Jill Kruskall. Age: 31 (USA) Tufts University (Qualified Vet) I was very fortunate to participate in the Veterinary Student Program at ARCAS in February 2016. The program provided a really amazing window into the world of wildlife medicine and conservation in Central America.
Jun 09, 2020 · In our article Wildlife Health Career Paths we discussed the different types of wildlife veterinarians, including free-ranging wildlife vets, zoo vets, and wildlife rehabilitation vets. Of these three categories, the path to becoming a free ranging wildlife veterinarian is probably the least clear, and one that students tend to have the most questions about.
2022-2023 VMCAS Application Cycle is now open and will close on September 15, 2022. Preparing your application is the first step you’ll take on your journey to becoming a veterinarian. The AAVMC’s VMCAS is a user-friendly system for applying to veterinary medical schools. Please review the “Before Applying” section for information about school prerequisites, general […]
Applicant instructions for completing VS form 1-36A, National Veterinary Accreditation Program Application Form, This form must be completed, signed, and dated by the applicant before submission. Original signature is required.
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The American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC) is a non-profit membership organization working to protect and improve the health and welfare of animals, people, and the environment by advancing academic veterinary medicine.
The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) Council on Education (COE) accredits DVM or equivalent educational programs. The COE is recognized by CHEA as the accrediting body for schools and programs that offer the professional DVM degree, or its equivalent in the US and Canada.
If your transcript lists labs separately, you must list them as separate courses on your application as well Record the labs exactly as they appear on your transcript If your transcript combines lab and lecture courses into one course, list it as one course on your application . Test Credits.
The purpose of the NWRA Wildlife Medicine Course is to provide an opportunity for professional students in accredited veterinary schools to gain formal training in medicine, surgery, and captive management of native wildlife species.
Dr. Karen Alroy received her Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine and Masters in Public Health from Tufts University in 2012. With strong interests in public health and wildlife medicine, Karen has pursued both of these areas throughout her career. As a veterinary student, she conducted externships at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, the Wildlife Health Center at U.C. Davis, and the Southeastern Cooperative for Wildlife Disease Study at University of Georgia. As a Fogarty Scholar with Johns Hopkins University, Karen lived and worked in Peru where she studied the epidemiology of zoonotic diseases, in particular Chagas disease and neurocysticercosis. After finishing vet school, she conducted a small animal emergency medicine internship at Friendship Hospital for Animals in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Purdin is the Director of Veterinary Services at the Lindsay Wildlife Experience in Walnut Creek, California , where the wildlife hospital treats over 5500 patients a year and also provides medical care to their collection of educational animal “ambassadors”. Dr. Purdin began working with wildlife as a volunteer at the Marine Mammal Center where he was active for 18 years. To expand his knowledge of wildlife rehabilitation, he also began working with birds and land mammals at several California wildlife shelters. After making his living as a professional jeweler and then as a movie propmaker in Hollywood, he decided to pursue a full-time career in veterinary medicine and wildlife rehabilitation. He received a BS in Marine Biology from San Francisco State University and his DVM from the University of California, Davis. Since graduation, he has provided medical care for a myriad of animal species, both wild and domestic. Previously the shelter veterinarian for the Wildlife Care Association and a member of their board of directors, Dr. Purdin has been with Lindsay Wildlife since March 2013.
Dr. Rebecca Duerr is the clinical veterinarian and research director at International Bird Rescue's two wildlife clinics in California. She completed her DVM, MPVM, and PhD degrees at University of California Davis, with graduate work on the care of oiled Common Murres and on the nutritional energetics and physiology of Common Murres and Western Grebes. She is just starting (2016) work on co-editing the second edition of Hand-Rearing Birds, co-wrote the wild orphans section of 10th and 11th editions of Merck Veterinary Manual, just finished Seabird Medicine and Orphan Care chapters for a new textbook on wildlife medicine, and is slowly getting all her graduate papers from the intersection of seabird biology and clinical wildlife medicine published. She serves on the Board of Directors of the National Wildlife Rehabilitators Association and is a frequent lecturer at UC Davis on avian physiology and pediatrics.
Dr. Schott is a full-time staff veterinarian at the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Minnesota (WRC), one of the largest rehabilitation centers in the country. She has been involved in wildlife rehabilitation for over 13 years and has worked at wildlife rehabilitation centers across the country. Additionally, Renée is involved in teaching courses at the University of Minnesota-College of Veterinary Medicine, does relief work at The Raptor Center in St Paul, is a Course Instructor for the International Wildlife Rehabilitation Council, is the co-chair for the NWRA’s veterinary committee, and lectures across the country on wildlife rehabilitation and medicine.
Dr. Dave is from the small rural community of East Gore, Nova Scotia Canada. He obtained a B.Sc. in biology at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick (1999), and then a M.Sc. in ecology and evolutionary biology from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario (2001). From 2001-2005, Dr. Dave attended the Atlantic Veterinary College and acquired his veterinary degree. After graduating, he went west to conduct an internship in zoological medicine, exotics, and wildlife at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (2005-2006). Dr. Dave then traveled east (August 2006) to become the veterinary resident in preventative medicine at the Wildlife Center of Virginia. Dr. Dave became a Diplomat in the American College of Veterinary Preventative Medicine in August 2009. Since 2008, Dr. Dave has served as the Center’s director of veterinary services, where he trains veterinarians and veterinary students in wildlife and conservation medicine. He is responsible for overseeing the teaching hospital, supervising the creation of an innovative software program designed to monitor trends in wildlife health (WILD-ONe), and treats and supervises treatment on native wildlife.
Dr. Huckabee holds BS degrees in Zoology and in Veterinary Science and received his DVM from the College of Veterinary Medicine at Texas A&M University in 1985. He has been Staff Wildlife Veterinarian with Progressive Animal Welfare Society’s Wildlife Department in Lynnwood, Washington, since 1998. Prior to moving to the Pacific Northwest he was Director and Staff Veterinarian of the Wildlife Center of Harris County Precinct 4 in southeast Texas from 1991 to 1998. While in Texas, Dr. Huckabee was actively involved on wildlife advisory committees and task forces for Harris County, the City of Houston, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, and on the Zoological Medicine Advisory Panel at Texas A&M University. He served on the Advisory Committee of the Pierce College Veterinary Technology Program and the Zoonotic Disease Steering Committing of the Washington Department of Health. Dr. Huckabee served on the Board of Directors of the National Wildlife Rehabilitators Association from 1995 to 2003.