1. School year internships (BIO 494) available at the VA State Agricultural Diagnostic Lab, Harrisonburg, working with Drs. David Brown (large animals) and Meza (poultry). This is a one term, 3 credit course that would allow you to work alongside vets and veterinary staff doing postmortems, necropsies, and seratological, PCR and microbiological tests to identify pathogens and other causes of death in farm animals from this vicinity. See Dr. Chris Rose if you are interested. Proposal must be written and submitted at the time of registration and there are often students in line for this, so please see me before the start of the term of intent.

2. Summer internships available through the Summer Intern Program (SIP) of the United States Department of Agriculture. SIP provides interested students a chance to earn money while working for the U.S.D.A during the summer months and gain valuable work experience. Applications for the positions will open on www.usajobs.gov on January 28 and will remain open until March 24th. Check http://www.usda.gov/da/employ/MRP2008SummerInternAnns.htm for a list of internships available and contact information.

3. For information on PreHealth summer undergraduate enrichment programs, check www.explorehealthcareers.org.

4. Summer 2010 Adventures in Veterinary Medicine program at Tufts University. The sessions for college students are being held May 31- june 4 and June 7-11, 2010. Currently entering its 20th year, our week long session for college students includes lectures and laboratories from some of our top veterinary faculty, researchers, and veterinary students, on timely and relevant topics. As part of their week here participants will have the opportunity to shadow fourth year veterinary students through our small animal hospital, large animal hospital, and wildlife clinic. Students will also listen to panel discussions, learn about the admission and financing process, and gain some hands-on experiences with animals. If you are trying to determine if veterinary medicine is the right career path for you, our program will provide you with valuable insights into the profession. For those who already know that veterinary medicine is their future profession, our program will allow you to experience what life as a veterinary student is like. Many of our past AVM participants have successfully gained admission into veterinary school here at Tufts University and at other schools. We encourage interested students to visit our web site at www.tufts.edu/vet/avm/ for more information. As our program continues to attract bright, motivated students who are seriously considering a career in veterinary medicine, admission remains competitive. There is no deadline for applying. However, as each session has limited seats, it is highly recommended that applications be submitted by early February. The admissions selection process begins in February and continues on a rolling basis until the sessions are full. For more information on the program, including eligibility, tuition and the online application, please visit our web site at www.tufts.edu/vet/avm, read the brochure or contact us at AVM@tufts.edu or 508-839-7962.

5. VETS Summer Camp Program at the University of Pennsylvannia. The Veterinary School at the University of Pennsylvania has created a summer program for both college and high school students (11th and 12th graders). The Veterinary Exploration Through Science (VETS) program is an exciting new experience which begins the summer of 2010. This is a day program of one week sessions. Two sessions have been designed specifically for college students and three sessions have been designed for high school students. The program has been created for those who are interested in the science of veterinary medicine.

Students will participate in rotations with our fourth-year vet students and experience veterinary medicine throughout our small animal hospital. Some areas the students will rotate through are Cardiology, Medicine, Dentistry, Emergency Services and Orthopedics.ĘSpecial labs in Pathology, Developmental Biology and Anatomy have been created specifically for the students participating in our program which will be taught by our renowned faculty or veterinary students. Additionally, a whole day will be devoted to our New Bolton Center, our large animal facility.ĘStudents will tour through the Marshak Dairy, Widener Hospital for Large Animals, Hoffman Reproduction Center and our state-of-the-art Swine facility. This ambitious program will also be supplemented by several lectures such as Public Health, Bovine Rumen demo, and Radiology to name a few. A student panel discussion will be held with our current vet students which will provide participants the opportunity to learn firsthand about our veterinary school through the student perspective. Additionally, participants will interact with members of the Admissions Office who are coordinating this program. One-on-one sessions with an Admissions officer can be arranged.

If you have been interested in a career in veterinary medicine, then this program will provide you with an understanding of the challenges and rewards of this profession. You will have the opportunity to interact with other students who have a similar passion and begin forging future relationships with those who care about science and medicine for animals. SeeVETS Summer Camp Program for more information.