What are schools known for?

[thelarson]

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What are different veterinary schools notorious for (i.e. equine, small animal, a more holistic approach, etc.)? I'm specifically interested in Ohio State, Tufts, Cornell, CSU, UC Davis, and Washington State, but I'd love to hear about all the others, too.

 

[m&ossyducks]

CSU= equine orthopedics

 

[StealthDog]

The University of Minnesota does a lot of research, and genetics in particular. They also have a great DVM/MPH dual degree program. The teaching hospital has one of the largest case loads in the country, and they work really hard to get you into the clinics ASAP (clerk duty in the large animal hospital starts first year, and you do "mini rotations" in the small animal hospital second year). There are lots of interns and residents, but I've yet to run into a situation where I've felt like I'm in the way in the hospital.

 

[lailanni]

That is a great question!

I'd be interested to know about Oklahoma, Oregon and Washington too...

Is there any one really outstanding school for exotics?

 

[rexosaurus]

CSU is also known for holistic approaches to vet med
Tufts is very much biomedical reasearch involved

 

[StealthDog]

Is there any one really outstanding school for exotics?

I've heard great things about Kansas for exotics.

 

[pressmom]

Here at Tennessee we're known for our exotics program. (In third year everyone takes multi-species medicine. There is a mandatory rotation in the exotics department for everyone 4th year too!) We also have a very popular DVM/MPH program. In the first three years you have 1-2 weeks per semester of problem-based learning and in years 2-3 we have 1 week of clinical exposure each semester, during which you are paired with a fourth year for a week and get to spend it in the clinical area of your choice. Our class size is small (70 people), so you really get to know everyone quite well. The clinics have a really strong open-door policy and they're always willing to tell you what is going on. We're also opening a new wing of small animal/exotics in the spring. Very exciting stuff!

 

[bunnygirl]

Is there any one really outstanding school for exotics?

I've heard CSU Florida and UTK are great with exotics..

Does anyone know what Louisiana is known for??

 

[handh02]

What about any of the overseas schools? Any one know what the different Aussie and NZ schools are well know for?

 

[WhtsThFrequency]

VMRCVM has a huge infectious disease and epidemiology research base. We also have a nice emphasis on herd health and management for the large animal inclined (we are an "agg" school after all 😉 )

 

[LittleBit]

LSU has a fairly strong laboratory animal program. Last year, 6 out of 80 some graduates went into residencies. Our lab animal vets are fantastic and really want to help place any students that are interested.
Our equine dept is also fairly strong with a good mix of clinicians who see patients & clinicians doing research. We also have a pretty active equine club with quite a few wetlabs.
I'm not really sure what else we might be known for, but we just got another cardiologist (we now have 2) and a new anesthesiologist.
We don't currently have an oncologist, even though they just built a new ward for that.

Purdue should have at least a decent exotics program. Last year, they got one of our exotic animal vets who's pretty fantastic. (Dr. Mitchell, for anyone who might be interested). And I second the fact that Tennessee has an awesome exotics program.

 

[caliK463]

does anyone know of any schools that deal with marine mammal medicine? i have heard that some schools have a class or two relating to this topic but i wasnt able to get specifics

 

[Kara31191]

From what I've heard

Ohio is known for large animal.
Florida, Tennessee, and Kansas are small animal exotics.

My vet asked where I was thinking of going. She went to Tufts but wished she went to Florida because she's an exotics vet. That's what I've heard though.

-Kara

 

[Cheska]

From what I've heard

Ohio is known for large animal.
Florida, Tennessee, and Kansas are small animal exotics.

My vet asked where I was thinking of going. She went to Tufts but wished she went to Florida because she's an exotics vet. That's what I've heard though.

-Kara

Off topic- I'm very sorry about your bird Kara! 🙁

 

[Duke07]

Does anyone know what Georgia or Auburn are known for?

 

[ri23]

Does anyone know what Georgia or Auburn are known for?

