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Georgia Veterinary Medicine College Starts Outreach Program
In a move to provide direct
service and assistance to
livestock growers and other
animal owners in Georgia, the
University of Georgia College
of Veterinary Medicine is
implementing an extensive
outreach program and includ
es establishment of a new
veterinary medical experiment
station and a reorganization of
the college.
An associate dean for ser
vices has been appointed in the
college to coordinate the
stepped up extension thrust and
to act as a liaison with livestock
producers. Among the vehicles
the college plans to use to reach
animal owners are short
courses, a newsletter, an
annual “leaders’ conference,”
improved relations with
livestock interest groups and
citizens’ panels to advise the
college.
A major goal of the new
program will be providing
veterinary services to parts of
Georgia that do not have such
services. This will be done
primarily by encouraging vet
college graduates to set up
practice in rural areas with
large or developing livestock
populations.
Announcing the outreach
program to the Board of
Regents, vet college Dean
Richard B. Talbot said the
college’s faculty and ad
ministration have assumed
that the extension veterinary
department of the university’s
Cooperative Extension Service
should be responsible for
veterinary extension work
around the state.
“It would now appear that
the (extension service)
program should be augmented
by a direct effort by the College
of Veterinary Medicine,”
Talbot said. “The state of
Georgia is in need of the direct
and aggressive extension of the
college into the societal
mainstream of the state.”
The new experiment station,
to be located in Athens, will
emphasize research on
domestic animal diseases. In
recent years, Talbot said,
veterinary schools have con
centrated heavily on human
health research, mainly
because money for animal
disease study had fallen off.
Research at the new station
“will in no way diminish the
existing program of support
from human health related
agencies, but will serve to bring
the total research effort of the
veterinary college in more
desirable balance,” the dean
said.
Dr. Lester Crawford,
assistant professor of phar
macology, is the new associate
dean for services. He will be
responsible for such extension
efforts as continuing education,
diagnostic assistance service
and liaison with veterinary
associations.
Talbot said that as a result of
a reorganization, four new
departments have been created
in the college to “remove
certain administrative and
tactical barriers to the
initiation of a program of
outreach to livestock
producers.”
The effort to provide
veterinary services in areas
where none now exist began in
June with an “externship”
program under which each
fourth-year vet college student
must spend two to four months
working in an established
veterinary medical practice.
“It is envisioned that the
externship program will
provide a continuing link to
rural Georgia that should
precipitate an increase in
numbers of graduates setting
up practices in communities
with populations of less than
10,000,” Talbot said.
For the past two years, he
added, 53 per cent of the
students accepted to the vet
college have come from towns
with a population of less than
10,000. The college hopes to
encourage some of these
students to return to the rural
communities where the need
for veterinary services is
greatest, he said.
The college will make a
survey of Georgia counties that
have no practicing
veterinarians and publish the
results in several professional
magazines. Loan and
scholarship incentives will be
sought from the regents for
students willing to practice in
rural areas.,
The college will also try to
establish, through the Georgia
Veterinary Medical
Association, intermittent
veterinary services in counties
where none exists. Talbot said
college personnel will provide
such essential services as mass
vaccinations and health
examinations.
The short courses, for
livestock producers and their
veterinarians, will begin in
early 1974 and will be held In
each congressional district.
Directed by Talbot, they will
cover animal health and
utilization of veterinary
medical services and include a
presentation of veterinary
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