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WHAT COURSES SHOULD I TAKE IN HIGH SCHOOL? Take all college preparatory courses in all major subjects, especially biology, chemistry, physics, calculus, trigonometry, statistics, environmental/earth science and English. Also important are computer science, history and languages. Take all at the highest level your high school offers. New York State students should earn a NYS Regents Diploma. IS VETERINARY EXPERIENCE IMPORTANT? Yes, students should start at an early age working or volunteering for a veterinarian, zoo or local animal shelter. Try to work with many animal species and not just cats and dogs. Keep track of the hours of experience you gain, and ask each supervisor for a letter of recommendation. When you apply to veterinary college, you will need letters of recommendation from each experience you list on your application. We hope you have time to visit our site to read about: Is veterinary medicine right for me? OPEN HOUSE 1999 SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 10 A.M. - 4 P.M. Back by popular demand! The 33rd annual Open House at the College of Veterinary Medicine. Each spring, students in Cornell's veterinary medicine program invite the community to visit the campus and see what veterinarians do. Families and children are encouraged to attend. Admission and parking are free. For those interested in learning more about veterinary education at Cornell, there also will be admissions information sessions throughout the day [for grade school, high school, college and adult students]. Visitors may talk with our current DVM students who will host the event and be present at virtually every exhibit or activity. This is an excellent opportunity for pre-vets to meet current students and exchange information on veterinary school. Especially popular are the Teddy Bear ER exhibit, where children can bring injured stuffed animals, and Surgeon Dress-Up, where children gown-up in scrubs and become veterinary surgeons. Other exhibits include milking cows, dentistry, poisonous plants, a petting zoo, a parrot exhibit, a bird-of-prey exhibit, an anatomically painted horse and cow, and much more. CORNELL'S DVM PROGRAM IS PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING Cornell's DVM Program is a highly unique program. Instead of dry lectures in large lecture halls, our program consists of mostly Problem-Based Learning (PBL). Cornell's program offers a unique choice for students: PBL vs. the more common lecture-based learning. To learn more about our program, visit our web site at: http://www.vet.cornell.edu/about/edu.htm and read our next article. FAQ: WHAT IS PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING? A: Problem-based learning (PBL) is a way of organizing curricula so that students' self-directed learning of important principles and concepts is prompted by and situated within real-world problems encountered in the profession. At the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine students study actual clinical cases from their first day in the DVM program, discussing written summaries, lab results, radiographs and other data associated with the case. With the guidance of a faculty tutor (small group facilitator) each tutorial group of six or seven students uses the clinical reasoning process to explore the basic science dimensions of the case. Students work through four iterative phases in problem-based learning. First, they reason through the problem presented in the written case, identifying educational needs or learning issues that need to be pursued, generating hypotheses and raising questions about the case. Second, students engage in a period of self-directed study in which they may pool their own knowledge, study textbooks and journal articles, consult with faculty experts, and explore other learning resources. Students then apply their new knowledge to the problem, probing the limits of their understandings, ruling out competing hypotheses, and evaluating their previous work. Finally, they summarize and integrate what they have learned. In this type of curriculum, student and teacher roles are deliberately altered. The success of a PBL curriculum depends upon students taking responsibility for their own learning. Students, like professionals in the field, are expected to prioritize what they need to learn ("learning issues"), make choices about the resources they will consult, work collaboratively with colleagues, and organize their time to address the learning issues in sufficient depth. The College provides support and resources including facilitation of tutorial discussions by experienced faculty tutors, expert lectures, structured laboratory exercises, library materials, tutorial rooms available for student use 24 hours a day, and other learning materials. A variety of student support services are also available to assist students with their transition to this new learning mode. Please contact Dr. Kathleen M. Quinlan, Director of the Office of Educational Development, at kmq1@cornell.edu or (607) 253-3767 for further information about this subject. Cornell's DVM Admissions Web Site Home Page http://www.vet.cornell.edu/admissions/ Past Newsletters & Selected Articles All Newsletters http://www.vet.cornell.edu/admissions/newsletters.htm How To Subscribe/Unsubscribe to this Free Newsletter Did you receive this newsletter from a friend
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