19/11/2025
****isn't this very convenient that they released this BEFORE the scores for the November exam have been released? The testing window just closed, and this bu****it comes out?
Statistics are meant to be manipulated to the desired effect.
They do this in veterinary medical institutions as well. Before exam/ course scores are released, you best bet there have been manipulations with the data. Oh no! Too many fails on this exam? Surely, the scores need to be adjusted to favor the desired effect. It doesn't matter if you know for a fact, that your exam was blown off, in exchange for another exam that carried more weight towards a grade, resulting in students admittingly stating their focus is merely survival from one exam to the other, with the goal being short-term, and getting the points you need at that moment in time for the grade you desire. No focus on accumulating that knowledge in their own databank. This is a common tactic by students, that is encouraged and promoted within the universities. As I was told many times, it looks bad, and we simply can't allow having that many fails. It is never about comprehension of the material. That's why a two semester, (6,7,8,9 credits total), course gets consolidated into one semester, and then the class population size is doubled on top of that. 250 students to one professor. So that "A" grade that you got in the course, I hate to say it, probably really wasn't an "A" to start out with. But it doesn't matter. It looks good on paper, so it must be true. *** This is the ultimate insult to the student that actually earned the "A".
I foresee a sudden increase in the pass rate this year. How seriously stupid can this decision be?
Get your s**t together, people! This is what you get paid to do! Do your job!
If NAVLE is so quick to give a clean slate on board exam attempts, why aren't vet schools erasing my student loans. And yours?
Can you say we massively screwed up without saying we massively screwed up? I'm talking to you AVMA. And my cowardly colleagues running these veterinary universities.
These institutions, the college of veterinary medicine institutions and the overseeing body that produces and issues the board exams, are made up of the same people. Oh, and (my colleagues) auditing these institutions, as well, such as the COE...
Wiping the slate clean in terms of number of attempts made in passing the board exam, and the fall of our profession due to colleagues in academia.
You may call it an incestuous, intertwined relationship.
This is just the beginning. And they should be scared. All of them, including colleagues making up these institutions.
They are frauds. And they have defrauded you, me, the profession, our clients and mostly, our patients.
There will be more bombshells coming.
Has anybody actually read any of their practice board questions? I can tell you, my colleagues wrote these questions. They are absolutely atrocious, horribly written, and do not even use proper medical terminology.
Your questions suck. No wonder so many applicants can't pass this stupid exam on their first, second, third, fourth, or 5th attempt. The error is on YOU, not the applicant taking the exam. You suck. Your work ethic sucks. And now your product sucks. All because of YOU, my veterinary colleagues, my novelty deans, assistant deans, assistant- to-the deans, assistant-to the-assistant-to-the deans, you get the picture.
How about we talk compensation for all the mental distress and anguish you caused, as a result of applicants having to repeat this exam torture? Or time and energy that people like me have spent consoling our future colleagues during their debacle. You have caused irreparable harm to my future colleagues as well as myself.
Compensation from these universities, who charged us an exorbitant amount of money to even be able to sit for board exams that we will never pass, because they are inherently flawed, just like the colleagues, just like the institutions they represent.
You have destroyed the profession. You have destroyed the future of the profession. You have destroyed the perception and respect that veterinarians used to carry in society.
Our profession can only be as good as our leaders.
But there are no leaders in veterinary medicine. They are all followers.
*TRUE* leaders will put their necks (and name!) on the line, for the greater good, despite the aftermath you will bring on them in your desperate attempts to find a scapegoat and distraction.
Let me also teach the idiot doctors and wanna be doctors in the group: clinical practice is only a sliver of what the veterinary profession is. Get over your obsession with yourself. The rest of us have been supporting your asses. You wouldn't be able to practice if it wasn't for us. Clearly, and obviously, this is not reflected on the exam. But "clinical" verbiage is the carrot that is dangled to lure them in. Most veterinary students aspire to become clinicians. But is it because that's the only thing they know about the profession? I have your answer to this as well. And you're not going to like what I have to say.
What's even more pathetic is when these idiots are considered expert enough to teach a specialty course. They start believing that they are an expert. And worse yet, our future colleagues don't even know the difference.
With NAVLE, how shocked would you be when numerous veterinary students comment that they are getting advice on this exam from a doctor. WHO IS NOT EVEN A VETERINARIAN, NOR MEDICAL ANYTHING. Worse yet, they're being directed to this person by their own institutional administration. PhD does not mean medical (veterinary) doctor.
People get PhD's in English Composition, for example. (It is obvious, I do not carry this degree). Do not take national veterinary board exam advice from someone who is not even a veterinarian. After 8 years at the institution, I couldn't believe I was blindsided by the institution's bu****it tactics. I mean, I've seen them do pretty stupid s**t. I've heard them. But this was a surprise, even to a pathologist.
Just as you shouldn't take therapeutic advice from a pathologist, you never take ANY advice from a non-expert. ** Newsflash! DVM does NOT mean expert. The one thing that is accurate about the profession, is that there is a shortage of veterinarians. Qualified veterinarians. Expert veterinarians. Formally trained veterinarians. Veterinarians with the ability to critically think. We do not have very many of those representative in academia anymore.
For those that don't know what a pathologist is, we are the ones that get you answers when the doctors don't know. Many times, they are answers you don't want to hear. They are based on evidence-based medicine. Something we should be teaching in these institutions. But we don't. Although I will also state as a disclaimer, that according to a female "dean" at a veterinary university (actually a few female deans have told me this), we (experts) are not worth paying us what we deserve. Straight from the dean's mouth. And straight into the ears of our future colleagues. Nice job. Wonder if they're on the NAVLE board too. Probably. Definitely.
So why are we really failing this exam three, four, five times? The fish rots from the head down.
