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Updated 1/4/08

VEM 5506 International Veterinary Medicine - Abroad
Yucatan
15-22 March 2008

Course objectives
The main objective of this study abroad program is to expose veterinary students to important health issues affecting people and animals in rural communities in Yucatan.

Specific objectives are:
1. To assist the Department of Health in the community of Tzucacab in vaccination efforts against rabies in dogs and cats.
2. To assist in animal control efforts (spay-neuter clinic) in dogs and cats.
3. Identify common GI parasites in dogs.
4. To participate in an epidemiologic study to examine the relationship between GI parasites in dogs, housing conditions, demographic factors and infant health/development.

Program Description
This is an elective course offered in Yucatan, Mexico (1 credit; S/U). The course will be delivered as detailed in the course syllabus (below). This course will be offered in English. Proficiency in Spanish is not required.

Who can register in this course? Freshman, sophomore, junior & senior DVM students

There is funding available through the UF Student Financial Aid Office.

To learn more, please e-mail Katie Henry at HenryK@vetmed.ufl.edu or Jorge Hernandez at HernandezJ@vetmed.ufl.edu with questions.

Updated 1/28/08

Last chance for students to sign up for an experience of a lifetime.  Helping the poor and underserved in:

COSTA RICA, NICARAGUA, PANAMA, BELIZE, and MEXICO

ISL is sending out almost 70 teams to eight countries this summer and has opening for students to participate on only about a dozen that aren’t staffed. Please ask your students to review the attached summer teams information bulletin and go to www.ISLonline.org for schedules and applications instructions.  Thanks to our students helping us staff these teams we estimate we’ll be serving approximately 35,000 of the underserved with varying levels of health care thanks for the partnership!  More info at www.ISLonline.org.

ISL sends medical/dent/opt/public health/PT/vet/pharmaceutical teams to countries in Latin America, Central America, and Africa.  We include pre-health students on our teams as a way of preparing the next generation of international medical care-givers.  Students receive supervised hands-on experience, health related seminars, and financial sponsorship.

Listings of university, professional, and student references available upon request.  Over a 12 year period we’ve fielded over three hundred teams and annually provide health care for 15,000 of the underserved.

Please consider placing the attached information on your list serve for pre-health students and forwarding to any appropriate pre-health student organizations.  Professional program references available upon request.