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On March 8, 2010 an e-mail message to Dean Joan Hendricks, prominent One Health supporter/advocate at the University of Pennsylvania school of veterinary medicine in Philadelpia, Pennsylvania (USA) from John Trumper, MD, a longstanding valued One Health supporter in the state of Vermont modestly advised Dr. Hendricks of his remarkable One Health activities this past year.

Dr. Trumper told Dr. Hendricks:
“It's been a year since you helped us launch our One Health Initiative up here, and I promised then to give you some follow up.

We have been concentrating on communicating at the practitioner level of physicians and [veterinarians]. At the state society level, there was a brief One Health Initiative (OHI) presentation at the State Medical Society meeting last fall. I attended the State Veterinary Society meeting, and we now include a veterinarian presenter at the Academy of Pediatrics spring meeting and [veterinarians] are invited to all our membership meetings.

To help at the local community level, we formed a joint committee that meets every 2 months or so and has developed a power point presentation on OHI that [veterinarians] can use at local hospital presentations to physicians. There have been just two talks by [veterinarians] at local hospitals so far, with two more scheduled in April. Subjects have included: "Animal Bites from the Perpetrators Point of View", "People, Pets, & Parasites," and The Raw Milk Sale Debate. We have a request for a speaker on The Ididerad, and on pet obesity and childhood obesity; a connection?

The local veterinarians are invited to all these local hospital presentations and so far attendance by both groups has been gratifying. So, we have a long way to go, but our modest plans of starting at the local level, thanks to your help, are underway.”

Note: The One Health team of Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP, Bruce Kaplan, DVM, Thomas P. Monath, MD and Jack Woodall, PhD strongly endorses Dr. Trumper’s model activities and hope that other visionary physicians nationally and internationally will consider following suit.

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"Future Challenges in Veterinary Medicine"
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In summer 2010, IVSA Denmark will be hosting the 59th annual Summer Congress.

It’s the third IVSA congress in Denmark, since the association was founded here in 1951.

Application for the congress opens March 1st on congress homepage www.ivsadenmark.dk

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Degree: Medico Veterinario (MV)
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Website: www.universitas.edu.br

The degree in Veterinary Medicine at University should provide general training in the exercise of the profession, being able to understand and translate the needs of the population in different specific fields of expertise: Animal Health and Veterinary Clinic, Hygiene and Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Public Health and Inspection of Animal Products, Animal Science, Production and Animal Reproduction Technology, Animal Products, Ecology and Environmental Protection.

Modality: BA
Duration: 5 years - 10 semesters
Period Day
Number of seats: 50

The veterinarian may act in different areas:
- Medical practice of domestic and wild animals in private clinics, veterinary hospitals, zoos, rehabilitation centers and rural areas;
- Dominates knowledge of technology to perform inspection of animal products in shops and stores;
- Coordinates and manages farms, poultry farms and animal production;
- Know the techniques of animal breeding procedures to perform artificial insemination and embryo transfer;
- Promotes, manages and has sales of veterinary drugs and vaccines in the commercial area;
- Carries out extension activities in rural properties;
- Conducts research in private and public institutions;
- Acts in teaching in private educational institutions, public and federal
- Implementing public health measures in cities to combat the diseases transmissible to humans.

The veterinarian has room in their professional practice, the significant contribution of increased food production through genetic improvement of livestock, the biotech applied for breeding and maintaining high standards of animal health, or in consequences of its action on health, in which interdisciplinary teams in health surveillance and epidemiological control of zoonoses, in planning, management and structuring of public health campaigns and livestock enterprises in the production of infectious immunobiological, the preservation of ecosystems and biodiversity, scientific research and dissemination of technology in agricultural development programs in the diagnosis of food of animal origin and also in medical and surgical care, especially the pet, where the trader carries relevant fraction and stiffness of the animals and the orientation of their owners.

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