As the late afternoon sun pours into the glass lobby of Magruder hall, students from different colleges around the valley gather around Patrick Kamins, Student Services Coordinator, asking for directions to the IPE rooms. Enrolled in Interprofessional Education, they are joining CVM students in small groups to discuss specific public health cases. In one conference [...]
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Sunday, April 28th, 2013Students See Acupuncture in Action
Tuesday, March 5th, 2013Fourth-year students on morning rounds in the large animal hospital last Friday had an opportunity to see acupuncture in action. Dr. Jacob Mecham was treating a horse with a paralyzed arytenoid cartilage in her larynx by placing acupuncture needles in her neck. Student Melissa Flora helped by reading a list of designated locations from a [...]
Students Deliver at OSU Sheep Center
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013Despite a substantial reduction in the number of sheep in the OSU sheep barns, CVM students are still getting some terrific experience by helping with the lambing this spring. Last year an outbreak of Q fever and Johne’s disease in the flock required managers to test and remove infected ewes. Then they implemented a radical [...]
Vet Students From Brazil Enjoy OSU
Tuesday, January 15th, 2013Veterinary medical school is hard work for anyone. Imagine taking Small Animal Medicine in Chinese. That’s the kind of challenge Ana Berreta and Jacqueline Hanassaka are tackling as exchange students enrolled full-time in CVM classes. Although the two students from Brazil speak English well, processing large quantities of technical information in a foreign language can [...]
Rehab Vulture Treated with Acupuncture
Wednesday, October 24th, 2012By Claire Peterson (Class of 2013) Two of OSU CVM’s clinicians, Dr. Aurora Villarroel and Dr. Jacob Mecham (Rural Veterinary Practice – RVP), are earning their certification process in veterinary acupuncture. They hope to use these skills in practice to help many different species, including -apparently- turkey vultures! Ferdinand is one of the education birds [...]
CVM Student Completes Grueling Endurance Ride
Monday, October 1st, 2012The Western States Trail Ride, also known as the Tevis Cup, is widely considered the toughest endurance ride in the world. The trail follows part of the original Pony Express route through 100 miles of steep canyons, rocky pinnacles, sheer drop-offs, and deep forest in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Competitors have only 24 hours to [...]
