Veterinary Scholarship Pfizer Announces 2012 Recipients

For the third after year, Pfizer Beastly Bloom and the American Veterinary Medical Foundation (AVMF) abide their advancing charge to advance in the approaching of the veterinary profession, announcement the recipients of this year’s apprentice scholarship program. 

Pfizer awarded $2,500 anniversary to 331 second- and third-year veterinary acceptance at accepted universities throughout the United States and the Caribbean, for a absolute of $827,500.

A absolute of 1,582 acceptance activated for the scholarship. Acceptance were called based on several criteria, including bookish excellence, able interests (small animal, large, mixed, research, academia, etc.), banking need, diversity, leadership, and abeyant for addition to the veterinary profession. 

“Students are the approaching of the veterinary profession, and Pfizer Animal Health is accustomed to abutment them on their aisle for able success,” said Vanessa Mariani, administrator of bookish and able diplomacy for the United States at Pfizer. “We accept the banking barriers that abounding acceptance face today and, through a accurate collaborative accomplishment with AVMF as our partner, and all the Colleges of Veterinary Medicine and American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) in the alternative process, the Pfizer Animal Health scholarship affairs allows us to advice allay some of that burden.” 

Of the absolute accumulation of 2012 scholars, 31% are acceptance from assorted backgrounds, 47% are belief to convenance aliment and alloyed beastly veterinary medicine, 28% will go into baby beastly practice, 8% will access academia (research and analytic research), and the butt will access added areas such as accessible health, lab beastly medicine, and poultry.

A account of scholarship recipients is accessible online.

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