UK charity vets get a US perspective on shelter medicine.
Shelter medicine is very much a recognised discipline within veterinary medicine in the USA, with increasing numbers of veterinary students receiving specific teaching in the field. Delegates at the second meeting of the Association of Charity Vets, which was held at Nottingham veterinary school in November last year, learned more about the US approach to this evolving field.
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