I just evolved into that, because as we took veterinary students for two-month blocks along, then that evolved into setting up a residency program, which is for a veterinarian who has graduated from veterinary school already, and wants to devote his career to zoo medicine. So that’s something that we… Read More
And that was the first type of thing for the medical school?… Read More
There was a veterinary residency prior to that at University of California, but that was university-based. This had the zoo there, and I wanted it to be part, really the university to be part of it, just like any other resident. If somebody’s doing a residency in ophthalmology or surgery… Read More
What dose do you use on, you know, a lemur or whatever?… Read More
That’s another position, or you just evolved into it?… Read More
And trying to figure it out was sometimes a little difficult. But you became senior veterinarian and director of research. Read More
Well, what drugs are we using?… Read More
Because essentially as a zoo veterinarian back then, we were doing research. I mean, we were using drugs on animals that had, those drugs had never been used on a lot of those animals. We talk about M99, well the other anesthetic that was used a lot back then was… Read More
And so we had the opportunity, and you didn’t necessarily know, well, what dose do you use on an alligator?… Read More
When are you approached to get a different position than just veterinarian and why?… Read More
In a way I did have the opportunity though, because I did get there, it was under a different thing, and it wasn’t doing clinical medicine, it was doing pathology. But it gave me the opportunity, and so maybe that’s why I did it, I don’t know. I just thought… Read More
I mean, I don’t know that I was approached to do it. I guess as doing clinical medicine, I was always interested in why something works or doesn’t work I guess, and that’s research in a way. You know, you’re checking into it. Read More
Do you think you did it because you never had the opportunity?… Read More
Yes. to the zoo director, and you had to sell it to the university. Well, I had to sell it to the zoo director because it allowed, but these students weren’t getting paid. They were coming to learn. And so in the beginning yes, I had to sell it to… Read More
(laughing) Maybe, you know?… Read More
As I was the veterinarian at the zoo, I right away allowed veterinary students, I had them sign up, I only took one student at a time, and they were there for two months, and then another student. At that time, the university had started what they called the block… Read More
So this was your idea to start the program?… Read More
So you’re the veterinarian, and while you were the veterinarian, is that when you started the preceptor, the residency program?… Read More
Or was it when you got to the next level and became the senior veterinarian?… Read More
Did you start this program as you were the veterinarian at the zoo or after you moved up a little?… Read More