When I was asking questions at my interview at OSU I was told that Georgia has a good exotics/wildlife program.

Ohio State has a good equine/large animal program. Also, we typically have a pretty good football team 😉.

 

[hoodle]

Keep in mind that for basic small animal, EVERYWHERE is good.
Equine, Wildlife/Exotics, and Research are all different subspecialities.

Equine: UPenn, UC-Davis

Holistic - Colorado, maybe?

Research: Penn, Cornell, Davis, Wisconsin come to mind as the tops in the fields. NC-State also, although only through the vet school (ie, its programs independent of the vet school aren't as noteworthy, whereas the other 4 I listed have highly regarded graduate groups supporting their vet-related research).

Wildlife/Exotics: Florida, UC-Davis (florida due to the everglades, seaworld, etc; Davis due in part to the San Diego Zoo!)

Look at http://www.virmp.org/virmp/searchnew.aspx to search schools for residencies that they offer; this gives an idea of what they consider their strengths.

 

[pressmom]

Does anyone know what Georgia or Auburn are known for?

Auburn has AMAZING brand-new large animal facilities.

 

[JerseyisCutest]

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[ri23]

Only because we lost! 😉 It's such a shame.....I think most of Morgantown is still in shock, but I guess there's always next year


the #2 position is cursed I do believe.

No, both the 1 and 2 teams lost, so either way we would have been in the game. Honestly, I would have rather played WVU (and I do feel bad for all of the people in our class from West Virginia). Hopefully national championships round two will be better than round one!

 

[JerseyisCutest]

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[catlover25]

Anyone know if any schools are known for good feline training programs?

 

[ri23]

Anyone know if any schools are known for good feline training programs?

Pretty much all schools have good canine/feline training.

As for OSU - yes game days are huge here. It is hard to drive anywhere before and after the game. Ohio State fans can be pretty intense.

 

[Electrophile]

Mizzou is known for having pretty much 2 full years for clinics and preceptorships. We only have 6 week summers to accomodate this. Our food animal clinic gets in students from other universities that don't have as much of a caseload apparently. Our orthopedic surgery is excellent and neurology is good too. We also have RADIL (the research animal diagnostic lab), which is apparently the largest of its kind if I remember. Mizzou is one of the few public research 1 schools and it's one of the few with a vet, law, and medical schools on the same campus, so research is excellent. Not gonna lie though, kinda wish I would have gone to CSU for holistics, but I didn't apply.

We weren't known for football...until this year! Curse of being ranked #1, drat!

 

[alliecat44]

I should probably know more about my school, but these are strengths of KSU:

--Exotics: Dr. Carpenter was just named President of the American College of Zoological Medicine and is pretty much the nicest guy EVER 🙂
--Large animal: big caseload, and more than 50% of my class is large animal
--Public health: KSU is one of the top five finalists for the future location of Plum Island (!!). We also recently opened a Level III (I believe) biohazard research facility and are pretty big on bioterrorism/defense research, etc. Pretty cool.
--Rabies: regarded by some to be the best rabies lab in the world.

 

[bunnygirl]

Anyone know if any schools are known for good feline training programs?

Cornell is known for their feline medicine/research. They also have a great feline conference every year!

 

[LeahUnderTheSea]

does anyone know of any schools that deal with marine mammal medicine? i have heard that some schools have a class or two relating to this topic but i wasnt able to get specifics

If you don't mind being International, UPEI in Canada has an amazing marine mammal program for its DMV students. The vet students respond to strandings, etc. The strandings networks in the maritimes work really closely with them, and UPEI DMV students do all the necroscopies.

Just a thought.

 

[Red Dobie]

No, both the 1 and 2 teams lost, so either way we would have been in the game. Honestly, I would have rather played WVU (and I do feel bad for all of the people in our class from West Virginia). Hopefully national championships round two will be better than round one!

