Talk:Veterinary education

Vet school
Not every vet school the world grants a DVM degree. The article is too US centric. This article is on Vet school in general. I feel that all degrees should be listed, or none. If you want to list further information about US training, please create a subheading.

Also, All NZ vet schools, and most Australian Vet schools are AVMA accredited in the US; which means yes they do have similar standards of accreditation otherwise they wouldn't be approved by the AVMA. Jwri7474 (talk) 01:21, 4 August 2008 (UTC)


 * The federal governments of Australia and New Zealand accredit veterinary schools in those countries. AVMA accreditation is on top of that state accreditation. Only in the United States is AVMA accreditation equated ("deemed" under U.S. federal law) with accreditation. So no, the accreditation systems in these countries are not equal.  In Australia, New Zealand, U.K. and other countries to which the AVMA has extended its accreditation system, the veterinary schools see AVMA accreditation as a sort of "badge of honor" or competitive edge.

I didn't say the accreditation process was the same. I said that the standards required for accredtation were the same, which they are, otherwise these schools would not be approved to AVMA if they were not equal to AVMA. Jwri7474 (talk) 04:33, 4 August 2008 (UTC)


 * The article clearly notes that many veterinary schools do not award the DVM, provides numerous citations to the kind of other degrees non-U.S. schools offer, and cites and provides a link to a document which shows what degrees each school offers. If you wish to re-create this list, feel free to do so in a separate list.  I would argue that there are not citations to this information, which violates Wikipedia's citation policy, and that listing every single degree offered by every school violates Wikipedia's rule against indiscriminate collections of information.  Wikipedia is not an "all or nothing" encyclopedia.  It's an encyclopedia, which means articles should use examples. - Tim1965 (talk) 02:18, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Yes, but why even list the DVM in that case? If 60% of the worlds vet schools do not offer this degree, then why should it be the one listed in the main title of the article? Again, this is POV pushing and US centric. Jwri7474 (talk) 04:33, 4 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Because 60 percent of the world is developing, not developed, and would love to upgrade their vet schools to offer the DVM (or BVSc.). The Afghan school, for example, is nothing more than a cut-and-sew school, and they know it and dislike it and wish they had the ability to offer a DVM. The Iraqi schools are the same. I was told two weeks ago (after the RIMSA 15 meeting of health ministers in Rio) that 90 percent of the vet schools in Brazil offer such low-grade education that the government wants to merely put them out of business rather than get them to improve the quality of education their provide. The Brazilian government wants all vet schools to offer the DVM. The Chinese government offers a degree which looks equivalent to the DVM, but which isn't; the level of education is so low that most doctors don't even know to deliver vaccines (and the Chinese government just passed a law forcing them to).
 * This is not a matter of being U.S.-centric. Most veterinarians worldwide want to have the DVM (or equivalent post-graduate professional degree). That 60 percent of schools don't offer it is not being non-global in perspective, it's acknowledging that 60 percent of schools are in developing countries which, sadly, don't have the money to offer the degree. Your suggestion that this is being non-global is like saying "good nutrition is non-global because a third of all human beings suffer from starvation." - Tim1965 (talk) 13:20, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

What about all of the 1st world developed british commonwealth countries that offer a BVSc or similar equivalent DVM degree? Jwri7474 (talk) 01:14, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Cost of vet school
I took out this section:

"In the United States, the average tuition was US$15,676 for residents in the 2006-2007 school year, and $28,861 a year for non-residents. Average cost during the same period of fees was $3,482 (residents) and $4,452 (non-residents), room and board $8,964 (residents and non-residents), and books and equipment $2,043 (residents and non-residents). In Canada during the same time period, average resident tuition was C$5,651 and average non-resident tuition $32,942. Resident and non-resident fees were C$719, resident and non-resident room and board C$6,493, and resident and non-resident books and equipment C$1,712."

These figures are nine years out-of-date plus it's irrelevant information. Rissa, Guild of Copy Editors (talk) 01:22, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

Veterin
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