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in Marshall. “Unfortunately, small town USA takes the biggest hit. All the small-animal graduates want to go to the big cities. There are very few equine graduates, and they all want to go to Middleburg, Lexington, Kentucky or Ocala, Florida.
“I was told a few years ago by staff at Virginia Tech that they typically have less than six students per class that ‘might’ be interested in doing horses and probably half that interested in food-animal medicine.”
To counter the increasing shortage of vets, some localities are turning to extreme measures. Casey said that he saw a county in South Dakota advertising that they would pay a vet student’s tui.tion if he or she would set up practice in the remote region.
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