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College of Veterinary Medicine
College of Veterinary Medicine
We are a “college without walls.” Our students start working directly with animals in their first semester, alongside expert faculty and local veterinarians.
95 %
of graduates have jobs before they graduate (5-year average) – College of Veterinary Medicine
20 %
projected job growth through 2032 – U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Overview OF the PROGRAMS
Our four-year Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) curriculum uses a problem-based learning approach guided by a Reverence for Life philosophy. Your education will include wellness care, primary and tertiary care, client communication, collegial exchange, and business training. Groups of approximately eight students actively engage in the learning process with faculty.
Commitment TO HUMANISM
Humanism is at the core of WesternU and encompasses values that we regard to be vital to our mission in health care, education, and community. These values include acceptance, altruism, compassion, diversity, empathy, fairness, inclusion, integrity, kindness, and respect. We embrace Humanism as a primary principle that shapes our actions, interactions, and institutional culture. Embracing Humanism empowers us to grow as individuals and as a community. It is a lifelong and daily commitment—one that requires intention, action, and reflection. Only through this ongoing practice can we truly embody WesternU Humanism and fulfill our mission to teach, to heal, together.
Give to the College
Your support helps our students fulfill their dreams of becoming veterinarians—your gift will help their vision become a reality. We are grateful for your partnership and ask that, with our students, you dream big dreams and stretch with us. Together, we can educate veterinarians with excellence, prepare them for the challenging work ahead, and serve as a model for veterinary academia around the world. Learn more.
Veterinary Outlook Magazine
This issue focuses on research and two long-time faculty members create a first-time comprehensive textbook spotlighting chicken anatomy and histology.
WesternU CVM Career Center
We’re dedicated to inspiring future professionals and advancing knowledge to serve society. Our Career Center connects students and graduates with employers across the country, while also sharing opportunities with prospective faculty and staff to join our team. Whether you’re seeking your next role, or looking to hire one of our exceptional veterinary students or new graduates, our Career Center is ready to connect you.
External employers looking to hire veterinary students, or recent grads, should visit the “Student/Grad Positions” link below and click on the “Employer” tab.
External employers looking to hire veterinary students, or recent grads, should visit the “Student/Grad Positions” link below and click on the “Employer” tab.
Clinical Affiliation Specialist
The Clinical Affiliations Specialist is responsible for coordinating the development and execution of affiliations and related documents between the College and external partners as it relates to clinical rotations. Position incumbent will be relied upon to track all contracts, coordinate re-negotiations, process preceptor payments and provide operational support to the Senior Director of Operations.
Animal Care Assistant
The Animal Care Assistant supports the veterinarians and veterinary technicians in ensuring quality veterinary care for all pets, advocates for pets, educates clients on all aspects of pet health, and ensures a safe and effective hospital environment.
Social Media Student Ambassador – CVM
This position is a Federal Work Study position. WesternU CVM Student Ambassadors will act as a bridge between the college Digital Marketing Communications Specialist (DMCS) and the student experience. This position allows students to gain marketing experience, explore the concepts of social media reach and analytics. Content, or ideas for content, will be self-generated by student ambassadors on a weekly basis, be reviewed at weekly team meetings, and launched in a timely manner. These are shared skill sets between the ambassador positions: analytics, content creation, event marketing, relationship management, social media marketing, and videography.
Pathology Prosector
This position is responsible for creating, developing and maintaining anatomical pathology material to increase and improve the existing collection of pathology gross and microscopic specimens in the College of Veterinary Medicine. These positions require dedication, self-motivation to study and to look for resources (assistance will be provided by Pathology Faculty) and skills to dissect.
Student Dissector/Prosector
This position is responsible for creating prosections and anatomical preparations to increase and improve the existing collection of anatomical specimens in the College of Veterinary Medicine. These positions require dedication, self-motivation to study and to look for resources (although assistance will be provided by Faculty and Staff) and skills to dissect.
Academic Lab Assistant
The Academic Laboratory Assistant provides technical and non-technical support to the academic labs of the College of Veterinary Medicine. Embalm/harvest, prepare anatomical specimens and provide support for cadaver-based activities. The Academic Laboratory Assistant reports to the Academic Laboratory Manager.
Animal Care Assistant
The Animal Care Assistant supports the veterinarians and veterinary technicians in ensuring quality veterinary care for all pets, advocates for pets, educates clients on all aspects of pet health, and ensures a safe and effective hospital environment.
Rotations Coordinator II
Provides support to the Office of Year 4 Curriculum, College of Veterinary Medicine. Responsible for booking travel and lodging arrangements, scheduling and coordinating clinical rotations, and serving as a liaison between the sites, preceptors and students. Maintaining files and records; handling time-sensitive and confidential information; and other duties as assigned. This position provides clerical support for the Director of Year 4 Curriculum, designated University and college committees, and designated college faculty in the delivery of the professional veterinary medical curriculum. The individual must exercise confidentially, good judgment, initiative, tact and diplomacy in handling issues that reflect on the students, staff, the college, the University, and the preceptors of the college.
