Discover insights from first-year veterinary student Sophia Jodka on balancing academics and personal interests during pre-veterinary and veterinary school.
With school starting back up again soon, there will be classes full of first year veterinary students ready to begin their careers within the industry. On this week’s episode of The Vet Blast Podcast presented by dvm360, our host Adam Christman, DVM, MBA, sat down with Sophia Jodka, a veterinary student at Colorado State University and a member of the dvm360 student ambassador program, to talk about her life as a first year veterinary student and her work with the American Pre Veterinary Medical Association (APVMA). Throughout the episode, Christman and Jodka emphasize the importance of balancing veterinary medicine and personal interests, her research on West Nile Virus and preventing type 2 diabetes in a teenage girl, and more.
Below is a partial transcript, edited lightly for clarity…