Val Beasley, DVM, PhD, Diplomate, American Board of Veterinary Toxicology Professor of Veterinary, Wildlife & Ecolog

1. International OpportunitiesInternational Veterinary Student AssociationCollege of Veterinary MedicineUniversity of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Val Beasley, DVM, PhD, Diplomate, American Board of Veterinary Toxicology Professor of Veterinary, Wildlife & Ecological Toxicology Executive Director, Envirovet Program in Wildlife & Ecosystem Health

2. International OpportunitiesPersonal Suggestions • Represent yourself well. • Represent your country well. • Be candid: • Conditions in the US. • Opportunities & expectations in US. • Weaknesses of US (free speech). • Export your knowledge, enthusiasm & work ethic, not your culture. • Measured impatience can be helpful. • Be humble. • Learn about others, their culture, problems, hopes, needs, dreams, economic & political conditions, perspectives, & constraints. • Offer your expertise. • Help them grow as you grow. • Help solve local & regional problems.

3. Envirovet Summer Institute • W. Evet Baltic, has served about 330 students from 33 countries since inception in 1991. • Funded by foundations, corporations, private donors & course fees ($6,500/student). Expenditures = $10K/student/yr + equivalent in-kind provision of room/board, professional & technical staff. • Classes (25 maximum) are about half veterinary students & half veterinarians. • Eligibility: Minimum of 1 year in a DVM program, a Masters in relevant study, or equivalent experience. • Seven weeks of intensive classroom, laboratory, & field experiences in three locations. • Mid-June to early August. • 2 weeks: “Terrestrial” at White Oak Conservation Center in N. Florida and St. Catherine’s Island Conservation Center off the coast of Georgia. • 2 weeks: Aquatic at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution on Indian River Estuary: coast of Florida. • 3 weeks: South Africa & Swaziland, including the central & northeast regions, Kruger National Park, & the Indian Ocean coast. • See: http://www.cvm.uiuc.edu/envirovet/

4. CVM Center for Zoonoses ResearchSummer Research Training Program • Has provided research experience to 27 students since inception in 2003. • New NIH grant will provide over $50,000/year for up to 5 years to attract highly qualified veterinary students to careers in biomedical research. • Up to 10 U.S.veterinary students/year (@$5K/ea). • Eligibility: Completed 1-2 years toward Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree at a U.S. school. • Three months of summer research training in infectious diseases (not necessarily zoonoses). • Minimum of 1 week at UIUC. • Minimum of 11 additional weeks here or abroad. • Program participants paired with UIUC-CZR faculty researchers for laboratory & field work. • Past participants worked in Uganda & Argentina. • Merck-Merial pays for all travel & subsistence for veterinary students from all over the country to come together for a meeting in July. • See: http://www.cvm.uiuc.edu/news/viewartcl.cfm?id=78

5. Merck-Merial Program • Pending funding (seems very likely). • Most work to be here on campus. • Possibility of some research abroad. • Mentors fund the research supplies & other costs, except….. • Merck-Merial funds stipends of students. • Merck-Merial also pays for all travel & subsistence for veterinary students from all over the country to come together for a meeting in July. • See CZR website (to be posted).

6. USDA – Pan-American Health Assoc. • New program under discussion. • Foot & Mouth Disease (FMD) has been established in South America, but an effort to eradicate it is underway. • US Government may hire veterinary students & provide subsistence to vaccinate animals around infected areas. • Associate Dean for Research, Dr. Ned Hahn is working to develop this program.

7. Geraldine R. Dodge FoundationFrontiers for Veterinary Medicine Program • Started 1996; about 210 students supported to date. • Twenty-three fellowships awarded in 2005. • Fellowships up to $7,000. • Veterinary students from US & Canada encouraged to step outside traditional bounds of veterinary education to explore & bring new solutions to pressing, animal-related issues. • Encourages topics that address companion animals, shelter medicine, conservation medicine & the link between open space, habitat, working land use/land management practices & animal welfare. • Other topics eligible, e.g.: lab animals, zoo animals, human-animal bond, animal-assisted therapies & humane and/or veterinary education. • Funded students are brought together for a symposium the Spring after their summer projects. • World-class speakers (Temple Grandin, Jane Goodall). • International work is ok if exceptionally compelling. • Proposals postmarked by December 16, 2005. • http://www.grdodge.org/frontiers_main.htm

8. International Veterinary Student AssociationMeeting in South Africa • 54th IVSA Symposium • South Africa • December 12 to 19, 2005. • Scholarships possible up to 1000 Euros. • One small animal & one large animal (or mixed) student/country/year. • IVSA – AUSTRIA – skiing vacation • February 4 to 10, 2006 in Bayern, Germany. • € 300, includes accomodation, breakfast, liftcard, fondue – evening, tobogganing, skiing race. • http://www.ivsa.org/

9. WildlifeVets.Com (formerly Afri-Vet) • Drs. Cobus Raath & Ferreira Du Plessis Several Types of Offerings Each Year. • Introduction to Conservation Medicine. • Advanced Course in Conservation Medicine. • 70-day Internship at the Practice. • Specialized Courses in Collaboration with the University of Pretoria, Veterinary faculty of Onderstepoort. • Chemical Immobilization Course. • Assist with a wildlife practice • Immobilization drugs • Darting • Routine care • Disease monitoring, control • Translocations     • http://www.wildlifevets.com/

