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The College of Veterinary Medicine was authorized by the Florida Legislature in 1965 and opened its doors to students in 1976. Florida’s College of Veterinary Medicine is concerned with the total health of all members of the animal kingdom, including human.

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Mailing Address Office for Academic and Students Affairs College of Veterinary Medicine P.O. Box 100125 University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32610-0125

Modern veterinarians serve the needs of the public in many significant ways:

• Prevention of disease in animals and humans
• Enhancement of animal agriculture and wildlife management
• Humane health care of animals
• Research on diseases of animals
• Provision of wholesome food

To answer these challenges, the goals of the College of Veterinary Medicine are to:

• Educate veterinarians for Florida’s specific needs.
• Perform research on metabolic and infectious diseases of animals. These investigations will provide new knowledge concerning diseases of domestic animals, will assist in the control of devastating subtropical diseases that must be controlled to provide wholesome food for our nation and developing countries, and will provide insight into human diseases for which animal models exist.
• Provide a veterinary medical center necessary for training interns, residents and graduate students, and for the continuing education of practitioners.
• Provide a resource for dissemination of current information to veterinary practitioners, state and federal agricultural and public health agencies, and consumers of food and health services.
• Serve as a center where veterinary practitioners can consult with specialists and where animal patients can be referred for sophisticated diagnostic procedures. This will provide a service to practitioners and afford veterinary students access to more cases and a greater variety of disease entities.

Veterinary students participate in the professional degree program leading to the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.), which requires 150 semester credits for graduation. Students with a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.50 or above may graduate cum laude . A cumulative GPA of 3.75 or above is required for magna cum laude recognition.

The professional curriculum provides a nine-semester program consisting of core didactic classes and clinical clerkship experiences. Three phases of study within the veterinary medical curriculum are based conceptually on:

• the study of the normal animal (Phase I),
• the study of disease processes and therapy (Phase II), and
• clinical applications (Phase III).

Phases I and II are organized on an organ system basis; each system is considered in turn, an approach that lends itself to the concept of comparative medicine. Phase I occupies the first two semesters of the curriculum; Phase II the second two semesters. During Phase III (semesters 5-9) the student enters rotations through the required clerkships and elective areas of concentration. More Info

Students intending to apply for admission to the College of Veterinary Medicine should plan to complete a bachelor’s degree. However, outstanding students may be admitted after three years of preprofessional coursework.

Sequencing of preprofessional coursework should be planned carefully, preferably under the guidance of preprofessional advisors. The Office for Academic and Student Affairs welcomes inquiries of a general nature, but semester-by-semester course scheduling should be monitored by the college offering the bachelor’s degree.

Pre-veterinary students may major in a program offered by any department or college but must complete the preprofessional requirements. Applicants to the professional curriculum must present a minimum of 75 credits of college-level coursework, exclusive of physical education and military training courses. More Info

Credit for Advanced International Certificate of Education (AICE), Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB) or College Level Examination Programs (CLEP) is acceptable at the level identified in the academic advising section of this catalog.

Student selection for the College of Veterinary Medicine will be made by the dean based on recommendation of the College Admissions Committee using the following criteria as the basis for selection:

• Academic Performance
• Animal and Veterinary Experience
• Evaluation Forms and References
• Extracurricular Activities
• Communicative Skills
• Candidate interview
• Competitiveness of the Applicant Pool

When to Apply

The College of Veterinary Medicine is a participant in the Veterinary Medical College Application Service (VMCAS). The common application, currently accepted by all AAVMC participating colleges is available in January via  VMCAS . By mid-May you will be able to add specific programs who wish to apply. In addition to completing the full VMCAS application, applicants must also complete and submit a required UF vet med professional application. More Info

This secondary application is used to determine residency for tuition purposes. The completed secondary application must be received by the submission deadline of the VMCAS application. Admission is granted only for the Fall semester of each school year and only on a full-time basis.

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How to Start Your Career as a Veterinarian

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If you love animals and like to take care of them as a professional, then you have a bright future as a veterinary doctor.  Becoming a vet doctor is not very easy though. This challenging career requires several years of schooling and experience to earn success. If you are studying in a high school and dream to be a vet doctor in future, then read on to know what you need to do to be an expert veterinarian.

What are the job duties of a veterinarian?

Pet owners call you when their pets get injured or sick, or if a routine check-up is required. Depending upon the condition of the patient, you may ask the caller to bring the pet or visit his/her home. You will determine the cause of illness or the seriousness of the injury and prescribe medicines, if necessary. You may need to do stitching and perform surgery in case of a serious injury. Some of your other duties are giving vaccines, spaying pets, euthanizing terminally ill animals and advising the pet owners about the overall health care of the pet.

One of the most loved pets in America is the chinchilla and as a vet doctor you may need to treat various health issues that this animal faces. For example, chinchillas’ teeth grow continuously as long as they live and thus, they often get affected by malocclusion, a dental disease. If someone comes to you with a malocclusion affected chinchilla, you need to apply anesthesia and trim the overgrown teeth.

