The College of Veterinary Medicine’s unique curricular structure provides nearly two years of hands-on clinical training. Years one and two of the four-year program focus on instruction in high-tech, computer-based classrooms and labs. Years three and four provide clinical instruction in such areas as cardiology, community medicine, dentistry, emergency and critical care, equine medicine and surgery, food animal medicine and surgery, neurology, neurosurgery, oncology, ophthalmology, orthopedic and soft-tissue surgery, and reproduction. The curriculum is integrated with veterinary services that include statewide animal disease diagnostic services, and extension and continuing education programs for animal owners and veterinarians.
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Mizzou College of Veterinary Medicine Pioneers Healer’s Art Online
The University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine’s Healer’s Art course was moved online for the first time. This is a course that focuses on addressing the growing loss of meaning and commitment that veterinarians may experience while under the stress of today’s world. Through this course, by the way of open dialogue, students recognize and find the true value of their work, while also learning how to preserve the human dimension. With open dialogue, it has always been important to have personal, face-to-face connection, but due to COVID-19, the course was moved to remote meetings. Assistant Teaching Professor of…
CVM Rolls Out Improvements to Classrooms
When the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine resumes the didactic curriculum this fall, new and returning students will be greeted by renovations to two of the classrooms in the Veterinary Medicine Building. In preparing for an American Veterinary Medical Association Council on Education reaccreditation site visit, which will take place later this year, college administrators identified classrooms W-233 and W-235 as needing repairs and seating options more conducive to contemporary teaching methods and study styles, explained Executive Administrative Dean Rusty Crawford. He said the overall goal is to improve the learning opportunities for students. “We took a look…
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