If I'm Ohio State, I want no part of WVU and their spread-option. Tressell can not defend against it, ie: Florida, Illinois games. Pat White would have carved up tOSU's secondary. I'd rather have had Missouri, Chase Daniel is good but Mizzou's offense is much less lethal to my Buckeye's then the Mountaineer's O.

 

[shuvball1]

Chase Daniel went to one of my rival high schools, one year below me, crazy huh? His school, Southlake, always beat us... in football at least...

 

[caliK463]

If you don't mind being International, UPEI in Canada has an amazing marine mammal program for its DMV students. The vet students respond to strandings, etc. The strandings networks in the maritimes work really closely with them, and UPEI DMV students do all the necroscopies.

Just a thought.

Thanks! I will look into it 🙂

 

[ri23]

If I'm Ohio State, I want no part of WVU and their spread-option. Tressell can not defend against it, ie: Florida, Illinois games. Pat White would have carved up tOSU's secondary. I'd rather have had Missouri, Chase Daniel is good but Mizzou's offense is much less lethal to my Buckeye's then the Mountaineer's O.

I agree with you on that (from my limited football knowledge), but I'm not looking forward to playing another SEC team.

 

[Mike263]

Does anyone know what Purdue, va-md, and u. of Illinois is known for?

 

[WhtsThFrequency]

VA-MD: many things but mostly a lot of very cutting edge research, a nice infectious disease and epidemiology focus for those who are inclined, and lots of expensive clinical "toys" 😉 which make 4th year fun.

 

[Hollycozza]

What about any of the overseas schools? Any one know what the different Aussie and NZ schools are well know for?

Sydney is pretty general, I haven't really heard of any of the schools being better than the others for anything in particular. We do have a new wildlife hospital at Sydney.

 

[WhtsThFrequency]

Off topic - Hollycozza, did you know Jennie Hodgson when she taught at Sydney? She is over here at Va-Md now and did part of my Bacti class - I LOVE her! All of us southwest-Va Americans were at first quite overwhelmed with the rapid-fire Aussie speech - we are used to the slow southern drawl 😉

We would joke that every lecture was like having a "mini-seizure", but she is a stupendous teacher.
What's wrong with this kett?
The what?
The kett.
The wha.....Oh! The cat!

 

[SweeTeaPie]

does anyone know of any schools that deal with marine mammal medicine? i have heard that some schools have a class or two relating to this topic but i wasnt able to get specifics

caliK463, both UPenn and Cornell have a joint program called AQUAVET. You should look into that. Hope that's helpful!

 

[ylrebmik]

There seems to be a lot of threads like this but most people don't mention Michigan... so what is Michigan good for? 🙂

&& Illonois?

 

[laurafinn]

Sydney is pretty general, I haven't really heard of any of the schools being better than the others for anything in particular.

Same is true of Massey... it offers a good, general vet education. The school's emphasis is on teaching, rather than research. There are some really outstanding lecturers here.

The second year of classes has a significant animal science component, emphasizing pastoral production, so you'll learn more about grass than you ever wanted to know. 😛 There is one course in the second year, Mechanisms of Disease, that is PBL-ish, the rest is lecture/lab.

 

[thelarson]

Though I'm only an undergrad at Michigan State, I do research through the CVM, so here's what I see as a few of our strengths (but don't consider this a full list):

- equine sports medicine (both research and clinical)
- equine in general - it seems that the majority of the large animal cases that are brought to the hospital are equine, plus we have pulmonary, therio, and lameness research, all geared towards horses
- oncology (just built a brand new comparative oncology center)

 

[Hollycozza]

😍 Jennie is wonderful 😍 sigh. Our loss is your huge gain! Her husband Dave is meant to be brilliant too, but alas I missed out on learning my horse medicine from him by one year, as they left Sydney midway through 2007. I hope they are having a wonderful time there, they're such great people. Tell her we miss them for me!!!!!!!!

