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January 2008: Veterinary
Medicine and Literature blog goes live - join the
discussion!
We're
looking forward to your thoughts and additions to our
conversation about veterinary medicine and literature.
We begin with a winter poem, Thomas Hardy's "Snow
in the Suburbs".
October
2007: Launch of Ontario Veterinary College Community
Readers Event
In
what is hoped to be an ongoing series, OVC Dean Elizabeth
Stone launched the community
reading and book discussion following the enthusiastic
response last year to her new course in veterinary medicine
and literature.
July
2005: Veterinary medicine and literature presented at
the International Conference on Communications in Veterinary
Medicine (ICCVM)
Elizabeth
Stone and Hilde Weisert presented the workshop, "Beginning
the Conversation: Using Literature to Enhance Understanding
& Empathy Towards Clients & Between Veterinarians,
Veterinary Technicians & Other Staff," at the
2nd Annual International Conference on Communication
in Veterinary Medicine in Collingwood, Ontario, Canada.
The
aim of the ICCVM
conference series is to bring together practitioners,
staff, teachers, researchers and technicians who are
interested in all aspects of veterinary communication.
June
2005: Stone Becomes Dean of
OVC, University of Guelph
Society
co-founder Elizabeth Stone became Dean of the Ontario
Veterinary College at the University of Guelph, Canada
June 1, 2005. Elizabeth was formerly Department Head,
Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary
Medicine, North Carolina State University, where she
instituted the selective in Veterinary Medicine and
Literature.
University
of Guelph Press Release
April
2004 at Duke's Vital Lines, Vital Signs
We
presented “Poetry
and Veterinary Medicine: A Report from Across the Border”
 at
the Vital
Lines, Vital Signs conference on medicine and poetry,
April 23, 24, 25, 2004, sponsored by Duke
University Center for the Study of Medical Ethics and
Humanities.
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