Starting veterinary school can be just as daunting as applying or acing pre-veterinary coursework. Sometimes, all someone needs to make the leap into their first year of a veterinary program is a little support and guidance from someone who gets it.

ZEWA, the College of Veterinary Medicine’s zoo, exotics, wildlife, and aquatics club, is cultivating relationships inside and outside of the College. In 2023, ZEWA connected with Birds and Beaks Rescue and Rehab to facilitate exciting hands-on learning experiences for student veterinarians.

Breanna Demaline, a fourth-year veterinary student, was selected out of six student leaders nationwide to receive the Regional Leader of the Year award from the Veterinary Business Management Association. Demaline explains her involvement with the VBMA.

Clerkship students traveled around Mexico treating equids and growing their clinical skills through daily practice. The students had the opportunity to work in partnership with Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and Universidad Veracruzana (UV). They shared their experiences with unique patients, rare conditions, and singular procedure conditions that are difficult to replicate in a hospital setting.

We talked to Shayna Glase, a second-year Veterinary Nursing student, about her job at the MSU Veterinary Medical Center.

This summer, 26 student researchers attended the 2022 National Veterinary Scholars Symposium. "The most valuable part was seeing science being pushed to new lengths by my own peers and being able to make connections with other minority veterinary students."

You’re a middle-school student faced with an animal patient: Comet, a ten-year-old Bichon Frise whose leg appears injured after a jump from a bunk bed. What do you do?

Three 2021 graduates of the Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine have published one of their DVM course assignments as a knowledge summary in the journal Veterinary Evidence.

The Multicultural Scholars Program sponsors five veterinary students who come from populations that are underrepresented in the veterinary medical field, and aims to create a more diverse workforce in food animal medicine.

Congratulations to the veterinary professionals who applied for and matched to the Veterinary Internship and Residency Matching Program!

Kaitlyn Nikirk, DVM Class of 2024, writes about her experiences serving as a moderator at an exotic animal medicine convention.