From the classroom to the clinic
July 5, 2019
Diagnostics, clinical skills, problem solving, and working with clients are all critical pieces in a student veterinarian’s education. Hands-on opportunities are invaluable.
Student veterinarians heading into their final year of study at the University of Guelph’s Ontario Veterinary College move from lectures and labs into a year of intensive clinical and diagnostic training, beginning with an eight-week externship in a rural veterinary practice. It is a defining experience as they move from the classroom to the...
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Today’s dairy farmers and veterinarians have access to unlimited data streams about the health of an individual animal or an entire herd— but that hasn’t always been the case. In Ontario, before the 1960s, it was commonplace for dairy farmers to call on veterinary care only when an individual cow needed assistance — and there was little written documentation about each visit. But that all changed in the early 1960’s, when two Ontario Veterinary College (OVC) faculty members, Drs. Jack Cote and Bob Curtis, began enrolling herds in a dairy herd health initiative. The program was designed...