As someone who is getting ready to start veterinary school, I get asked one question more than any other, “Do you want to work with small or large animals?” If I had a nickel for every time I went on to explain what public health is and how I’ll like to work in the gray […]
Off to the CDC for Me!
This month, I traveled to Atlanta, Georgia to take an epidemiology course at Emory University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The opportunity to study applied epidemiology and public health at such a renowned institution was absolutely amazing. Every professor for the course inspired me to continue to think about the world around […]
Public Health in Small Animal Practice
Although the majority of veterinary students will choose to become small animal practitioners as their career path, public health is still an important topic in daily practice. We don’t have to be an ACVIM to pass the NAVLE, and the same is true for public health, we don’t have to be an epidemiologist to deal […]