As a Certified Veterinary Technician in the OSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Sara Short sees dogs of all kinds in the course of an average work day, and because many of these pets have been referred by family veterinarians, they are often seriously ill or injured. Last month, Short had an opportunity to work with dogs […]
Archive for March, 2014
Iditarod Dream Comes True for VTH Technician
Monday, March 31st, 2014Seminar on Modern Agriculture
Monday, March 31st, 2014Dr. Gary Sides, a beef nutritionist with Zoetis will present “Defending Modern Agriculture in a Facebook Culture” on Wednesday, April 2, 2014, Noon – 1 p.m., Magruder Hall, Room 102.. Dr. Sides has a Ph.D. in ruminant physiology and nutrition, and twenty years experience in livestock physiology, nutrition, and production. He will speak on the […]
CVM Student Creates Veterinary Neurology Experience for High Schoolers
Monday, March 31st, 2014Annamaria Tadlock is a third year student in CVM and a past-president of the Student Ambassador club. Their purpose is to promote veterinary medicine and the college to the public, and she has led various events in the Corvallis community doing just that. One event in particular took place last summer and Annamaria was eager […]
Ruminating on Ruminants in VMC740
Friday, March 28th, 2014Monica Tam is from San Francisco, California and had never worked with sheep or goats before signing up for course number VMC740. The Sheep and Goat Medicine & Surgery elective taught by Dr. Erica McKenzie provides students like Tam with valuable animal handling and clinical practice opportunities. “I gained a lot of experience using the […]
Vet Students Invited to International Wildlife Symposium
Friday, March 28th, 2014The International Symposium on Wildlife Utilization in Southern Africa (ISWU) is a biennial symposium dealing with veterinary involvement in wildlife management. It serves as a platform for a variety of leading speakers to address veterinary students on a host of wildlife management topics and the role of the veterinarian in wildlife utilization. Speakers are both […]
CVM Alum Develops Organic Horse Fly Repellant
Monday, March 10th, 2014At the Pilchuk Veterinary Hospital in Snohomish Washington, beavers are everywhere. Not the aquatic, furry kind; the OSU Vet Med kind. Three co-owners of the practice are OSU alums: Tim John (class of 1990), Jeff Duke (Class of 1984), and Kevin Wilson (Class of 2001). Dr. Duke’s areas of special interest are surgery and small […]
