Student News
Bovine case earns award for WCVM student
April 13th, 2012
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Patty Tulloch, a third-year veterinary student at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM), won the Student Case Presentation Award during the Western Canadian Association of Bovine Practitioners’ (WCABP) annual conference in January 2012. Tulloch’s presentation, “Understanding and controlling variability in bulk tank milk (BTM) iodine in Western Canada,” was based on research that she conducted during the summer of …
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Poster day showcases WCVM research
What exactly do graduate students at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM) investigate in their research programs? Based on the research displayed during the WCVM’s annual Graduate Student Poster Days, the college’s graduate students are studying a wide range of topics — everything from initiatives in clinical and basic sciences to translational research and comparative medicine projects. More than …
March 22nd, 2012 Full story »
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WCVM students journey beyond borders
Veterinarians Without Borders/Vétérinaires sans Frontières (VWB/VSF – Canada) has selected six students from the Western College of Veterinary Medicine to be part of its 12-member student program for 2012. This summer, WCVM students Colin Taylor, Rebecca Jackson, Graham Ellingsen, Andrea Pellegrino, Morgan Findlay and Steve Kruzeniski will travel to Asia, South America and Africa as volunteers for the global veterinary …
March 01st, 2012 Full story »
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Specialized success
Several WCVM residents and faculty members have recently achieved success in their respective specialties. Congratulations to the following veterinarians: • Dr. Fiona Tam, who completed her Master of Veterinary Science (MVetSc) degree and small animal internal medicine residency at the WCVM in 2011, passed the certifying examination of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM). Tam is now …
December 05th, 2011 Full story »
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Excellent externships
After the last celebratory toast had been made and the Western College of Veterinary Medicine’s Class of 2006 had paid off their grad party expenses, they were faced with a decision: what should they do with the leftover money? It was a problem that previous graduating classes had solved through donations to the WCVM or to the College’s Veterinary Medical …
November 29th, 2011 Full story »
