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Purdue’s Student Chapter of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists  (SCACVP) works to make pathology relevant to all veterinary students through various wet labs, guest speakers and other activities that highlight a career in Veterinary Pathology.  There are many avenues a veterinary pathologist may take whether working for the pharmaceutical industry, government, wildlife, academia, or as a consultant.  We will try to bring speakers from these different areas so that you can get a better idea of what opportunities are available in this unique field.
For this year we will have a series of lunch and learn sessions with 15 minute videos on Exotic Animals diseases from Plum Island’s Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory.  These videos include topics like Foot and Mouth Disease Virus, African Horse Sickness, African Swine Fever, Sheep Pox Virus, and others.
Our tentative wet lab plans include labs focused on animal sample collection and familiarizing students with the clinical pathology lab and its procedures.  In the past we have done cytologic techniques and urinalysis labs.

• We have permission to allow our club members to go down to the Animal Diagnostic Disease Laboratory (ADDL) for Gross Pathology Rounds.  Sessions begin at 4 pm on these dates.  Please arrive a littler earlier to sign in.
  • January 26, 2009
  • February 2, 2009
  • March 2, 2009
  • March 9, 2009
  • March 23, 2009
  • March 30, 2009
  • April 6, 2009
  • April 20, 2009
  • May 4, 2009
• You are also cordially invited to Histopathology Rounds with the pathology residents and faculty on the follow dates in G167 on Wednesday mornings at 8:00 am on the following days.
• Feb 4, 2009
• March 11, 2009
• April 22, 2009
• Wait there is more!  Students are also invited to Clinical Pathology rounds held every Monday in VPRB Rm 103.
  
  • 12:00 pm-1pm , Every Monday

The SCACVP supports those students interested in pathology as a career by facilitating meetings with visiting pathologists, trips to the annual ACVP meeting, and providing information about internship and externship activities of interest.

Annual 60th ACVP meeting/ 44th ASVCP:
Date: December 5 - 8, 2009
Location: Monterey Convention Center
Hotel: Monterey Marriott Hotel, Monterey, CA
Link: http://www.acvp.org/meeting/

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS for the Meeting
Deadline for Submissions: June 1, 2009
Online submission forms and instructions will be available on the website in May.

Each club receives $1000 to share between members interested in attending this meeting!

To learn about opportunities in Zoo/Wildlife, Diagnostic, Government, and Industrial Laboratories:

• American College of Veterinary Pathology
• Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
• Plum Island Animal Disease Center, Oakridge Institute of Science Education Fellowships
• American Association for Zoo Veterinarians
• Wildlife Disease Association
• Association of Zoos and Aquariums
• Eli Lilly
• MPI, a Contractor Research Organization
• Opportunities in Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology, and Research at Purdue!
• http://www.addl.purdue.edu/Externship/desc.htm
• http://www.vet.purdue.edu/SummerScholarsProgram/

Current Job postings and Information on Salaries of Pathologists

All Current veterinary students at the Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine are encouraged to join!

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Pathology Club Officers

President
, DVM 2010

Treasurer
, DVM 2011

Advisors:
Dr. Peg Miller
Dr. Rose Raskin
Dr. Evelyn Kazacos