Aaron Huang

• The usual specialist nursing duties, with a very strong emphasis on the highest standard of patient care

• Tutoring of first year veterinary students during the course anatomy dissection lab practical's. These are 3-4 hr anatomy dissection practicals

Digestion, Metabolism & Nutrition (VETS1003)

Functional Anatomy of Locomotion & the Integument (VETS1021)

• Working with a 9 person to arrange UQ Gatton's Vet school extracurricular events relating to small animal surgery and medicine
• Organizing an excess of more than 19 different events spanning the whole year, Annually
• The focus on practical engaging workshops, bringing in the latest clinical information, connecting students to the practicing community and strengthening our communities passion for being small animal vets
• 290 members out of approximately 550 total UQ vet students
• More than happy to share more about SAMS.

Weekly 2 hrs Journal Club, where student members rotate turns to present and critically evaluate a recent journal article to students members, with the supervision and support of American and Australian boarded specialists.

• GP veterinary nurse and reception, medicine and surgery nursing usual stuff.

• General GP veterinary nursing
• Plus grooming and washing dogs
• Was a pre-vet work experience from Nov 2019, which became a job offer.

Surgical and consulting experiance

A self arranged placement of two weeks. Experiencing Ohio State students internal medicine rotations. Rotation required high case responsibility and management 6am to 7pm. Expectations of independent consulting, patient treatments and detailed daily round presentations to residents and attendings. A high case load of urinary disease patients.

Time was also spent shadowing imaging residents.

VEG externship program. Two weeks. I have a copy of their internal evaluation of my performance, which I am more than happy to provide.

A short spontaneous externship experience, organised while in New York City. ECC, Surgery, Internal Med and Anaesthesia.

Spontaneously organised placement while in New York City.

When my veterinary university and the clinics procedural schedule lines up, I assist with surgical procedures.

• two week self arranged placement, gaining surgical and consulting experience. (first spey and lumpectomy)

• A week of self arranged placement, during vet school

• AES is in the same building as Veterinary Specialist Services, so when I finish my evening nursing shifts at VSS hop on over to do shadowing help out (emergency stuff) etc

Volunteer at the Australian Small Animal and Veterinarians / Vet Business Group conference.

• Australian Veterinary Association Annual Conference 2022.

• VetPrac is Dr Margie McEwan's company which runs brilliant practical 2 day in person further education events taught by industry experts
• Topics range is very wide and ever expanding, the topics can be seen on their website
• List of the workshops I have/will be volunteering at: Nerve and local blocks, Ultrasound, Fracture repair.

Being a friendly face, talking to the general public about the level of care and expertise the Cat Specialist Services offers. What made this experience stand out was how different the crowd was to a usual veterinary conference, most productive interactions began with - "Did you know that vets can specialise?".

• Once a month "Pets in the park", a group of vets and vet nurses volunteer their time to help less fortunate communities to receive veterinary care for free
• Eg parasite control, vaccinations and other procedures.

2022, 2023 and 2024, I have been involved with the "Vets for Life " program, which welcomes the newly accepted first year vet students to the UQ veterinary community.

• Animal enrichment during the evening
• Basically learnt handling and cuddling of lots of different temperament dogs
• Figuring out if vet was right for me.

• Veterinary clinic where I have done work experience on occasion, I put the end date of the lat time I was there
• Initial arranged this to figure out if vet was right for me.

• Work experience when figuring out if vet was right for me.

• School had a strong culture of successfully competing chess on a national level
• I was paid to weekly manage, learning resource creating and teaching of multiple 15-30 student classes.