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Winter 2008

Teaching the Next Generation

It has been a tradition of the Veterinary Profession that contributing to the education of the next generation of veterinarians is an important role in our working life. Gladesville Veterinary Hospital has been proud of their input in this regard over many years and a lot of our clients will have met some of these undergraduate students participating during consultations.

 

Gladesville’s efforts in this regard were recognised by the Veterinary Faculty of the University of Sydney in 2007 when we given an award as the Small Animal Partner Practice of the Year. Partner Practices are selected by the University as being suitable to help ensure a high quality veterinary experience for their students. So far this year we have already again hosted several students from the University of Sydney but have for the first time had a junior colleague from Charles Sturt University’s new Wagga based veterinary school.

 

For some years now we have also offered part-time weekend work to veterinary students as nursing staff and receptionists and many of you may have come across Karim, our current student, if you have been in on a Saturday or Sunday in the last 12-18 months.

 

Pam Short has expanded her role in continuing education for veterinarians with an interest in acupuncture and in the last three months has been lecturing and examining people who have come from all over Australia and South East Asia to participate in this course. It seems a bit strange in a way that Pam is teaching Asian veterinarians how to use acupuncture in animals.

 

After a break of several years, Max Zuber has again taken on the role of coordinating and delivering the bulk of the orthopaedic surgery lecture course at the Vet Faculty at University of Sydney as well as his usual role of developing IT based teaching resources in clinical subjects and running tutorials for final year students in surgery.

 

Max is also supervising an Honours student at Sydney in a project investigating outcomes of dogs who have undergone limb amputation and, together with Chris Tan, is mentoring another veterinarian preparing for an upcoming postgraduate examination in surgery.

 

On a different note, in March this year, Max travelled to South Africa where he represented the University of Sydney in discussions with the South African government on the potential for bringing black South African Students to Australia to study veterinary science.

 

In future articles we will go on to explain a little of our in- house training of younger veterinarians which has in the last few years led to some of our veterinarians moving on to specialist training positions in universities both here and in the USA.

 

Max