Suicide prevention course offered for rural veterinarians, farm workersSeptember 23, 2024The free online course by Cornell will offer practical support and strategies to combat mental health challenges.
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Rural veterinary crisis central to new DVM programFebruary 27, 2020The shortage of rural veterinarians across the U.S. continues to be a growing concern, and a new collaboration between two Midwestern universities aims to tackle this challenge.
Purdue awarded $3M grant to expand DVM diversity, opportunitySeptember 18, 2018Purdue University's College of Veterinary Medicine has been awarded a $3.18-million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to expand access to the veterinary profession for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds and address the need for more rural/food safety veterinarians. The Vet Up! National Health Careers Opportunity Program (HCOP) Academy for Veterinary Medicine will address the national shortage of veterinarians in public health and rural/food animal practice in the state and beyond, as well as the lack of underrepresented individuals entering the veterinary profession. Vet Up! will leverage the university's history of diversity programming and partnerships with high schools as well as historically black colleges, universities, and state entities to design and deliver curricula that provide otherwise-inaccessible opportunities to students. Purdue's Evaluation and Learning Research Center will assess the impact of the programming on participants and the veterinary profession. The Vet Up! National Academy consists of three areas: Vet Up! Champions is a yearlong program to prepare high school students, working adults, and undergraduate students to attain their next level of education on the path toward a veterinary medical degree Vet Up! College is a summer immersion program to prepare undergraduate students to competitively apply to a …
Auburn to strengthen vet medicine in rural KentuckyDecember 5, 2017The Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine is directing a program to strengthen veterinary services to underserved rural populations in Kentucky through a grant provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Veterinary Services Grant Program and in partnership with Kentucky veterinarians. The $237,233 grant allows the college to create a program to "develop, implement, and sustain private veterinary services through education, training, recruitment, placement and retention of veterinarians and students of veterinary medicine," said Dan Givens, DVM, Ph.D., associate dean for academic affairs at Auburn's College of Veterinary Medicine. It is one of 13 grants by USDA's National Institute of Food & Agriculture. Objectives of the grant are: Connect veterinarians serving in rural geographic areas where additional veterinarians are needed with veterinary students interested in working in those areas; Provide quality educational opportunities for veterinary students in business management and sustainability in rural veterinary practice; Provide quality continuing education at a reduced cost to veterinarians serving in designated rural areas of unmet needs; Provide business management education and practice sustainability consultation to rural veterinary practitioners in underserved areas, and Facilitate and create networking opportunities that assist graduating veterinarians with transitioning into sustainable careers in rural underserved …
