experience as possible in mixed practice throughout her time in vet school and hasn’t looked back since, starting straight away as a mixed vet in her first job. She shares incredible insights into the world of mixed practice and gives her honest opinions on what we should actually know before going into similar roles.

Kaitlyn’s Recommendations:
Manual of Small Animal Surgery by Theresa Fossum
https://vetapedia.com.au/ (quick drug CRI resources!)
Veterinary Field Guide to Cattle Medicine from Cattle Vet AU

Where to find Kaitlyn:
Instagram: @justvetthings
TikTok: @drkaitlynh

Find us on TikTok & Instagram: @veterinaryvista

Timeline:
00:00 Intro
00:48 Kaitlyn’s Path into Vet Med
10:11 Communication with Different Clients
18:18 Switching Between Species
19:46 What You HAVE to Know Before Starting Mixed
32:36 Is Balance a Myth?
37:37 Getting Into Mixed
43:05 Quickfire Qus
48:11 Outro

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