October 31, 2008
UNL Veterinary Medicine Students Get National Honor
LINCOLN, Neb. — In just the program's second year, students in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Professional Program in Veterinary Medicine are proving they are among the best in the nation.
The UNL Student Chapter of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners recently won first place in a competition at the American Association of Bovine Practitioners' annual meeting.
The club, composed of veterinary students in UNL's veterinary medicine program, was honored for a case report it submitted to the AABP Student Case Presentation Competition. The report summarized club members' findings in a project in which they studied reproductive health problems at a dairy.
The report was one of 11 selected for presentation at the AABP's annual meeting in North Carolina this fall. Students Jennafer Glaesemann of Fairbury, Neb., and Jeffry Faimon of Lawrence, Neb., gave the winning presentation.
Last year was the club's first year in existence – and the first year for the Professional Program in Veterinary Medicine – and all club members now are sophomores, making their achievement even more impressive, since their competition was composed of third- and fourth-year students.
"This is an exceptional accomplishment because they were competing with the best abstracts selected from veterinary colleges across the U.S. and Canada," said David Smith, veterinary professor in the Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences. "Further, the case presentations are usually from upper-class students. It is very unusual for students in their first year of veterinary school to be involved in clinical cases."
Six UNL students attended the AABP conference.
The Professional Program in Veterinary Medicine is a partnership with Iowa State University in which Nebraska students receive their first two years of education at UNL and complete their DVM educations at ISU.
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David R. Smith - DVM, Ph.D.
Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences
Assistant Professor
(402) 472-2362
Doug Hostetler - Ph.D.
Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Associate Professor
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Dan Moser IANR News & Photography Coordinator (402) 472-3007
Department: Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
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