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This is the sixth year that PVM faculty and veterinary students have partnered with the state fair to help provide care for the thousands of animals present. The students are able to enhance their learning with hands-on experience, while animals and their owners have peace of mind knowing that there is an around-the-clock veterinary team ready to assist if necessary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The College also hosts the Indiana State Fair Vet Camp, which\ninvolves mulitple one-day versions of the summer on-campus Boiler Vet Camps. The\nState Fair Vet Camp gives middle and high school students opportunities to watch\na spay\/neuter surgery demonstration, hear from Purdue veterinary students,\nengage in hands-on activities, and even learn how to suture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Vet Camp was held in PVM\u2019s own tent on the north side of\nthe fairgrounds, where the public also could view surgery demonstrations,\ninteractive displays, and listen to educational talks about topics such as\nanimal dentistry and physical therapy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A story broadcast on Indianapolis TV station WRTV-6<\/a>\nfeatured information about the State Fair Vet Camp and the veterinary students helping\nwith veterinary care for the animals at the fair, and included an interview with\nDr. Jonathan Townsend, clinical assistant professor of dairy production\nmedicine and Extension Programs director. \nClick here to view\nthe story<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The College also partnered with Indiana 4-H Youth\nDevelopment to provide veterinary expertise for the 4-H Dog Show at the State\nFair. Dr. Suma Rao, clinical assistant professor, said the Primary Care Service\ntraveled to the fairgrounds to perform examinations on 4-H pet dogs that were\ncompeting for agility. Fourth-year Purdue veterinary students conducted checks\nof the dogs before they were shown, examining the pets for contagious diseases\nlike ear infections and upper respiratory infections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr. Jim Weisman, assistant dean for student affairs and clinical associate professor played a large part in facilitating PVM\u2019s involvement in this year\u2019s State Fair. \u201cOur participation in the Indiana State Fair provides a great opportunity for our students, faculty, and staff to engage with the State Fair attendees,\u201d Dr. Weisman said. \u201cThis opportunity allows everyone to share the great aspects of our profession and all of the outstanding activities of our College. We appreciate everyone\u2019s participation in the 2019 Indiana State Fair.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2019 Indiana State Fair saw close to 880,000 attendees, hundreds of events, and a lot of Purdue Veterinary Medicine! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,31,28,29,27,42],"tags":[665,477,26,56,663,664,284,67,723,436,51],"class_list":["post-5997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-engagement","category-hospitals","category-our-impact","category-our-people","category-services","category-students","tag-4-h","tag-boiler-vet-camp","tag-featured-story","tag-homepage","tag-indiana-state-fair","tag-indiana-state-fair-vet-camp","tag-jim-weisman","tag-small-animal-hospital","tag-small-animal-primary-care","tag-suma-rao","tag-vth"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5997","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=5997"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6056,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5997\/revisions\/6056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"An](\"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_8418_copy_State_Fair_demos_sm-1024x679.jpg\")