How to attract young vets in large animal practice?

Stephane MARTINOT EAEVE Hanover 09

 How vet students see their future when entering in the vet faculty?

 Evolution of the professional project during the curriculum

 Proposals for a better impact of « Large Animal » practice

How do you see your future?

Study design Sept 2005

begin. 1st year

at the vet school

Oct 2006 to may 2007

During 2nd year

Feb to April 2006

During 1st Year

217 students

(4 ENV)

160 students

(3 ENV)

131 students

(4 ENV)

+ Oral interview of 10 students per school selected from the results of the 1st year questions (from March 06 to May 07)

April to july 2008

During 3rd Year

119 students

(4 ENV)

Web web

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General datas about the population

 71% of young womens  Profession of the parents

  High social level professions  39 students with a mother and/or a father in a

« health related profession »  Only 4 students with a vet parent  12 students with a parent in an « agriculture

related profession »  45 students with one or two parents in a

« teaching profession »

Why do you choose the vet school? (1st year)

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When did you choose to be a vet?

Year old (years) (%)

Less than 4 3

From 4 to 8 43,7

From 8 to 12 34,4

From 12 to 16 15,9

More than 16 1,2

Don’t know 1,8

TOTAL OBS. 100

Girl (mean = 9,1 years old), Boys (mean = 14,4 years old)

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First words when you think about a vet (1st Year)

Boys

Girls

passion

clinic

surgery

heard

médecine

contact

Independant job

nature

rural

doctor

My dream

preservation

help

To hear and help people

research

Animal love and respect

money

Diversified job

studies

Long and difficult studies

Exptic animals

Animal welfare

Personal implication/very busy

safety

Student life

equine

What I always wanted to do

What do you want to do after your studies? (1st Year)

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Evolution of the professional project during the curriculum?

Evolution of the professional project during the curriculum

Professional project you don’t want to do ?

How to increase the “large animal practice” professional project?

 Evolution inside the curriculum

Which track will you choose for next year (end 3rd year)

47,2

23,6

19,5

3,3

3,3

0,8

2,4

Total % for the 4 ENV

15

How to increase the “large animal practice” project?

 More informations during the curriculum

Do you think that you have enough help inside the vet school for preparing your professional project (3rd Year)

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How the vet school could help you in building your professional project (3rd year)

Citations %

Informations on the different aspects of the vet profession 27 26,2

Contact with teachers to help building the professional project

24 23,3

Externships 23 22,3

Others 10 9,7

Individual discussion about the professional project 6 5,8

Curriculum 6 5,8

Increasing the contact with the vet profession 5 4,9

More flexibility in the 5th year program 2 1,9

TOTAL 103 100,0

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How to increase the “large animal practice” project?

 Diversity of externships  Mentorship for the professional project  Including Professionals inside the

curriculum committee  Including some optional programs in

different tracks during the 5th year?

 A strategic goal for both public health, veterinary profession and vet faculties

 A problem to be solved by both party together

 Lots of ideas but very difficult to test  Political decisions also impact the topic

 Pierre Sans (ENV Toulouse)  JJ Bénet (ENV Alfort)   L Mounier (ENV Lyon)   B. Lijour (ENV Nantes)