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    [edit] Older discussion

    The comparison to pediatric medicine was in fact quite apt: the patient can't speak, and the doctor must get any information about symptoms from the adult responsible for the patients. Pediatric human doses and animal doses are also similar, as they are based on body weight, which is not generally the case in adult medicine. --- Someone else 22:25 22 May 2003 (UTC)

    Hi Guanaco, Please do not remove large chunks of information from an article without discussing why. If you think that a list of schools of veterinary medicine is inappropriate, please discuss this here first. Or you could have started a new article Schools Of Veterinary Medicine --- Cheers, Jurriaan 08:52, 10 Apr 2004 (UTC)

    [edit] New templates

    I created and installed new templates to Veterinary Practitioners and Veterinary Specialties. Thier are two articles in the Veterinary Specialties section that have yet to be created. Have fun with them if you want to create them. --Admiral Roo 03:08, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

    [edit] Veterinary Informatics

    Given that veterinary informatics has it's own article, would anyone mind if we removed this section from this article? Veterinary Informatics is much more about practice management than it is about medicine. Edwardian 3 July 2005 04:22 (UTC)

    • I have removed the above section which contained the following: "Veterinary informatics is the application of information technology to healthcare. Most vet clinics now utilize software for practice management systems to control scheduling and billing of clients, tracking of inventory and automation of lab results. Additionally, many clinics are working towards becoming computerized for electronic patient records." A link to veterinary informatics is contained within the article. Edwardian 05:21, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

    [edit] Applicants: veterinary school vs. medical school

    The article currently states: "Admission into veterinary medical school is competitive. According to the US Department of Labor, 1 in 3 applicants was accepted into a veterinary program in 2002. (Compare this with human medical school statistics of 1 in 2 applicants accepted, keep in mind however that human medical school acceptances have an average GPA of 3.7 and the acceptance rate per medical school is lower than that of vet schools)." The portion in bold was recently added without reference or citation.

    1. The DOL reference regarding veterinary applicants can be found here: [1].
    2. Regarding veterinary schools: The lastest report from the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges indicates 2,576 matriculants (mean GPA 3.53)[2][3] - no information on number of total applicants. Another website reported 6,695 applicants (mean GPA 3.42), 2,301 matriculants (mean GPA 3.62)[4] - these are probably 1999 figures. The same website indicated that each applicant files 3.65 applications and veterinary schools receive 10.62 applications per position.
    3. Regarding medical schools: The latest report from the Association of American Medical Colleges indicates 35,735 applicants (mean GPA 3.47), 17,662 accepted, 16,648 matriculants (mean GPA 3.62)[5][6].

    I found no data to support the recently added assertions that "human medical school acceptances have an average GPA of 3.7" or that "the acceptance rate per medical school is lower than that of vet schools". It does appear that those applying to and entering medical school do have a slightly higher GPA, but that admissions into veterinary school are more competitive (as the article stated in its previous incarnation). Edwardian 06:39, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

    Could someone please make the discussion about comparing medical vs. veterinary school admissions more concise? I have lived in two states, Michigan, and California. In both there were many medical schools and only one veterinary school. Doesn't this fact alone mean that vet schools admissions are more difficult? Is this the result of boards of medicine limiting the numbers?

    I once remarked to my dentist that I was considering relocating to California as had one of my colleagues had done, submitting her nursing school transcripts, and board scores, (nationally administered, and when I was licensed passing score was 350--except California and New York where it was 450), and being licensed under most state nursing boards' reciprocity policy. My dentist remarked that he could not move to California, since the board of dentistry in that state decided that there were too many dentists there already.--W8IMP 15:05, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

    [edit] Income?

    If we are comparing human vs. animal physicians, shouldn't there be some comparison of the cost of their educations (including the amount of government subsidies at the colleges) and relative incomes?--W8IMP 15:05, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

    [edit] UK Schools

    Why does the list of UK vet schools warrant placement on this page while all the others are relegated to Schools of veterinary medicine? 24.210.140.97 11:26, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

    I've moved it to veterinary school. As for why, simply because that's where the person who decided to add the info decided to put it. See Wikipedia:Who writes Wikipedia. --Quiddity 18:57, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

    [edit] Template:Veterinary medicine overhaul

    I've overhauled Template:Veterinary medicine (formerly {{Veterinary Practitioners}}) to include all the related "See also" links, from various veterinary articles. Please feel free to correct/improve anything in it (ordering, subheaders, additions, etc), and add it to appropriate articles. Thanks. --Quiddity 18:57, 13 May 2007 (UTC)