Education requirements

In order to practice as a veterinarian, a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree is a must. Select a veterinary college which is accredited by the American Veterinary Medical Association. A Bachelor’s degree is necessary to take admission in some schools, but even those who don’t ask for Bachelor’s degree will look into your educational details to make sure that you had coursework in areas such as anatomy, biology, physiology, chemistry, zoology or microbiology. The Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree course lasts for four years and you get to learn subjects like veterinary immunology, microbiology, animal anatomy, parasitology, diagnostic imaging and surgery. During the third and fourth year of the course, you will concentrate on clinical studies. The last two years are most vital as you get the opportunity to work directly with the animals. You also get the opportunity to take part in research projects.

You must earn the license to start your career as a vet doctor. The licensing process varies in different states of the USA, but one thing is common. You have to pass a national exam administered by NBVME or National Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners. Try to score as high as possible because NBVME will send your marks to the state licensing board. According to BLS, you can start practicing after getting the license or you may complete additional one year internship. Doing the internship is a wise decision, because it helps you earn more at a later stage of your career.

Job prospect and salary

According to BLS, veterinary jobs are expected to grow 12% in the coming 8-10 years. The annual income of vet doctors is pretty good and will grow in future. As of now, the average annual income of a vet doctor is approximately $93,250.

The life of a vet doctor is very interesting. Every day, you handle various types of animals and the joy you get by curing the sick pets is simply inexpressible in words. Start searching for a good college today to earn money and fame as a vet doctor.

Author bio: Robert Gonzales is a vet doctor and an expert on chinchilla. You can read some of his other articles by visiting our blog.

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You may try to find parking in the Welcome Center garage, located at 737 Reitz Union Drive, Gainesville, FL 32611.  Please find the parking attendant in the Welcome Center garage for assistance as he tries to hold spaces for our visitors.  If there are no available spots in the Welcome Center parking garage, overflow visitor parking may be found in Garage 5 located at 1108 Gale Lemerand Drive, Gainesville, FL 32611. There is an $8.00 charge for all-day parking in both garages. Note that if you are parking in Garage 5, it is about a 10-15 minute walk to the Welcome Center. Please plan accordingly. (Directions to the Welcome Center from Garage 5: turn left when exiting the garage to go north on Gale Lemerand. Turn right on Museum Road and walk about a block. The Welcome Center will be on your left.)

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Pronouns and tribal affiliations are now forbidden in south dakota public university employee emails.

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Megan Red Shirt-Shaw speaks at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois, on Jan. 17, 2023. Two University of South Dakota faculty members, Megan Red Shirt-Shaw and her husband, John Little, have long included their gender pronouns and tribal affiliations in their work email signature blocks. But both received written warnings from the university in March that doing so violated a policy adopted by the South Dakota Board of Regents in December. (Ryan Pagelow/Dominican University via AP)

A new South Dakota policy to stop the use of gender pronouns by public university faculty and staff in official correspondence is also keeping Native American employees from listing their tribal affiliations in a state with a long and violent history of conflict with tribes.

Two University of South Dakota faculty members, Megan Red Shirt-Shaw and her husband, John Little, have long included their gender pronouns and tribal affiliations in their work email signature blocks. But both received written warnings from the university in March that doing so violated a policy adopted in December by the South Dakota Board of Regents.

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“I was told that I had 5 days to remove my tribal affiliation and pronouns,” Little said in an email to The Associated Press. “I believe the exact wording was that I had ‘5 days to correct the behavior.’ If my tribal affiliation and pronouns were not removed after the 5 days, then administrators would meet and make a decision whether I would be suspended (with or without pay) and/or immediately terminated.”

The policy is billed by the board as a simple branding and communications policy. It came only months after Republican Gov. Kristi Noem sent a letter to the regents that railed against “liberal ideologies” on college campuses and called for the board to ban drag shows on campus and “remove all references to preferred pronouns in school materials," among other things.

All nine voting members of the board were appointed by Noem, whose remarks in March accusing tribal leaders of benefitting from illegal drug cartels and not properly caring for children has prompted most South Dakota tribes to ban her from their land.

South Dakota's change comes in the midst of a conservative quest to limit diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives gaining momentum in state capitals and college governing boards around the country, with about one-third of the states taking some sort of action against it.

Policies targeting gender pronoun use have focused mainly on K-12 students, although some small religious colleges have also restricted pronoun use. Houghton University in western New York fired two dorm directors last year after they refused to remove gender pronouns from their work email signatures.

But some fear the South Dakota policy could signify a creep of such efforts into public colleges and universities.

“Quite frankly, this is the first I've heard of a state university choosing to use branding standards to eliminate what obviously had become a practice of including pronouns and tribal affiliations to emails,” said Paulette Grandberry Russell, president of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education. “But I'm not surprised, given the current climate we're in.”