Off topic - Hollycozza, did you know Jennie Hodgson when she taught at Sydney? She is over here at Va-Md now and did part of my Bacti class - I LOVE her! All of us southwest-Va Americans were at first quite overwhelmed with the rapid-fire Aussie speech - we are used to the slow southern drawl 😉

We would joke that every lecture was like having a "mini-seizure", but she is a stupendous teacher.
What's wrong with this kett?
The what?
The kett.
The wha.....Oh! The cat!

 

[LVT2DVM]

NCSU is known for their Oncology Dept, Anesthesia/Pain Management Research and Animal Behavior (no animal behaviorist in surrounding states so they get tons of referrals).

 

[FractiousCat]

CSU is well known for their oncology department.

 

[cows93]

I am interested in large (Food) animal and have three possible choices open U PEnn (hold), Wisconsin (definite invite) and U Tenn (interview). Anyone help on is any better?

 

[LSU SVM]

The LSU SVM's two very strong areas are in Equine and Exotics. More information can be found at:

Equine - www.equine.vetmed.lsu.edu/

Exotics - www.vetmed.lsu.edu/vth&c/BZEM.htm
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[RazorDoc2010]

I agree with you on that (from my limited football knowledge), but I'm not looking forward to playing another SEC team.

OT: mwahaha, 'bout time you northerners start realizing! 🙂

OK, back on topic (just in addition to electrophile), in regards to research, I can't tell you how many times I've heard about our transgenic pig research here. Apparently, we're a leader in the area, with the professor who discovered the alpha-galactosyltransferase rejection thing-a-ma-bobber. We do have a great orthopedic group and their work in the Comparative Orthopaedics lab is nationally recognized pretty often.

 

[Gordo]

From what I've heard

Ohio is known for large animal.
Florida, Tennessee, and Kansas are small animal exotics.

My vet asked where I was thinking of going. She went to Tufts but wished she went to Florida because she's an exotics vet. That's what I've heard though.

-Kara

Florida is definatly great with the exotics AND wildlife/zoo animals. They are also excellent with the large animals. I have had to take my horse there and it was incredible, the drs and staff were great and the facilities were amazing. I also had a tour of the whole hospital and think it would be a great place to go no matter what you were interested in.

 

[Gordo]

I agree with you on that (from my limited football knowledge), but I'm not looking forward to playing another SEC team.

This is a little off the topic but I work at a clinic were the owner graduated frrom UF and the associate was from Ohio state. It was great when the football season came around the year the gators won the BCS, although the vet from Ohio state wasn't much into sports.

 

[ri23]

This is a little off the topic but I work at a clinic were the owner graduated frrom UF and the associate was from Ohio state. It was great when the football season came around the year the gators won the BCS, although the vet from Ohio state wasn't much into sports.

Had the associate been more into sports it would have been much more fun for her this past year - the year the gators lost to UM (aka the team that lost to Appalachian State).

 

[Barnaby]

Hey guys,

I'm thinking about specializing in small animal but specifically i might aim to become a board cert. neurologist.

i know that if i go that route, my place of internship/residency will be important, but do you guys have any thoughts about which schools might offer better opportunities to learn about and explore neuro cases?

 

[alliecat44]

Hi, Barnaby! I worked as a neurology technician in private practice for three years. If you're seriously considering neuro, I'd recommend trying to attend a vet school that has a neurologist on staff. It's important to realize that not all do! Those that don't usually have an internist who deals with any neuro case. Speaking from experience, boarded neurologists tend to approach and manage cases a bit differently than internists--so to get a real feel for what the specialty is all about--and for a high neuro caseload--I'd recommend trying a school with a neurologist on staff.

That said, all is certainly not lost if your school doesn't have one! You can always do externships at schools/practices with a neurologist, or choose to shadow/work with one during your summer breaks.

If you have any questions about neuro, feel free to PM me. 🙂 Neuro's still in my "top 3" choices for future specialization. 🙂