10. Bateleur Wilderness Safaris • Timbavati Nature Reserve, South Africa – Greater Limpopo Reserve. • 5-day supervised practical course on the African bush. • Worked with Envirovet, International, now a module in course. • Informative bush walks. • Day & night game drives. • Restoration work (erosion site, seepline and veld rehabilitation). • Tracking. • Rifle craft & shooting exercises. • Navigation – compass & map work. • Vegetation – plants, general & medicinal uses. • Bush survival - building a shelter; fire building, finding food & water. • Managing a game reserve. • Geology & soils. • Grassland/bush ecology; fire as a management tool; waterhole impacts. • Elephant research. • Cost R5,700 per student = $839 (excluding 14% VAT) + admission. • Game capture with veterinarians who dart the animals for research purposes at an additional cost. • http://www.ivsa.org/newsd.asp?PrID=21

11. SYMCO 2006Wildlife Utilization in Southern Africa, A Veterinary Perspective • June 23 to July 9, 2006 • Supported by Course Fees & the South African Veterinary Foundation. • Symposium fee of R14 500 ($2,133) includes: • All accommodations, meals, entrance fees. • All in-country travel expenses. • Social program including symposium banquet. • Lecture notes compiled in book. • Symposium memorabilia eg. clothing etc. • The fee does not include: • Airfares to/from South Africa. • Insurance. • This applies to most programs, except Envirovet. • http://www.symco.co.za

12. Wildlife Production, Research, & Medicine • Brazil • Pro-fauna • Gonzalo Barquero BS, MS. • Wildlife production for meat & conservation. • Capybaras, peccaries, river turtles. • Restocking Xavante Indigenous Reserve. • Hunting culture; no longer migratory; overhunted & depleted mammals & birds. • Stocking peccaries. • Teaching wildlife management. • Hunt only the young males; other spp. Recover. • Contact, Darrel Kesler PhD, Department of Animal Sciences, UIUC.

13. Fulbright US Student Program • Grants cover all expenses. • Can do some programs in summers (check with country & collaborating institution). • Get letters of support from collaborators. • Developing professionals may plan their own programs. • Projects may include university coursework, independent library or field research, special projects in the social or life sciences, or a combination. • One focused on urban landscape design in Japan. • Apply through UIUC. • Deadline is one month before Fulbright’s deadline; & there is a campus committee interview; & a rating system. • Competition is finished for 2006. • Next deadline is September, 2006 for 2007. • http://www.fulbrightonline.org/us/program_universities_school.php?id=19 • For most countries, contact Dr. Deborah Ritchie, Assoc Dean of Graduate College. • For the UK, contact Mr. Davis Shug, International Programs, Scholarships.

14. Agriculture 21 - FAO – United Nations • Veterinary diagnostics. • Area-wide integrated pest management • Requires fewer inputs, & pest control is usually more effective & sustainable. • Farmers & supermarkets in Asia. • Globalization & livestock. • Securing the food chain. • Food safety systems face unprecedented challenges arising from rapid urbanization, globalization of food trade & intensive food production techniques. • Good agricultural practices, sustainable agriculture & rural development. • After the tsunami. • Agricultural reconstruction will be a huge task. • Damage to thousands of kilometres of coast & hundreds of small islands. • Water, food & ecosystems in Africa • Agriculture & ecosystems are inherently linked: both use same resources & are based on same biological processes. • Avian influenza in Asia. • http://www.fao.org/ag/

15. UIUC International Programs & Studies & the Study Abroad Office • Elective credit required. • Some language requirements may apply. • Courses at schools on different semester schedules. • Volunteer work. • Dr. Pijanowski is very supportive. • There is a course rubric for CVM students. • Tuition plus program fee. • Office of Scholarships for International Study assists in applying for regionally or nationally competitive study abroad scholarships. • Provide your application materials/essays to the Office, & then schedule an appointment to discuss your draft. • Many applications due > 1year before studying abroad. • START EARLY!! • Contact person is Erika Ryser. • First check web page & Resource Room. • http://www.ips.uiuc.edu/sao/ • Go to Summer Programs web page.

16. Go Independent/Unconventional • United Nations • United Nations Environmental Program. • World Health Association. • United States Government Student Programs • USDA, US EPA (EPA programs in Germany) • Foundations. • Corporate. • Pharmaceutical Industry. • Biological Industry (vaccines). • Chemical Industry. • Agricultural Industry. • Timber/Lumber Industry. • Universities. • Search research project topics, summer jobs. • Veterinary schools. • Medical schools. • Public health schools. • Pharmacy schools. • Biology departments. • Ecology departments.

17. Envirovet Regional Programs • Volunteer work from here? • Concepts, contacts, grant applications. • Envirovet Baltic – Baltic University Programme Collaboration • Courses & MS in Sustainable Agriculture & Ecosystem Health • Borje Gustafsson, Torsten Mörner. • Envirovet Asia • Ravi Gooneratne, Karn Lekagul. • Envirovet Anglophone Africa • Jan Myburgh, Gerry Swan, Cobus Raath, George Owiti. • Envirovet Middle East • Alan Shlosberg, Eve Levin, Anne Fairbrother, Mo Salman. • Envirovet Amazonia • Gonzalo Barquero, Christina Whiteman, Rural University of the Amazon. • Envirovet Polar • Todd O’Hara, Kathrine Ryeng.

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