VetSurgeon Profiles

RE: VetSurgeon Profiles

Arlo Guthrie — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 13:27:40 GMT

[quote user="Neil Wheadon"]

and for long resumes. My CV is pretty much everything aside taking referrals. The system has removed my first job (no scroll down available) which was at Westmoor in Devon

Neil[/quote]

Sorry, Neil Wheadon, I think you may have jumped the gun - changing the profile before we had deployed the fix.

Anyway, it is fixed now, and any duplicate entries can now be deleted

Neil, the same error was causing wrong entries to get deleted, so I am afraid you will need to re-enter your Westmoor entry.

Sorry about that, but should all be fixed now.

RE: VetSurgeon Profiles

Neil Wheadon — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 12:40:03 GMT

and for long resumes. My CV is pretty much everything aside taking referrals. The system has removed my first job (no scroll down available) which was at Westmoor in Devon

Neil

RE: VetSurgeon Profiles

Arlo Guthrie — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 12:31:40 GMT

[quote user="Neil Wheadon"]My AHVLA is duplicated. I edited the date, so the system has doubled it up and it won't let me delete it. You click the pencil, hit delete and it asks are you sure, reply yes and nothing happens.[/quote]

Yes, sorry about that, we are aware, and it is fixed on our development platform - we're going to have to run one last redeploy (site goes down), to apply the fix to the site ...

RE: VetSurgeon Profiles

Neil Wheadon — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 12:26:34 GMT

OK done it

My AHVLA is duplicated. I edited the date, so the system has doubled it up and it won't let me delete it. You click the pencil, hit delete and it asks are you sure, reply yes and nothing happens.

Running safari on mac

Neil

RE: VetSurgeon Profiles

Arlo Guthrie — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 07:56:13 GMT

[quote user="Niall Taylor"]Looks good; clean and detailed.[/quote]

Thanks Niall .

[quote user="Niall Taylor"]Took a while to work out how to change the avatar picture though (click on the little pencil in the bottom right corner of the profile banner/headline). Couldn't 'edit avatar' have its own section in the 'edit profile' options?[/quote]

Hmm - well largely we wanted to split the stuff between those things that are required for membership (which are under account settings), and those things which are optional (all the stuff on your profile page). But will have a think. Maybe as simple as moving the pencil closer to the avatar to make it clearer.

[quote user="Niall Taylor"]Also, is 'hepatology' supposed to be 'herpetology'?[/quote]

It wasn't, no! Interest in herpetology is really supposed to be covered under 'Species'

[quote user="Malcolm Ness"]Hi Arlo - done mine. [/quote]

Malcolm, thank you so much, that's a really good example of how good (I think) a full profile can look.

I've added FRCVS and upgraded you. I see there's a duplicate entry under experience, but there's a glitch there which I thought we'd fixed, which is preventing me from deleting it. Will get that fixed asap.

RE: VetSurgeon Profiles

Malcolm Ness — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 23:07:55 GMT

Hi Arlo - done mine. Can't find an "FRCVS" to add. There is an "Hon FRCVS" but I had to work for mine!!

RE: VetSurgeon Profiles

Niall Taylor — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 22:12:34 GMT

[quote user="Arlo Guthrie"]Any feedback much appreciated. Lot of blood sweat and tears went into it, so I hope you like it. And if anyone else sees any missing qualifications or interests, let me know![/quote]

Looks good; clean and detailed. Took a while to work out how to change the avatar picture though (click on the little pencil in the bottom right corner of the profile banner/headline). Couldn't 'edit avatar' have its own section in the 'edit profile' options? Also, is 'hepatology' supposed to be 'herpetology'?

Niall

RE: VetSurgeon Profiles

Arlo Guthrie — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 21:32:10 GMT

OK ... we're ready for you now!

Can I ask EVERYONE to take a look at your new profile section, and complete at least some of it.

