ULiège: veterinary students with a mobile clinic in the province of Luxembourg

In the province of Luxembourg, a mobile veterinary clinic puts students of the University of Liège directly at the heart of the field. This device, called EVE – for Students, Veterinarians, Breeders – involves the Province of Luxembourg for the vehicle fully equipped, ULiège and local veterinarians to respond to a very concrete problem: the shortage of practitioners in rural areas.
 

Concretely, these are students in their final year of veterinary medicine at the University of Liège who will board a fully equipped van to work on farms. Objective: to carry out exams, but above all to train in direct contact with the field.
“In addition to discovering the profession, they will meet other veterinarians with whom they will subsequently be able to complete an internship. This project should also make it possible to train current rural veterinarians in the use of equipment some of which already have“, adds Hugues Guyot, professor at ULiège and specialist in herd medicine
 

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For the University of Liège, the challenge is twofold. The aim is to immerse future veterinarians in the reality of rural practice, but also to create bridges with professionals. Students will be able to meet field veterinarians, consider internships and become familiar with tools and practices specific to herd medicine.
 

Supervised and carried out at the request of the treating veterinarians, these interventions will also provide concrete support to breeders to a problem or pathology concerning a herd. “The analysis of an individual problem is obviously not excluded, even if it is not the primary purpose of the vehicle“, concludes the professor

 

Through this project, the University of Liège clearly intends to encourage vocations and ultimately contribute to filling the lack of veterinarians in rural areas.