Position reports to the Director of Year 4 Curriculum.
Academic Technology Specialist
The Information Technology Specialist supports curriculum delivery by implementing software solutions, enhancing the efficiency of electronic platforms, and developing internal applications or automations used by the college.
The Information Technology Specialist reports to the Senior Director of Operations.
Academic Technology Specialist
The Academic Technology Specialist reports to the Senior Technology Project Manager. These individual supports curriculum delivery and has the primary purpose of enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of the electronic platforms and technology used by the college.
Student Affairs Coordinator
The Student Affairs Coordinator provides high-level student affairs support, including, but not limited to administrative support to the CVM Associate Dean for Student Affairs, event management, and oversight of the work in collaboration with a diverse audience. The position incumbent is expected to manage and monitor all aspects of assigned duties including, but not limited to, maintaining the office of Student Affairs while serving a diverse audience of guests including prospective students, students, alumni, faculty, staff, parents, donors, community members, and other distinguished guests.
The position reports to and is evaluated by the Assistant Dean for Student Affairs for the College of Veterinary Medicine.
Assistant/Associate Professor of Clinical Sciences – Non-Tenure Track
We invite you to join the innovative and diverse faculty at the Western University of Health Sciences College of Veterinary Medicine (WesternU-CVM). We are seeking a colleague to contribute to the college’s mission to educate veterinary professionals and advance knowledge to address the contemporary needs of society. This team member will:
- Provide content expertise in one or more Clinical Specialties, contributing to scholarly advancement of the clinical science, and incorporating a specific discipline in the veterinary curriculum.
- The CVM utilizes a Distributive model for clinical education. Please indicate in the cover letter any expertise you have in the delivery of distributed clinical education, and in any of the following clinical disciplines that are recognized by the AVMA’s American Board of Veterinary Specialties (ABVS):
- Anesthesia and Analgesia
- Animal Welfare
- Avian Practice
- Behavior
- Canine and Feline Practice
- Cardiology
- Clinical Pharmacology
- Dental
- Dermatology
- Emergency and Critical Care
- Equine Practice
- Exotic Companion Mammal Practice
- Food and Fiber Animal Practice
- Internal Medicine – Small Animal and Large Animal
- Laboratory Animal Medicine
- Microbiology – Virology, Immunology, Bacteriology/Mycology, Parasitology
- Neurology
- Nutrition
- Oncology
- Ophthalmology
- Pathology – Anatomic, Clinical
- Poultry
- Preventive Medicine – Epidemiology
- Radiology – Radiation oncology, Diagnostic imaging
- Reptile and Amphibian Practice
- Shelter Medicine Practice
- Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation – Equine and Canine
- Surgery – Small Animal and Large Animal
- Theriogenology
- Toxicology
- Zoological Medicine
- The CVM implements an innovative Problem-Based Learning (PBL) curriculum during the pre-clinical years.
- The CVM is seeking individuals with specific expertise in various disciplines. Please specify in the cover letter the level of expertise you have in any of the following disciplines, whether your experience is clinical or in the foundational sciences:
- Anatomy
- Animal Behavior
- Animal Reproduction (Theriogenology)
- Epidemiology
- Genetics
- Immunology
- Microbiology (Bacteriology, Mycology, Virology)
- Nutrition
- Parasitology
- Pathology (Anatomic, Clinical)
- Pharmacology
- Physiology
- Toxicology
- The CVM organizes much of the pre-clinical curriculum based on body systems. Please indicate in the cover letter any expertise you have in the clinical sciences related to any of the following systems:
- Cardiopulmonary
- Endocrinology
- Immune and Inflammatory
- Integumentary
- Gastrointestinal
- Musculoskeletal
- Neurology
- Reproductive
- Special senses
- Urinary
- Assume various teaching roles, when required, to meet curricular demands and as assigned by the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.
- Provide support in the training of students in all levels of the DVM curriculum.
- Serve on college and university standing committees.
- The CVM utilizes a Distributive model for clinical education. Please indicate in the cover letter any expertise you have in the delivery of distributed clinical education, and in any of the following clinical disciplines that are recognized by the AVMA’s American Board of Veterinary Specialties (ABVS):
Academic Laboratory Assistant
The Academic Laboratory Assistant provides technical and non-technical support to the academic labs of the College of Veterinary Medicine. Embalm/harvest, prepare anatomical specimens and provide support for cadaver-based activities. The Academic Laboratory Assistant (Anatomy) reports to the Academic Laboratory Supervisor as designated by the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.
Laboratory Assistant
Primary Purpose: Summer Research Assistant for CVM SARE project
Lab Assistant will report to Dr. Jose Peralta, College of Veterinary Medicine. Work will involve travel to dairies, collection of samples including colostrum, transport of samples to lab, microbiological analysis of samples, project coordination, data entry and management.
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