Our presence in Philadelphia gives Penn the advantage of an impressive quantity of patients. Because we are located in a metropolis with millions of people-and their millions of animals-we never lack patients.Our urban clinic, in the heart of the University City section of Philadelphia, draws an enormous caseload of varied small species. And our pastoral New Bolton Center, in Kennett Square, Chester County, 32 miles southwest of Philadelphia, on the edge of Lancaster County, attracts a large number of assorted large animals.During the 1998-1999 academic year, we saw 24,000 small animals and 6,000 large animals.
Penn's veterinary facilities serve as referral hospitals for veterinarians in private practice and in private specialty practice, just as large urban medical centers attract the most challenging patients from private practitioners and smaller community hospitals. The effect is that, not only is there a vast number of patients -there's also an amalgam of types of patients and variety of problems.
The innovative core/ elective curriculum allows students limitless choices. Seniors can select one of five distinct clinical areas: small animal, mixed (small and large) animal, large animal, equine, and food animal medicine.
The huge biomedical research complex that comprises the University of Pennsylvania greatly enhances the teaching that students receive and their opportunity to participate in cutting-edge research in countless disciplines. Few universities have professional schools in veterinary medicine and medicine and dentistry and nursing, as Penn has, and fewer still have them on a single campus. Our rural facility, with its large and fully functional emergency service, is also ideally equipped and located.
Our superb faculty members are committed to educating veterinary students.Your education is their central focus. The diversity of their academic backgrounds works to your advantage-their varied and unique perspectives bring a fullness to your education.Visiting faculty, from institutions across the country and around the world, further enhance this diversity.
Philadelphia is the big-time, the fifth-largest city in the United States. It offers professional sports, art museums and galleries, restaurants representing every imaginable cuisine - and it's all here for your enjoyment. Philadelphia, in the heart of the New York-to-Washington corridor, enjoys a vibrant, lively atmosphere distinctly its own. You can be part of it.We want to attract students who are active in areas other than veterinary medicine. Every year the anatomy class goes to a baseball game. Yes, they want to learn about cats and cows, but they also need to know about the rest of world.
