Not My College ?

 Not really veterinary but an interesting angle none the less and one not often heard on the mainstream media. Worth a read. Why this Junior Doctor won't be striking If you want to read more posts, click on the arrow 🠈 on the top left of the page or on the 'MORE POSTS' button at the bottom. If you want updates from NMC click on the menu top left and select follow.

  Unconscious bias training: an eye-opening afternoon - link     Given that  Unconscious Bias  training is now mandatory for all Fellows and all Council Members, isn't it time to have a look at this expensive charade ? I first encountered it when I read the Chair of the Education Committee's piece about her 'eye-opening' experience. I haven't asked permission to quote her but the link is above , anyway here's the gist. 'A builder is having lunch. Asked to visualise the scene most people think of a the builder as a white guy, overweight, eating a meat pie and reading the sun, so far so realistic. Wrong, this is your  Unconscious Bias  kicking in, why couldn’t the builder be a black woman who drinks peppermint tea, eats falafel and reads the Financial Times? ' (I'm not making this up). You see how horribly biased you are, and it's unconscious too, bad vet, bad vet, bad, bad, bad, report for political re-education immediately ! If you want to try so

I sometimes think the only way the College survives is through the voluntary, willed disinterest of the membership. Most people actively avoid reading their relentlessly irrelevant newsletters or emails let alone the heavier stuff, which is probably just as well.  A good example of something that missed processing is the  RCVS Standards and Guidance for the Accreditation of Veterinary Degree Programmes 2023.   When hardly a week goes by without some reference, somewhere, in some RCVS communication, about mitigating ‘workforce issues,’ one can only wonder at a process that managed to produce 40 pages of ‘guidance’ for universities with hardly a mention of   improving the criteria for entry into the undergraduate degree course. No practical steps towards selection on the basis of proven vocation and not just exam results, nor of candidate maturity, nor of moving towards post graduate entry, nor of improving the gender balance, nor indeed of anything that might at the end of five years, p