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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Summer Program Gives Students a Taste of Veterinary School
The Advanced Veterinary Academy returned to the MU College of Veterinary Medicine this week after a two-year hiatus necessitated by COVID-19. Doug Tindall, director of the program, said the academy had 11 participants this year ─ nine from Missouri, one from Illinois and one from Texas. The academy is a three-day summer program for students ages 16-19 interested in studying veterinary medicine. Through a series of lectures, labs and related activities, the students get a look at the life of veterinary students. “We have a two-part objective,” Tindall said. “The first is for the participants to have the actual veterinary…
MU College of Veterinary Medicine Associate Professor Awarded 2022 Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence
Latha Ramchand, MU provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs; Steve Sowers, president and CEO of the central region of Commerce Bank; and Doug Bowles, MU Department of Biomedical Sciences chair, today awarded a 2022 William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence to Christopher Baines. Baines is an associate professor of biomedical sciences in the MU College of Veterinary Medicine. College of Veterinary Medicine Dean Carolyn Henry joined other administrators surprising Baines by honoring him with the fellowship, which includes a $15,000 check. Kemper Fellowships are awarded to five outstanding teachers at the University of Missouri each year. The…
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