My suggestion- get yourself a piece of paper, a phone book/ internet, charge up your cell phone, close yourself in a room and start calling away. Seriously. Call, call, call. Call places an hour away, two hours away, just keep calling and emailing. Someone out there wants to help you, you have to find them. When you do find them, do the film based X-rays during first semester. Had I done that, it wouldn't have been as hard finding a place to do them because everyone will be switched over eventually. I got VERY lucky that I found a place to do film based x-rays in a small, sleepy town just 30 minutes away. Do them correctly the first time, read the instructions (like OFA study in DOGS only). If you do it on a cat and it gets rejected and the clinic switches over, guess what? You're screwed. If you find a place to do the film based X-rays, do the X-rays FIRST. What if you find a place, fill out paperwork, great you're approved but when you go to do them, they're switched to digital but didn't call you to come in and do the x-rays? Just be wise and take advantage of a blessing when it hits you in the face because you might not get another chance if you don't. And I'm being serious, now. I have followed the message board my entire ten months of being in this program, I'm at the Clinical 2 stage now, I'm about done. This is the point where a lot of people have no choice but to quit because they can't find a large animal site or film- based site. And that's a hard pill to swallow, especially if you're one of those people. If you do get blessed with all what you're looking for, TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT and do not screw around with it. I have been nothing short of blessed because I have found what I've been looking for. And that's never far from my mind. I'm in this fight for everyone's certification and want to see everyone succeed.
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