Grandberry Russell referred to the conservative push limiting transgender rights and diversity, equity and inclusion efforts as a “testing ground” to see if discriminatory laws will be tolerated.

“It is a steady progression,” she said. “This comes in the form of communications and branding standards. Is that going to be the next frontier in sanitizing the realities of our differences? "

The college faculty advocacy group American Association of University Professors is not aware of any other faculty at a public university in the U.S. being required to drop their preferred pronouns in official correspondence, spokesman Kelly Benjamin said.

“Anecdotally I'll say, because I live in Florida and have seen what's happened with all the anti-wokeness and targeting of education here, I know this is part and parcel to a longer-term agenda,” Benjamin said.

A spokeswoman for the University of South Dakota declined to answer questions about whether its administrators or the University Faculty Senate had been consulted before regents adopted the policy, referring questions to the Board of Regents.

Shuree Mortenson, a spokeswoman for the regents, said all six universities under the regents board umbrella were given the opportunity to review the policy, “but ultimately, the Board of Regents made this decision.” She declined to say whether other faculty at any of the five other schools had received warnings about not using gender pronouns, tribal affiliation or other identifiers, but defended the new policy as providing “consistency to safeguard the brand."

Mortenson did not answer questions about whether the inclusion of tribal affiliation in official public university signature blocks had been considered by the regents before adopting it or whether tribal leaders in the state had been consulted.

When the policy was announced to faculty in January, Little said he and Red Shirt-Shaw asked schools administrators how the new policy would impact the inclusion of tribal affiliations.

“It was clear that they had not considered that this would impact Native employees,” Little said.

The U.S. had long tried to eradicate Native American communities and cultures through warfare, assimilation and other means before recognizing tribes' inherent right to govern themselves. Indigenous children, for example, were taken from their communities and forced into Native American boarding schools , which systematically abused students .

Red Shirt-Shaw said in social media posts that being told she could not list her tribal affiliation as part of her signature felt like further erasure of Native people in South Dakota.

“The ability to share my tribal affiliation as well as gender pronouns signals that I am a person who values the lived experiences of others,” she said.

Both she and Little have begun listing their tribal affiliation and pronouns in the body of their emails, which the university currently is allowing.

The American Civil Liberties Union of South Dakota said it has heard from faculty and students at the University of South Dakota who are concerned about the new policy. The ACLU is considering next steps to address it.

“Maybe their intent was to suppress pronoun usage in email signatures, but as is often the case with any limitation or suppression of free speech, there's always unintended consequences,” said Samantha Chapman, an advocacy manager for the ACLU South Dakota. “There is also a component here of double erasure. There are plenty of queer Indigenous folks in South Dakota.” ___

Associated Press journalist Felicia Fonseca in Flagstaff, Arizona, contributed to this report.

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WSU offers expanded equine care and advanced techniques

Equine reproductive services are expanding at Washington State University’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital to offer new procedures and options for horse owners throughout the region.

The expanded service, which will take advantage of a newly repurposed facility and pasture on Terre View Drive, will be dedicated to clients seeking equine reproductive care and will nearly double onboarding space for mares, foals, and stallions at the hospital. The facility will provide long-term boarding and improved management for equine reproductive patients at WSU.

“Just as in humans, equine reproductive medicine comes with challenges that require experienced, skilled veterinarians who specialize in the area,” said Dr. Raelynn Farnsworth, director of WSU’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital. “This expanded service will allow us to care and accommodate more of those horses and their owners throughout our region, which has been a need for quite some time.”

Just as in humans, equine reproductive medicine comes with challenges that require experienced, skilled veterinarians who specialize in the area. Dr. Raelynn Farnsworth, director WSU’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital

Dr. Babiche Heil, assistant professor and WSU equine theriogenologist who will help lead the expanded service, said she is excited about the availability to provide more long-term boarding for mares and stallions at WSU.

“This allows us to provide routine reproductive care like artificial insemination, semen collection and cryopreservation of semen, as well as a greater capacity for investigation of infertility in mares and stallions,” Heil said.

Heil said additionally, to meet the need of clients, more advanced reproductive techniques are now offered. Most notably among new procedures that will be offered is ovum pick up (OPU), which allows for collection of oocytes (eggs) from the mare for fertilization with a stallion of choice in the laboratory via Intra-Cytoplasmatic Sperm Injection (ICSI). This technique can be used to achieve offspring from mares that can’t carry a foal themselves due to their athletic career, health concerns or infertility, or because the stallion of choice is only available via ICSI.

Heil said currently she knows equine owners traveling as far as Oregon and Utah for such services.

She said postmortem oocyte collection from mares and sperm collection from stallions is also being offered as part of the expanded service.

“Expanding this service is not only a win for horses, their owners and our referring veterinarians, but also a win for veterinary students at WSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine because this expansion increases the educational opportunities, we can provide them, and prepare them well for the needs of their future clients once graduated,” Heil said.

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