{"id":3774,"date":"2019-02-15T12:05:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T17:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=3774"},"modified":"2019-02-15T12:05:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T17:05:29","slug":"spotlight-on-students-meet-kayla-hoenert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/spotlight-on-students-meet-kayla-hoenert.php","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight on Students: Meet Kayla Hoenert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Kayla
Kayla Hoenert, SAVMA Purdue senior delegate, at a Purdue baseball game with Rallo, her first-year canine educator.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Vet\nGazette continues a series of profiles featuring student leaders this week by\nshining the spotlight on Kayla Hoenert, who is serving as the senior delegate\nin SAVMA Purdue \u2013 the Purdue chapter of the Student American Veterinary Medical\nAssociation.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kayla is\nfocusing her studies toward large animal medicine. Her passion for veterinary\nmedicine started when she was a little girl. She decided by a very early age\nthat she wanted to be a veterinarian. Her passion grew when she reached high\nschool and became more involved with agriculture and livestock production. After\nKayla started showing dairy heifers for 4-H, her focus on large animal medicine\nwas solidified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kayla chose\nPurdue University because of her desire for hands-on learning opportunities and\nsmall class sizes. She knew she would benefit from the kind of one-on-one help\nfrom the professors that Purdue offered. Now, as a second-year DVM student, she\nfeels that she has been able to experience all the reasons why she chose Purdue\nVeterinary Medicine. Kayla said she loves the family feel and comradery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SAVMA Purdue also is a positive influence in Kayla\u2019s life as a veterinary student. As a participant in the organization, Kayla said she has realized how the College is responsive to concerns within the profession involving such areas as wellness, diversity, and inclusion. By being a delegate, she has recognized how much work SAVMA and it’s parent organization, AVMA, does for students and veterinarians. \u201cSAVMA is a grassroots organization that enables students to guide the direction of the organization as the needs of our student body shifts and evolves,\u201d Kayla said.\u00a0 She enjoys being a part of the organization, which she credits for setting the foundation for her to be a leader in organizations in the future, so she can continue serving her profession and her colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outside of class and studying, Kayla likes spending her time doing DIY projects and taking dance lessons.\u00a0 She has a passion for health and fitness and strives to set an example for her classmates on how to be a veterinary student, while not sacrificing mental or physical health. After graduation, she hopes to work under an experienced bovine or mixed-animal veterinarian to gain the experience she would need to open her own practice. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kayla sets\nan example both inside and outside of the classroom, as she pursues her goals,\nwith the dream of one day owning her own large animal practice, and utilizing\nthe leadership experience she is gaining through SAVMA Purdue as a basis for serving\nher profession throughout her career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Vet Gazette continues a series of profiles featuring student leaders this week by shining the spotlight on Kayla Hoenert, who is serving as the senior delegate in SAVMA Purdue \u2013 the Purdue chapter of the Student American Veterinary Medical Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,44,29,42],"tags":[546,26,56,982,732,113,959],"class_list":["post-3774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-dvm","category-our-people","category-students","tag-dvm-class-of-2021","tag-featured-story","tag-homepage","tag-kayla-hoenert","tag-purdue-savma","tag-savma","tag-student-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3774"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3780,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774\/revisions\/3780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}