During their fourth year at Purdue University’s School
of Veterinary Medicine, students finally get to work
with real patients, rotating among several services for
two-and-a-half to five weeks on each. As with
cardiology, internal medicine, oncology and others,
the ophthalmology service at Purdue is an opportunity
for future veterinarians to learn more about specialties
they had only heard of in lectures or read in
textbooks. Most students will go into general medicine
and not specialize in anything, but they will still need
to know at least basic information about each area
when they are doctors and seeing their own patients.
For vet students in Purdue's Class of 2003, their brief
time working in ophthalmology allowed them to
literally look into the eyes of what, at its core, their
chosen professional is about.
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