Sixty and Still Growing

The Center for Veterinary Health Sciences is a growing concern. It’s come a long way in 60 years, and it will continue to evolve as it strives to meet the ever-increasing requirements of veterinary medicine education.

Certainly today’s equipment is more plentiful and far more sophisticated than that available in 1948. New buildings underscore large infrastructure changes as well, while the growing need for additional office and laboratory space will continue to alter the face of OSU’s veterinary medicine.

As the tools and the needs of veterinary medicine have grown more complex, the center has added specialists in a variety of disciplines. These additions strengthen hands-on instruction for students and expand the hospital’s available services.

The Center’s Boren Veterinary Medial Teaching Hospital, certified by the

American Animal Hospital Association, now provides the public with routine and specialized 24-hour emergency care for small and large animals.

The emphasis and extent of research have grown in importance along with the increase in bioterrorism and food safety issues and antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Likewise, the opportunities for comparative biomedical research are expanding.

Growing, too, are the veterinarian’s career opportunities that reach from private practice to corporate to military to state and federal government. Today’s travel and practice abroad occur to an extent unheard of in 1948.

And, of course, OSU has trained the majority of Oklahoma’s veterinarians, and with a 60-year history, the Center for Veterinary Health Sciences is now training multiple generations within families.

A proven history awards OSU veterinary medicine a tradition that does not change over time. OSU, yesterday and tomorrow, is committed to graduating veterinarians prepared to meet the needs of the state, nation and the world.