WCVM featured in Star Phoenix

Large animal surgeon Dr. David Wilson (right) demonstrates surgical knots to second-year veterinary students Karyn Arthur (centre) and Byron Hamlund (left) during a surgical exercises lab in the food animal teaching centre.

The Western College of Veterinary Medicine was one of the featured educational institutions in the “Road to Higher Learning,” a post-secondary education supplement produced by the Saskatoon Star Phoenix.

The article, which includes comments from WCVM Dean Dr. Charles Rhodes, highlights the veterinary college’s education, clinical and research programs. “We aren’t the largest veterinary school in North America, but I think our students match up with any other veterinary graduate in the world,” says Rhodes.

The college’s dean also gave an update on WCVM’s $71-million construction project that includes several new expansions and renovations of the college’s existing facilities. “The construction involves all areas of the college to some degree,” says Rhodes, pointing out that approximately 70 per cent of the college’s major construction projects are now complete.

For more recent updates about WCVM’s projects and initiatives, please download your own copy of The Ark (Winter 2008), the veterinary college’s news publication.