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Preparing students for careers in food-supply veterinary medicine: a review of educational programs in the United States.
J Vet Med Educ. 2012 Fall; 39(3):257-62.JV

Abstract

The real and/or perceived shortage of veterinarians serving food-supply veterinary medicine has been a topic of considerable discussion for decades. Regardless of this debate, there are issues still facing colleges of veterinary medicine (CVMs) about the best process of educating future food-supply veterinarians. Over the past several years, there have been increasing concerns by some that the needs of food-supply veterinary medicine have not adequately been met through veterinary educational institutions. The food-supply veterinary medical curriculum offered by individual CVMs varies depending on individual curricular design, available resident animal population, available food-animal caseload, faculty, and individual teaching efforts of faculty. All of the institutional members of the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC) were requested to share their Food Animal Veterinary Career Incentives Programs. The AAVMC asked all member institutions what incentives they used to attract and educate students interested in, or possibly considering, a career in food-supply veterinary medicine (FSVM). The problem arises as to how we continue to educate veterinary students with ever shrinking budgets and how to recruit and retain faculty with expertise to address the needs of society. Several CVMs use innovative training initiatives to help build successful FSVM programs. This article focuses on dairy, beef, and swine food-animal education and does not characterize colleges' educational efforts in poultry and aquaculture. This review highlights the individual strategies used by the CVMs in the United States.

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Posey RD
Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, USA. dposey@cvm.tamu.edu
Hoffsis GF
No affiliation info available
Cullor JS
No affiliation info available
Naylor JM
No affiliation info available
Chaddock M
No affiliation info available
Ames TR
No affiliation info available

MeSH

Animal HusbandryAnimalsCattleDairyingEducation, VeterinaryHumansSchools, VeterinarySwineUnited States

Pub Type(s)

Journal Article
Review

Language

eng

PubMed ID

22951460

Citation

Posey, R Daniel, et al. "Preparing Students for Careers in Food-supply Veterinary Medicine: a Review of Educational Programs in the United States." Journal of Veterinary Medical Education, vol. 39, no. 3, 2012, pp. 257-62.
Posey RD, Hoffsis GF, Cullor JS, et al. Preparing students for careers in food-supply veterinary medicine: a review of educational programs in the United States. J Vet Med Educ. 2012;39(3):257-62.
Posey, R. D., Hoffsis, G. F., Cullor, J. S., Naylor, J. M., Chaddock, M., & Ames, T. R. (2012). Preparing students for careers in food-supply veterinary medicine: a review of educational programs in the United States. Journal of Veterinary Medical Education, 39(3), 257-62. https://doi.org/10.3138/jvme.0112-012R
Posey RD, et al. Preparing Students for Careers in Food-supply Veterinary Medicine: a Review of Educational Programs in the United States. J Vet Med Educ. 2012;39(3):257-62. PubMed PMID: 22951460.
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