Has anyone done Cornell summer dairy institute after 2nd year?

[Rainer Borgmann]

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I'm a first year DVM student at Purdue University. I'm curious if anyone here has participated in the Cornell summer dairy institute after their 2nd year. It seems the intention is for students to do it after 3rd year, or after graduation. With the Purdue schedule of starting 4th year right at the beginning of the summer, I don't think it would be possible for me to do it between 3rd and 4th year. It says on the website that 2nd years with strong dairy backgrounds will be considered.

Just curious to see others thoughts/opinions. I had over 7000 hrs of production livestock experience coming into school (calf raiser, dairy herdsman, manager) and 500 hrs of food animal vet shadowing experience. This coming summer I will be doing research with a faculty member from the Bovine field service here at Purdue. From a dairy industry knowledge perspective I think I will be fine. I'm just not sure about the medicine side of things.

 

[honeypot999]

If it says you’re welcome to apply for the summer between 2nd and 3rd year I think that would be fine especially if you have good background in dairy.

If that doesn’t work out, there’s always the food systems fellowship at Michigan state you can do. I did it last year and learned a lot about the regulatory side of vet medicine.

 

[supershorty]

I think @Viscernable did this program, maybe.

 

[battie]

I'm a first year DVM student at Purdue University. I'm curious if anyone here has participated in the Cornell summer dairy institute after their 2nd year. It seems the intention is for students to do it after 3rd year, or after graduation. With the Purdue schedule of starting 4th year right at the beginning of the summer, I don't think it would be possible for me to do it between 3rd and 4th year. It says on the website that 2nd years with strong dairy backgrounds will be considered.

Just curious to see others thoughts/opinions. I had over 7000 hrs of production livestock experience coming into school (calf raiser, dairy herdsman, manager) and 500 hrs of food animal vet shadowing experience. This coming summer I will be doing research with a faculty member from the Bovine field service here at Purdue. From a dairy industry knowledge perspective I think I will be fine. I'm just not sure about the medicine side of things.

You got nothing to lose by applying, my dude, so go for it! The worst they'll say is no.

 

[Viscernable]

I'm a first year DVM student at Purdue University. I'm curious if anyone here has participated in the Cornell summer dairy institute after their 2nd year. It seems the intention is for students to do it after 3rd year, or after graduation. With the Purdue schedule of starting 4th year right at the beginning of the summer, I don't think it would be possible for me to do it between 3rd and 4th year. It says on the website that 2nd years with strong dairy backgrounds will be considered.

Just curious to see others thoughts/opinions. I had over 7000 hrs of production livestock experience coming into school (calf raiser, dairy herdsman, manager) and 500 hrs of food animal vet shadowing experience. This coming summer I will be doing research with a faculty member from the Bovine field service here at Purdue. From a dairy industry knowledge perspective I think I will be fine. I'm just not sure about the medicine side of things.

Hi! I did SDI after 3rd year at Purdue as an off-campus block (well, 2 off-campus blocks. Well, an off-campus block and an externship block, for irrelevant bureaucratic reasons). I’d encourage you to apply 2nd year because you have nothing to lose for trying. There were one or two rising-3rd-years years in my SDI class. But if you don’t get accepted, attending during or just after fourth year is absolutely possible.

Because only 50-something off-campus blocks are approved per class, how easy it is to have them approved depends on how many people in your class apply for them (this is usually more-or-less about how many have strong large animal or exotics interest). My class didn’t even have 50 off-campus block applications submitted, so all reasonable ones (meaning requests that fit the criteria of something without a comparable experience available at Purdue) were approved and several of us took 2 or 3. Dr. Weisman knows of and seemed enthusiastic about the program when I asked him about applying for an off-campus block, so I think even if OCBs are more competitive in your year it shouldn’t be a problem.

Good luck on your application! No matter when you attend, you’ll have a blast.