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Food
Animal Scholars Program Objectives
- To provide a clear academic pathway for students desiring a
veterinary career in food animal agriculture.
- To provide admission
to the CVM for up to six Food Animal Scholars each year,
provided they meet minimum standards for acceptance
established by the Admissions Committee.
- To devise a plan of
academic work, experience, and mentoring for Food Animal
Scholars which encompasses undergraduate and veterinary
medical education and meets specific needs of animal
agriculture.
- To provide a
continuous supply of new veterinary graduates with skills,
experience and expertise with Food Animal Species comparable
to a DVM with one year of clinical experience. These new
graduates will immediately be able to provide valuable service
to modern animal agriculture and will be mentally prepared to
continually grow and improve as scientific health
professionals.
- To continually
promote and increase the visibility of the Food Animal
Scholars and the Food Animal Scholars Program.
Examples of
professional veterinary service to animal agriculture include
private food animal practitioners, mixed animal
private practitioners (with at least half of the practice being
with food animals/animal agriculture), veterinarians working in
corporate agribusiness, technical service veterinarians working
with animal health industries, pathologists working in
diagnostic laboratories, food animal veterinarians on university
faculties, and veterinarians in public practice such as
veterinary medical officers employed by state or federal
governments.
Definitions
The "Food Animal Scholars Pool" for each
year refers to the undergraduates who have been selected to be
admitted to the College of Veterinary Medicine following
completion of their undergraduate degree (if they have met the
criteria outlined below and have remained in the pool).
Two Pools will exist during spring semester: one for students
entering the CVM that calendar year and one for students
entering the CVM the next calendar year (which is the pool of
students selected from the November applications immediately
preceeding the spring semester).
"CVM Food Animal Scholars"
refers to the students who have been admitted to the College of
Veterinary Medicine from the Food Animal Scholars Pool.
Process
Up to six students and two
alternates will be chosen each year to enter the Food Animal
Scholars Pool. Eligible students will be those who are majoring
in Animal Science or Poultry Science and who will be completing
their B.S. degree 2 or 3 full semesters following the time of
application (fall or spring semesters; does not count summer
school). This is normally first-semester juniors, but
double-majors or transfer students who still have 2 or 3 full
semesters remaining and are classified as upperclassmen are
eligible to apply. Students in an accelerated
undergraduate program are eligible to apply in the fall when
they have 2 or 3 full semesters remaining. Students should
meet the minimum academic standards for entry to the College of
Veterinary Medicine for coursework completed to date at the time
of application. The application deadline is in
mid-November (see application link at the bottom of this web
page).
Each year, preference will be given to have at least one
swine-focused scholar and at least one poultry-focused scholar.
Beyond this, there is no overall species or departmental quota
for Food Animal Scholars Pool membership.
The goal is to create
Food Animal Scholars Pools composed of excellent students with a
sincere interest in animal agriculture while maintaining
flexibility for them to explore career options. Up to six
students from the Food Animal Scholars Pool will be admitted to
the appropriate class entering the CVM following successful
completion of all requirements and attainment of required
standards. If the Food Animal Scholars Pool does not
contain six qualified students, a lesser number will be
admitted. Once admitted, a student will be designated as a
"CVM Food Animal Scholar" for the year of graduation from the
CVM.
The Food Animal
Scholars Steering & Mentoring Committee,
composed of faculty members from the N.C. State University's
Departments of Animal Science (College of Agriculture and Life
Sciences), Poultry Science (College of Agriculture and Life
Sciences), Population Health and Pathobiology (College of
Veterinary Medicine), and one Committee member from North
Carolina A&T University, will select and annually review the
members of each Food Animal Scholars Pool. See the current
application (linked to at the bottom
of this web page) for the most current list of Steering &
Mentoring Committee members.
Each student selected
to join the Food Animal Scholars Pool will be assigned two
Faculty Mentors, one from either the Department of Animal
Science or Poultry Science, and one from the Department of
Population Health and Pathobiology. These two Faculty
Mentors will work closely with the students to advise them,
monitor their progress and commitment, and facilitate their
additional training opportunities, such as summer jobs and
experiences. Faculty Mentors may be members of the Steering and
Mentoring Committee, but this is not a requirement. The
mentor from the student's undergraduate department may or may
not be the same person as the student's undergraduate advisor.
The undergraduate faculty co-chair of the Steering and Mentoring
Committee assigns the undergraduate mentor, and the committee
co-chair from the College of Veterinary Medicine assigns the CVM
mentor. This happens early in the spring semester during
the academic year the student is admitted to the Food Animal
Scholars Pool.
During his or her
education, each student in the Food Animal Scholars Pools should
demonstrate a clear, abiding interest in animal
agriculture. Undergraduate students will complete at least
one food animal management/production course as part of their
curriculum (Beef Management, Swine Management, Dairy Management,
Small Ruminant Management, Turkey Production, and/or Broiler
Production). Students in the pool will also complete a
summer internship working in a food animal production or
research setting as approved by the student's mentors.
Members of the existing
Food Animal Scholars Pools will be re-evaluated at the end of
each semester, with membership changes made by the Steering
Committee if necessary. Students in each Scholars Pool who
do not meet minimum academic standards for entry to the College
of Veterinary Medicine (for N.C. residents, this is currently
3.3 GPA last 45 semester hours, 3.0 GPA overall, and 3.3 in the
required courses; for non-residents, it is 3.4 in all three
categories), are not making progress toward completion of a
degree, or who do not continue to demonstrate a sincere interest
in supporting animal agriculture may be replaced with alternates
or other suitable students (by application) who are at the same
stage of their training.
Completion of the
degree the student is pursuing is required for entry into the
College of Veterinary Medicine under the Food Animal Scholars
Program, and students are expected to have an approved Plan of
Study showing how this will be accomplished. In some cases
it may be necessary to have one or two courses from the College
of Veterinary Medicine transfer back to complete an
undergraduate degree, which is acceptable if it is part of the
approved Plan of Study. Each student in the Food Animal
Scholars pool is required to apply to the College of Veterinary
Medicine (including submitting reference letters and GRE scores)
and must meet the minimum criteria for entrance.
Each CVM Food Animal
Scholar beginning the DVM curriculum will be required to enroll
in a Food Animal Focus Area and to submit a formal plan of study
for their four-year DVM curriculum under the supervision of
their faculty Mentors. This plan will specify Selectives,
Electives, summer work experiences, externships, special
projects, and Senior Rotations.
CVM Food Animal
Scholars (who are in the DVM curriculum) will lose the Food
Animal Scholars designation if, in the judgment of the Steering
Committee, they do not continue to demonstrate a sincere
interest in professional service to animal agriculture. In
such a case, any student loans made on the basis of CVM Food
Animal Scholar status should be repaid. Students who
complete their DVM degree as Food Animal Scholars will have
received the benefit provided by years of mentoring,
opportunities, and experiences provided by the Food Animal
Scholars Program.
Summer Internships
Application for Admission to the Food
Animal Scholars Pool
Related Links at
North Carolina State University:
Animal
Science
Department Undergraduate Student Page
- Poultry
Science Department
- Population
Health and Pathobiology Department at the CVM
- College of
Veterinary Medicine
- College
of Agriculture and Life Sciences
- North Carolina
State University
Related Links at North Carolina
Agricultural and Technical State University:
- North
Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
(A&T)
- NC
A&T Animal Sciences Department
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