Special Services

Becoming a Partner with the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine

The Partners Program was established to recognize and stimulate the exchange of information, resources and goodwill between the School of Veterinary Medicine, the veterinary medical profession and animal lovers of California. The sole criterion for membership is a demonstrated interest in the advancement of the School's education, research, and animal health missions. We especially rely on practicing veterinarians to help us identify friends of veterinary medicine who may be potential donors. Please call Kelly Nimtz at 530-752-7024. There are six partnership activities recognized through The Partners Program:

Referral Partners - veterinarians who refer patients to the VMTH
Memorial Fund Partners - hospital or clinics that actively sponsor the Companion Animal or Equine Memorial funds
Mentoring Partners - veterinarians who mentor applicants for admission to the school
Professional Partners - veterinarians who assist the School with its professional activities
Support Partners - friends who assist the School with charitable contributions or the development of political and financial support
University Partners - faculty, staff, and students who significantly contribute to the School's missions.

For more information about The Partners Program, please call (530) 752-1360, or check our web site.

 

Don Low Fellowship

The Donald G. Low – CVMA Practitioner Fellowship is a joint activity between the California Veterinary Medical Association and the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, which has grown from an appreciation of the need for and advantages of ongoing interaction between practitioners and the School.

The purpose of the Fellowship is to tallow a practitioner to learn (1) in the clinical setting of the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital; (2) in other School programs and laboratories (such as the VMTRC or other Centers, and (3) through interactions with faculty, residents, and students. The Fellowship program is designed to meet practitioner needs not available within residencies or other current programs.

The Fellowship is intended to provide intellectual stimulation, interaction, and discussion between the practitioner, faculty, and students within an area of interest to the practitioner. As an example, the Fellowship could be designed to improve general knowledge of ophthalmology through interaction within the clinical teaching environment, rounds and patient care. The Fellowship is not intended to provide specific training opportunities necessary to make the Fellow proficient, for example, at cataract surgery. The development of specific task-oriented skills, such as mastering a surgical procedure, endoscopy, ultrasound, etc., are best met trough residency training and continuing education programs, and are not the goal of this program.

Selected Practitioner Fellows are expected to spend on Fellow month (20 days) in the training program. Practitioner Fellow candidates will select from those services, enters and laboratories (such as anesthesiology, radiology, neurology, oncology, etc.) that have indicated sufficient case load and faculty resources to sustain a Fellow in the coming year.

Because of the fluctuation in case load and faculty demands, all services, programs, and laboratories will be invited annually to volunteer their participation in the following year’s Fellowship training program based on their ability to meet the additional demands of such a program. A list of the available Fellowship areas will be advertised each year.

No direct financial support for Fellows will be available. Fellows will not pay registration fees or tuition.

Participating Service Units, programs, and laboratories will receive support from the endowment at a rate that approximates that paid by veterinary students (under current fee schedules, participating units will receive $1,000 per month of Fellowship support) to offset additional costs associated with the Fellow and to support the educational program of the unit.

Endowment earnings provide the financial resources to support the Fellowship. University endowment management returns approximately 50 percent of earnings to he corpus, thereby maintaining equal “buying power” in perpetuity.

A committee with representatives from CVMA, Faculty, and Alumni will review applications and select finalists who will then develop an in-depth proposal in partnership with a faculty mentor in their area of interest.

The committee will review and award Fellowships based on competitive merit evaluation of the applicants and their proposals.

The Practitioner Fellowship will provide a new and unique opportunity for outstanding veterinarians in all areas of professional service to enhance their contributions to their patients, society, and the veterinary profession.