https://today.tamu.edu/2020/04/16/texas-am-cvms-22-program-in-texas-panhandle-receives-american-veterinary-medical-association-approval/
Texas A&M CVM's 2+2 Program In Texas Panhandle Receives American Veterinary Medical Association Approval
The new program is designed to increase the number of rural and food animal veterinarians in Texas.
Texas A&M CVM's 2+2 Program In Texas Panhandle Receives American Veterinary Medical Association Approval
The new program is designed to increase the number of rural and food animal veterinarians in Texas.
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With this approval, the CVM has permission to implement the 2+2 program through its Veterinary Education, Research & Outreach (VERO) program on West Texas A&M University's (WT) campus. This means that additional veterinary students will be able to complete the first two years of their four-year veterinary curriculum in Canyon, Texas.
"The 2+2 program helps fulfill a 10-year goal to increase large animal veterinary medicine in the Texas Panhandle," said Texas A&M University System (TAMUS) Chancellor John Sharp. "It makes West Texas A&M the gateway to one of the best veterinary schools in the nation."
"We are extremely excited that our 2+2 program has been approved by the AVMA COE," said Dr. Eleanor M. Green, the Carl B. King Dean of Veterinary Medicine at Texas A&M. "This is a benchmark step that puts Texas A&M and WT one step closer to fulfilling a plan we have been working on for over a decade now.
"Through our VERO program, Texas A&M, the CVM and WT are fulfilling a promise we made to the citizens of Texas to further address the need for rural and food animal veterinarians, needs that affect our food supply, the State of Texas economy and citizens of the Texas Panhandle, as well as rural communities across the state," she said.
"It also supports our Texas youth who have aspirations for careers in veterinary medicine. While the launch of the VERO program has already tripled the number applicants from WT being admitted to the CVM's veterinary curriculum, this approval brings us one step closer to being able to admit even more students from WT and the Texas Panhandle region who can then, close to home, receive an education from one of the best veterinary schools in the nation," Green said. "We anticipate that many of these veterinary graduates will choose to return home to serve their hometown communities."
Through the 2+2 program, the first cohort of up to 18 Texas A&M first-year veterinary students will begin their Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) education at the VERO facility in fall 2021.
For more information on the 2+2 program and the CVM's VERO initiative, visit the VERO webpage.