All Creatures and Other Tales

Published
February 27, 2009

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OVC students trade scalpels and stethoscopes for stories and poems about being, and becoming, veterinarians.

James Herriot is here. So are Margaret Atwood, Farley Mowat, Rudyard Kipling, Giller Prize winner Vincent Lam and Prof. David Waltner-Toews, Population Medicine. They're among numerous authors whose works are helping DVM students use the written word to explore some of the most deeply felt parts of being, and becoming, a veterinarian.

Offered at Guelph this winter for the third time by Ontario Veterinary College dean Elizabeth Stone, the second-year elective “Veterinary Medicine and Literature” allows up to 15 students to view veterinary practice through poems, plays, stories, essays and novels.

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