Veterinary Medicine

College Majors
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<p>An understanding of the veterinary medical profession and of proper animal care are important considerations. This experience can be gained by working in a veterinary practice, research setting or by breeding, rearing, feeding, and showing various kinds of animals, including companion animals, livestock, laboratory animals, zoo animals, or wildlife. The quality and quantity of this experience is evaluated on the basis of the applicant’s description and by letters of evaluation from supervisors. All experiences listed on one’s application should be supported with a letter of evaluation.
<a href=“http://www.vet.cornell.edu/admissions/prep.htm#experience[/url]”>http://www.vet.cornell.edu/admissions/prep.htm#experience&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Veterinary, animal, and/or health science experience
This experience may include veterinary, agricultural, research, human health, and/or biomedical setting. Such experience should be of appropriate breadth and depth and should entail more than having provided routine care and feeding of companion animals or family pets.
<a href=“Homepage | Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine”>Homepage | Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine;

<p>Exposure to practice, research, or other areas of veterinary medicine is essential and should be described on the VMCAS application.
<a href=“http://www.vet.upenn.edu/admissions/requirements.html[/url]”>http://www.vet.upenn.edu/admissions/requirements.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>*Veterinary Experience A minimum of 400 hours of clinical, medical, agribusiness, health science or research experience is required. However, supervised experiences in three or more different areas are highly recommended for a competitive application. Experience in three (3) different areas (small animal, large animal, research, food animal production, exotic, aquatic, wildlife, zoological medicine, etc.) of the veterinary medical profession is preferred. The work can be either paid or voluntary and must be completed under the supervision of a veterinarian (or PhD scientist if scientific research). Applicants will be evaluated on duration, level of duties, and diversity of the experiences.</p>

<p>Animal Experience
All other animal related experiences will also be evaluated, such as working with livestock, breeding/ showing dogs or similar, working at a zoo, aquarium or pet shop, equestrian activities, volunteer time at an animal shelter/rescue, etc., and these should be included in the “Animal Experience” section of the VMCAS application. Like veterinary experience, animal experience will be evaluated on duration with at least 100 hours or more contact time highly recommended; multiple activities of long duration are preferred. This category doesn’t include pet ownership.*
<a href=“http://www.cvm.ncsu.edu/studentservices/admissions.html[/url]”>http://www.cvm.ncsu.edu/studentservices/admissions.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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