To do that, click 'My Account' on the top navigation, now at the far right (Neil Wheadon - is that OK for you now? ). Then click 'View My Profile' and edit on the page.

When you first arrive at your profile it looks a bit dull if it's empty. But here's one I prepared earlier https://www.vetsurgeon.org/members/editor/ (my education and qualifications are obviously false; just there temporarily for the purposes of illustration).

In particular, your university, qualifications and interests. But the more you add, the better, because it really does make SUCH a big difference to be able to read a post and have the context of a little bit of background about the author.

Referral practitioners, locums and anyone in the market for a job ... I hope you in particular will like the new format, and the way it allows you to present yourself in what I hope you'll think is a very professional format. I hope you'll spend some time doing a really good profile, especially now all the job adverts have a new feature whereby you can send a link to your profile to the advertiser (a feature we'll be adding elsewhere in due course).

Likewise, there's a link from the VetSurgeon Locum map to locums' profiles, so really worthwhile for locums to make sure their profile is looking good, and gives practices the info they need. BTW, there is now an option to display your telephone number in your profile, switched off by default, but it's there for anyone who wants to make themselves easier to contact offline.

A couple of things for anyone who already had a profile:

a) You might like to reupload your photo / avatar, as they are now displayed larger than before, and anything you have already uploaded will now look a bit pixelated in your profile. We now zoom and crop images, so if you want everything in the picture, upload a square image. Ideally bigger than 150px by 150px.

b) If you already had an 'about' in your profile, that's been carried across. But you might want to edit it to make it shorter, if there was content in it that you can now enter in the new 'Experience', 'Qualifications', 'Education', and 'Interests' sections.

Any feedback much appreciated. Lot of blood sweat and tears went into it, so I hope you like it. And if anyone else sees any missing qualifications or interests, let me know!

RE: VetSurgeon Profiles

Arlo Guthrie — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 09:52:17 GMT

[quote user="Judith Archbold"]I still can't be an "MAVetMB" though.[/quote]

I didn't even know about that one (had only found reference to BA VetMB), but have added it now!

[quote user="Judith Archbold"]Arlo ... you brought this can of worms on yourself[/quote]

I could see it coming

But actually, I'm delighted.

RE: VetSurgeon Profiles

Judith Archbold — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 09:38:24 GMT

I still can't be an "MAVetMB" though.

You see.. this is what happens when I'm on holiday and it's raining .. too much free time to update my profile.

Arlo ... you brought this can of worms on yourself..... but we salute you for it.

RE: VetSurgeon Profiles

Arlo Guthrie — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 09:28:30 GMT

[quote user="Judith Archbold"]But ... I can't find Soft Tissue Surgery![/quote]

Judith Archbold

You can now

(keeping me on my toes this morning!)

RE: VetSurgeon Profiles

Judith Archbold — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 09:25:05 GMT

But ... I can't find Soft Tissue Surgery!

RE: VetSurgeon Profiles

Arlo Guthrie — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 09:24:19 GMT

[quote user="emma o'connor"]

Morning Arlo, I've just been looking to update my profile and can't find dermatology listed under the interests section. [/quote]

emma o'connor

Damn - how did that happen? Thanks for pointing it out, have updated and dermatology is there now!

Incidentally, everyone profile photos are bigger, but we have yet to make a small tweak to the system to make sure they resize correctly (at the mo, they are saving small then enlarging, which leads to poor quality. We need to get them to save bigger, and not enlarge, a simple tweak, I think).

RE: VetSurgeon Profiles

Judith Archbold — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 09:23:16 GMT

Morning Emma.

Yep it's there .... under "add interests / discipline / dermatology".

RE: VetSurgeon Profiles

emma o'connor — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 09:08:09 GMT

Morning Arlo, I've just been looking to update my profile and can't find dermatology listed under the interests section.

