Will all VMRCVM students become trained in the Banfield “method”?
Specifics regarding how students will be trained in the new facility are still being considered by the faculty. It is important to stress that the College will not relinquish the academic integrity of the educational experience for our students in order to establish a cooperative agreement with Banfield. All VMRCVM students will be required to rotate through the Community Practice clerkship, whether the clerkship is housed in the Veterinary Teaching Hospital or at the New River Valley hospital. Our students would be able to become familiar with Banfield’s diagnostic and therapeutic protocols during this clerkship experience and become exposed to how this corporation believes primary care veterinary medicine should be practiced, just as our students learn other methods from practitioners when they engage in private practice clerkships. The college believes that corporate veterinary medicine is a model that will continue to grow and become a part of how veterinary clinical care is delive
