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Locums learning the ropes

VETERINARY practices have a great deal in common, but there are also huge differences in the day-to-day minutiae of how they run. A locum coming to work in a practice for the first time cannot be expected to have the same familiarity with its procedures as a permanent member of staff. Christine Shield suggests that a little forethought from an employer to help a new locum to navigate their way around the practice's systems will pay dividends.

Christine Shield graduated from Edinburgh in 1983. She works freelance, after having sold the single-handed small animal practice that she ran for 17 years. She is a past-president of the SPVS and the North of England Veterinary Association and a council member of the RCVS and BVA.