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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NIH Program has Some CVM Faculty and Students Going Back to (Elementary) School
MU’s College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) has joined 12 other U.S. veterinary schools and colleges to inspire future veterinarians through This Is How We Role, a program for children in kindergarten through fourth grade who are educationally disadvantaged due to socioeconomic status, race or ethnicity. This Is How We Role provides training and materials to help veterinarians and veterinary students introduce children to the range of careers in the veterinary profession, with the long-term goal of diversifying the veterinarian-scientist workforce. The after-school science program is designed to increase awareness of the important role veterinarians play in keeping people and their…
MU CVM’s Franklin Earns ACLAM Mentor Award
Craig Franklin, a professor of veterinary pathobiology at MU’s College of Veterinary Medicine, received the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine’s (ACLAM) Mentor Award at the 2018 ACLAM Forum, held April 29 -May 2 at Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Franklin, DVM, PhD, was a scheduled speaker at the forum and accepted the award in person. The Mentor Award recognizes individuals who have contributed substantially to ACLAM membership in terms of mentoring postdoctoral fellows, graduate students or junior level ACLAM diplomates. Award recipients are elected by majority vote of the ACLAM board of directors, following recommendation by the group’s awards committee. “I’m…
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