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Cornell University Hospital for Animals
With a history stretching back to the earliest days of the university, this latest hospital facility enables the faculty, students and staff of Cornell University Hospital for Animals to follow in a long tradition of excellence in patient care. The current hospital was opened in the spring of 1996, and is regarded as one of the finest veterinary teaching hospitals in North America. With three inpatient facilities -- Companion Animal Hospital, Equine Hospital and Farm Animal Hospital -- more than 16,500 dogs and cats, 2,500 horses, 1,000 farm animals, and 1,000 wildlife and exotic species visited the hospital last year. The hospital's Ambulatory and Production Medicine Service staff and students make about 4000 visits a year to 400 farms in the Ithaca area, treating 40,000 farm animals. The hospital staff includes more than 70 veterinarians, 200 veterinary medicine students, and more than 130 licensed veterinary technicians and other support staff. The hospital's specialties are organized by each division: |
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Veterinary medical school is a four-year program, completed after students have received undergraduate degrees. Veterinary students begin a year-and-one-half of clinical rotations, in which they spend between 2 to 6 weeks in clinical specialties, in the middle of their third year of veterinary medical school. Each class has about 80 students. In addition, each year Cornell University Hospital for Animals hosts more than 150 students and faculty from veterinary colleges around the world. |
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The mission of Cornell University Hospital for Animals is to provide leadership in patient care, education, and clinical investigation and scientific innovation.