SDSU Celebrates Professional Programin Veterinary Medicine Studentswith Blue Coat Ceremony - Tri-State Livestock News

Brookings, S.D. – The second people of South Dakota State University Professional Program successful Veterinary Medicine students was honored astatine a Blue Coat Ceremony connected October 22, 2022, wherever each pupil was presented with a personalized bluish Carhartt® enactment coat. 

The bluish coats are SDSU’s mode of honoring students’ entranceway into the veterinary medicine profession. Each overgarment is sponsored by a veterinarian from South Dakota oregon the surrounding region. 

“This is simply a enactment overgarment that symbolizes the hard enactment you are doing some successful veterinary school, but besides successful your vocation arsenic a veterinarian,” said Russ Daly, SDSU professor, SDSU Extension Veterinarian and State Public Health Veterinarian. “It is simply a overgarment to support you lukewarm and punctual you that determination are radical present to enactment you. The coats are from veterinarians who chose to acquisition them conscionable for you – this symbolizes a assemblage of veterinarians who are down you, and we anticipation you volition deterioration these coats with pridefulness for years to come.” 

Erin Burton, Senior Associate Dean of Academic and Student Affairs for the University of Minnesota (UMN) College of Veterinary Medicine besides conveyed positive messages to the students connected behalf of the UMN. The UMN College of Veterinary Medicine and SDSU spouse unneurotic to connection the collaborative program, admitting 20 students per people to implicit their archetypal 2 years of veterinary schoolhouse astatine SDSU successful Brookings before finishing their past 2 years connected the UMN field successful St. Paul. 

“The bluish Carhartt® overgarment is simply a awesome of the hard enactment and dedication that veterinary students grounds portion going done veterinary schoolhouse and upon graduation arsenic a veterinarian,” said Jessie Juarez, manager of the SDSU Professional Program successful Veterinary Medicine. “I americium arrogant that each overgarment was sponsored by veterinarians from South Dakota, North Dakota and Minnesota who provided words of encouragement to our PPVM students during the ceremony.” 

Veterinary students celebrated and presented with a bluish overgarment astatine the ceremonial include:

• Joshua Bartels of Glenwood, Minnesota – sponsored by Dr. Dean Christianson of Ashley Veterinary Clinic successful Ashley, North Dakota 
• Wendy Blickensderfer of Rapid City, South Dakota – sponsored by Dr. George Twitero of Black Hills Animal Hospital successful Rapid City, South Dakota
• Emily Cap of Tabor, South Dakota – sponsored by Sioux Nation Veterinary Clinic successful Freeman, South Dakota 
• Benjamin Dentlinger of New Virginia, Iowa – sponsored by Dr. Grant Weaver of Aurora Pharmaceuticals Inc. successful Northfield, Minnesota 
• Katie Evans of Parker, Colorado – sponsored by Dr. Cindy Franklin of Animal Health Clinic successful Yankton, South Dakota
• Traelene Fallis of Fort Thompson, South Dakota – sponsored by Dr. Corale Dorn of Dells Veterinary Services successful Dell Rapids, South Dakota, and Western Veterinary Services successful Kadoka and Philip, South Dakota
• Alexis Freese of Fulda, Minnesota – sponsored by Pipestone Veterinary Services successful Pipestone, Minnesota 
• Briana Hotzler of Hosmer, South Dakota – sponsored by Northern Plains Animal Health successful Aberdeen, South Dakota 
• Jennifer Johnson of Gravity, Iowa – sponsored by Dr. Nate Illiff of Sisseton Veterinary Service successful Sisseton, South Dakota
• Lauren Kassilke of Auburn, Alabama – sponsored by Dr. Jane Christopher-Hennings of Arlington, South Dakota
• Holly Keppers of Holdingford, Minnesota – sponsored by Dr. Jennifer Fischer of Valley City Veterinary Hospital successful Valley City, North Dakota
• McKenna Kimmerle of Becker, Minnesota – sponsored by Dr. Adam Benson of Big Sioux Veterinary Care, PLLC successful Brookings, South Dakota
• Lucas Lazorik of Mellen, Wisconsin – sponsored by Dr. Adam Benson of Big Sioux Veterinary Care, PLLC successful Brookings, South Dakota
• Shailey Marczak of Cottonwood, Minnesota – sponsored by Clear Lake Veterinary Clinic, PC successful Clear Lake, South Dakota
• Grace Phinney of Mitchell, South Dakota – sponsored by Dr. Jennifer Stevens of Horizon Pet Care successful Brandon, South Dakota
• Amy Scharf of Arvado, Colorado – sponsored by Dr. Jessi Warrington of Webster Veterinary Clinic successful Webster, South Dakota
• Boone Schmitz of Mineral Point, Wisconsin – sponsored by Dr. David Zeman of Brookings, South Dakota
• Morgan Simon of Carver, Minnesota – sponsored by Dr. Kay Miller of Fulton, South Dakota
• Madison Thieman of Winner, South Dakota – sponsored by Animal Clinic, Ltd. successful Winner, South Dakota
• Jadyn Vetos of Nampa, Idaho – sponsored by Dr. William Howard of Howard Veterinary Clinic successful Watertown, South Dakota

“The Blue Coat Ceremony was a tremendous occurrence this twelvemonth – we are gathering a arrogant contented astatine SDSU that celebrates our students’ entranceway into the Professional Program successful Veterinary Medicine,” said Juarez.  

The Professional Program successful Veterinary Medicine allows students to summation hands-on applicable acquisition moving with nutrient and companion animals during their clip astatine SDSU, portion preparing to service successful captious roles crossed the spectrum of carnal health, biology wellness and nationalist health. 

The caller programme is made imaginable done a ceremonial cooperative agreement, successful which SDSU students admitted into the nonrecreational programme implicit the archetypal 2 years of their veterinary aesculapian acquisition astatine South Dakota State University and past transportation to the University of Minnesota’s College of Veterinary Medicine (UMN CVM) for the last 2 years of study. The collaborative programme volition conscionable each accreditation requirements of the American Veterinary Medical Association Council connected Education for the UMN CVM accredited program. Once students implicit the required pre-veterinary curriculum, they tin use to the Professional Program.

While astatine SDSU, students volition person a rigorous, yet enriched learning acquisition due to the fact that people sizes are intended to beryllium tiny (about 20 students). The tiny people size was designed to supply the accidental for students to person supportive learning communities and much hands-on applicable acquisition moving with nutrient and companion animals, arsenic good arsenic making it imaginable to enactment intimately successful a world-class diagnostic installation with dedicated module and technological researchers. 

–SDSU Extension