RE: VetSurgeon Profiles

Arlo Guthrie — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 08:24:33 GMT

[quote user="Neil Wheadon"]Even on Vetsurgeon it seems that fact that I failed a single exam comes back to haunt me. Final year Medicine meant that the RCVS labels me as qualifying in October and now Vetsurgeon.[/quote]

Neil Wheadon not sure I understand - on VetSurgeon, you can set the qualification date to be whatever you want!

This morning's update:

Malcolm Ness and Claudia Niehoegen

Yes, European and other qualifications ARE there, but so far only UK ones are visible on iPad (if you don't believe me, take a look at my profile, where I have suddenly become rather well qualified, a temporary thing just to demonstrate: https://www.vetsurgeon.org/members/editor/). We'll have it working on iPad shortly.

We also have some layout and navigation changes to make, and a couple of other pretty minor things to do, should be ready in a few hours.

Oh, and Claudia, the system setting has always just allowed for US English, it's a non-option that we can expand in the future when we want to add other languages. Doesn't actually do anything at the moment!

RE: VetSurgeon Profiles

Neil Wheadon — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 23:22:17 GMT

Sigh....

Even on Vetsurgeon it seems that fact that I failed a single exam comes back to haunt me. Final year Medicine meant that the RCVS labels me as qualifying in October and now Vetsurgeon.

Never mind the 2 distinctions......

Can anyone else name the 5 commonest cattle diseases in Canada in 1990, yup that was the killer, my large animal verbal examination. I got 2 of them but that wasn't good enough. Would they move on from that subject....nope...

Neil (chip on my shoulder)

RE: VetSurgeon Profiles

Arlo Guthrie — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 22:16:38 GMT

Claudia Niehoegen Don't worry, they are all there, but we're still working on the profile section and not all seem to display properly on iPad (they were there on a desktop when I looked earlier). Anyway, we should have everything tidied up tomorrow morning :)

RE: VetSurgeon Profiles

Claudia Niehoegen — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 21:56:47 GMT

I can't see Dr.med.vet or DrMedVet in the list. Contrary to general misconceptions "us continentals" did't get our Dr titles gratuitously. Took me 4 years!

The only language showing on my profile is US American. Don't tell me I have to spell haemo hemo from now on?

RE: VetSurgeon Profiles

Arlo Guthrie — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 21:34:06 GMT

[quote user="Malcolm Ness"]

Hi Arlo

There is a whole raft of European Diploma qualifications to add to your list as well.

[/quote]

Thanks Malcolm, I think I have them all in the system.

RE: VetSurgeon Profiles

Malcolm Ness — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 21:28:58 GMT

Hi Arlo

There is a whole raft of European Diploma qualifications to add to your list as well.

RE: VetSurgeon Profiles

Arlo Guthrie — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 16:25:57 GMT

[quote user="Julie Innes"]Oh dear, I'll need to be BSV (bog standard vet!)[/quote]

Julie Innes

I'm so tempted to slip that one in there amongst them all!

Think I've got to do it.

Just writing the code now, actually ...

RE: VetSurgeon Profiles

Joyce Whitehead — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 16:02:19 GMT

Me too Julie! And possibly I might list retirement in my interests... :D

RE: VetSurgeon Profiles

Julie Innes — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 15:15:43 GMT

Oh dear, I'll need to be BSV (bog standard vet!)

RE: VetSurgeon Profiles

Arlo Guthrie — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 10:45:15 GMT

Judith Archbold don't worry, not going to tip me over the edge! Will add.

[quote user="Anthony Dennison"]PGCertVPS - Post Graduate Certificate in Veterinary Professional Studies.[/quote]

likewise

[quote user="bob lehner"]And I passed my Pony Club 'B' Test when I was only 12 - quite an achievement in those days....[/quote]

and VetPC(B-12)

[quote user="mariette asselbergs"]My Dutch veterinary degree allows me to use the letters DVM (doctor of veterinary medicine).[/quote]

Don't worry, DVM will be listed under other countries that use it.

And with non-vet MScs, you'll be able to display MSc and elaborate in profile.