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So I was wondering how everyone felt about their University's pre-vet club if there is one where you attend.
Love the one here at OSU, where I am the Publicity Chair.
We have a different speaker at each meeting. Some examples are a veterinary pathologist, a vet who owns and runs a low cost/high volume spay/neuter clinic, an emergency veterinarian, a veterinarian who works in academia, a large animal veterinarian, a veterinary opthamalogist, etc. We have necropsy wetlabs, do mock interviews, have a mentor program, volunteer at a spay/neuter clinic and a shelter, and have socials. We're a very active club and it's a lot of fun.
If your school's pre-vet club isn't all you'd like it to be, consider joining and running for office. I saw some things last year that I'd like to improve so I ran for exec board, got the position I did, and ended up being able to change a lot of things to improve the club.
When I was a freshman at Auburn, I joined the pre-vet club from out of state and was welcomed with open arms. Meetings were very beneficial and great volunteer opportunities were offered. I transferred to the University of Florida my junior year and joined the pre-vet club here. I felt like there were just too many people to be able to benefit from the club and the officers just kind of talked amongst themselves rather than reaching out to the new members. I feel if there is a smaller number of people it is a love 'em situation.
This makes me really sad!!! Do you still go here for undergrad??
SDN is better than any pre-vet club that could ever be formed at my school
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I can't speak for other schools, nor can I speak for this clubs current officer management - but...
My experience with the Pre-Veterinary Medical Association at UNC Wilmington was AMAZING!!!
We had talks from Kaplan concerning GRE and interview tips.
We had talks from volunteers who travelled to third world countries to perform free spay/neuter/vaccinations.
We were involved with the local Friends of Felines and would participate in humanely caputuring and castrating feral cats in the Wilmington area - with supervision the students are actually trained to perform the neuters and some students even perform their first spays with the club under Dr. Wheedon's supervision (it is legal in NC).
They have suture clinics, where they teach the students how to perform surgical sutures.
They have fieldtrips to the zoo and the medical facility at the zoo.
They are involved with the local animal shelters.
They have a huge Rabies Day activity every year where the vaccinate any animal brought to them for rabies FOR FREE (one of the thing club dues went to was paying for rabies vaccines).
They were absolutely amazing, and when the family moved leaving them was the most heartbreaking thing I had to do.
Love the one here at OSU, where I am the Publicity Chair.
I have had an extremely different view of OSU's pre-vet club. The experiences they offered sounded great but the first meeting I went to, I felt like an outsider to a bunch of cliques. I tried going to another meeting and sat all by myself-- nobody said a word to me. Granted, I'm not the most socially outgoing, but I felt awkward and decided to do other things with my time which is why I dropped OSU's pre-vet club and paved my own way with experiences and organizations....
Everyone has different experiences. If a pre-vet club works for you-go for it.
That's interesting. How long ago was this?
Lol, I love my shirts! I've got 2 of them!!!Not to mention, you guys have really kick-ass shirts!