Core Texts for Membership exam (Feline Medicine)

August JR, editor. Consultations in feline internal medicine. 5th and 6th edns. Elsevier Saunders, St Louis 2006 and 2010 respectively.
Chandler EA, Gaskell CJ & Gaskell RM, editors. Feline medicine and therapeutics. 3rd edn. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, 2004.
Sherding RG, editor. The cat — diseases and clinical management. Vols 1–2. 2nd edn. Churchill Livingstone, New York, 1994.

The cat — diseases and clinical management. Vols 1–2, 2nd edn, is a core text despite its age because no other comprehensive feline medicine text has been published since. Candidates must be aware that some of this material is now outdated and use up-to-date texts such as Consultations in feline medicine and other small animal texts in order to differentiate outdated material (eg drugs, treatments, microbe nomenclature etc) from unchanged data (eg haematology assessment, feline nutrition).

23 五月
2011

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有感而發

早上被爸媽的爭執聲吵醒，內容是每隔一陣子就會出現的「現在我可是拖著老命在賺錢養家」。
我爸有高血壓跟心臟病所以我媽一直很擔心他工作太拼，不出意料我爸果然把我的事搬出來吵，意思是他不拼哪裡有錢讓我出國。
基本上他是個很拉不下臉的人，可能以為這個理由會讓我媽妥協，他不知道的是我媽是全家最不看好我出國的人，她很理所當然的回「那她就不要去啊！你打算替她扛一輩子嗎！」

說實在的，打從開始我就知道我媽是這種態度，所以也沒奢望家裡會資助多少，也早就有負債幾百萬的心理準備（也許旁人看來我這種態度就叫作沒有心理準備）。但對於這種攸關生死未來的人生計畫，沒有錢真的很讓人不安，花上三五年的時間對我來說不算什麼，但之後有沒有辦法回收誰也說不準。

想當初推甄進去時系上還特地開了一個說明會，為的是要讓家長了解獸醫系未來的出路跟這個行業的辛苦，一方面是希望家長能夠支持孩子的決定，另一方面則是讓無法接受的家長可以盡早認清事實，要嘛放棄要嘛準備轉系或轉學。

現在想想，當初我爸媽完全沒有反對我走這條路，我也很高興我一路走來都沒有後悔過，
雖然接下來看似是原地踏步，我自己走的也是很膽顫心驚，但就算妳經濟上不支持我，至少心靈上站在我這邊吧。

25 四月
2011

Posted in: 職業病
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[ACVSc] Membership Examination

Candidates for Membership of the College should be eligible for registration as a veterinarian in an Australian State or in New Zealand. Council may at its discretion approve a candidate who has veterinary qualifications recognised as being equivalent to Australasian qualifications.

Candidates must have spent at least four years in a full-time veterinary activity between graduation and taking the examination. An exception may be made at the discretion of, and after application to, the Chief Examiner. However, no candidate may attempt the examination sooner than 3½ years after graduating.

Candidates who have not had the opportunity of working intensively in a limited field of activity and in a situation where an opportunity for learning from other veterinarians is available would well be advised to prolong their preparation period to six or even eight years.

Applicants will be assessed on their knowledge and skills at the Membership examination. Performance in the Membership examination is assessed on the basis that the candidate shall achieve a pass mark of 70% or above as detailed in section 10.5 and 10.6.

Although Membership of the College indicates that the member has some expertise and competence in the nominated area, it is important to note that Fellowship is the College qualification that signifies the standard required by those seeking veterinary specialist registration.

2 四月
2011

Posted in: 我也想吃蘋果啊
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[app] 4種iPhone Twitter app比較 (Twitter, TweetDeck, Echofon, TwitBird)

我用TweetDeck也蠻長一段時間了，其實也沒什麼不方便的地方但就是覺得哪裡不對勁，唯一的不滿應該是無法把自己的tweet刪除吧，想刪還得開網頁版twitter真的讓我很惱怒，於是我秉持著下一個會更好的心態開始逛app store，反正這本來就是我的興趣之一….
噴了一堆電最後鎖定了兩個：Echofon跟TwitBird，其他要收費的自然不在我的考慮範圍內，以下就幾個我比較在意的功能作整理，這是龜毛人的天性。

[app] Zite

很多人認為Flipborad是iPad必備app之一，它的版面配置的確很棒，原本我打算拿來作為RSS Reader（另一個廣受好評的Pulse我也用不慣）跟追蹤facebook及twitter，但當我發現它不會按照時間順序顯示的時候一整個很失望，再怎麼漂亮的排版也是沒用。所以當我看到Zite這個號稱Flipboard殺手的app上架時，說實話沒抱多少期待，只是存著反正免費的心態下載來玩玩。
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27 三月
2011

Posted in: Manga｜comics
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