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Adventures in Veterinary Medicine
Location: Massachusetts
Program Description:
Adventures in Veterinary Medicine is an exciting, stimulating, fun way to spend two weeks learning about being a vet. You'll visit our large and small animal hospitals and wildlife clinic. Learn about keeping pets healthy. And you'll take part in lively discussions about some of the most important animal-related issues that face veterinarians today, like ethics, emerging diseases, & conservation.
Overall rating:
Average: 5 (1 vote)
Host: Tufts University, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
Qualifications: Students currently in grades 9 through 12. Sessions grouped by grade level.
Program Dates / Length: Two weeks.
Housing: Housing available for two of the sessions for older students. A third session is for day students only.
Cost / Availability of Financial Aid: $2,735 for residential sessions for students grades 10-12. Includes tuition, room and board, fees and activities. $1,855 for commuter session (session 9) - includes tuition, lunches, all program expenses other than housing.
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Mailing Address:
Adventures in Veterinary Medicine
Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
200 Westboro Road
North Grafton, MA 01536
Phone: 508-839-7962
E-mail: avm@tufts.edu
Website: www.tufts.edu/vet/avm
Reviews:
"Our daughter attended Adventures in Veterinary Medicine after finishing her sophomore year during summer 2007. She LOVED it. The program was extremely well planned and implemented. The students were housed in new air conditioned dormitories with washers & dryers in them. The food was good, the teachers were great. She got to observe three surgeries one was a horse eye surgery and she actually got to look into the microscope at the horse’s eye during surgery. She observed two dog surgeries and didn’t even flinch. She got to put on a glove and put her hand down into a cow’s stomach via a port where they collect stomach enzymes for other cows that are sick. They taught her how to “tip a sheep” to relax it for an exam, they taught her how to do an exam on a ferret. Every minute was planned and supervised. On the weekends they did fun supervised sightseeing in the Boston area. They had animal choices that ranged from birds, ferrets, sheep, dogs & cats, cows, horses, exotic animals you name it. They did a project they presented to the parents at the end of the program and when she came home they created an AVM Facebook community eager to communicate with her and continue the relationships that begin there. I highly recommend the program to any student who is considering going into veterinary medicine. It was wonderful!"
Parent, 2007