2024 Summer VEM5322 Shelter Medicine (aka Miami Shelter Camp) Application
"Miami Shelter Camp" week at Miami-Dade Animal Services (VEM5322 Shelter Medicine) is an immersive week-long hands-on experience at a busy Florida animal shelter. Students prepare ahead with 2 weeks of online training and study of the shelter's protocols and animal data. This course is designed for UF rising 2nd-year vet students.

The course introduces students to the concepts utilized by successful shelter veterinarians to ensure the animals in their care remain healthy both physically and emotionally. Students will work alongside shelter veterinarians, staff, and leadership to gain first-hand experience in shelter operations, infectious disease control, forensics, behavior, patient care, heartworm treatment, surgery, population management, leadership, animal social services, veterinary care in under-served communities, and professional well-being.

Please review the course syllabus and then complete this application about your experience with spay/neuter and shelter medicine. You can get a sense of what the week at the shelter is like from this Kudoboard thank you card that the class prepared for the shelter vets and staff that helped in the course last year.

This application is due by April 4, 2024 and students will be notified by April 15, 2024. The course is limited to 14 students. If there are more than 14 qualified applicants, students enrolled in the Shelter Medicine Certificate Program will be enrolled first, followed by non-certificate students in the order of application date.

Course schedule:
  • 7/8/24: Online modules open
  • 7/21/23: Travel to Miami
  • 7/22/24 - 7/26/24: Miami Shelter Camp activities
  • 7/28/24: Travel back to Gainesville
  • Bonus opportunity: Stay an extra day to participate in a TNR clinic at the shelter for community cats on 7/28/24 and travel back on 7/29/24
Logistics:
  • Travel (ride in vans from the vet school) and lodging (shared hotel rooms) will be provided by the Shelter Medicine Program.
  • Students can also meet us in Miami
  • One group dinner will be provided. Students will have other meals on their own.
  • A course co-requisite is concurrent enrollment in VEM5321 Integrating Veterinary medicine with Shelter Systems
Learn more about summer and fall Shelter Medicine course schedules at https://sheltermedicine.vetmed.ufl.edu/2024/03/21/2024-courses/

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Miami-Dade Animal Services
UFID Number *
Last Name *
First Name *
Alternate (non UF) email *
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Veterinary school class or affiliation *
If "other veterinary school/year," please enter the school name, country, and graduation year.
Please check any previous hands-on Shelter Medicine or spay/neuter training you have participated in *
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Do you plan to complete any of the above activities before this course starts? *
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Describe any experience you have with community cats or trap-neuter-return programs. *
Describe any experience you have in other aspects of shelter medicine, such as volunteering or working in a shelter or rescue group, fostering, forensics, veterinary care for shelter/rescue pets, research, conferences, etc. *
How many cat neuters have you performed, if any? *
How many cat spays have you performed, if any? *
How many dog spays have you performed, if any? *
How many dog neuters have you performed, if any? *
Have you taken any UF Shelter Medicine Courses? *
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