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Summer Student Swine Experience Program Offers Veterinary Students Hands-on Experience

photo credit: Canadian Pork Council
photo credit: Canadian Pork Council

Western College of Veterinary Medicine undergraduate students are once again being offered the opportunity to gain hands on summer experience working with swine

   by Bruce Cochrane – Farmscape.ca
 

The Pharmhouse Summer Student Swine Experience Program, which offers first and second year veterinary students summer work experience with swine, is moving into its second year.

Dr. John Harding, a professor in the Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences with the Western College of Veterinary Medicine, says the program provides experience in three areas, production, swine medicine and research.

“The ultimate goal is to help recruit graduate veterinarians into swine practice, whether it be a corporate production company or a swine specialty practice or simply a mixed animal-food animal practice
 
 
 
 
 

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