Kelly Cyr, who is a vet at Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter (BARCS) & a UMBC alum reached out to our Service-Learning about recruiting UMBC students (especially pre-vet students) to help with AM and PM dog and cat meds at BARCS. This would be a beneficial opportunity that would allow those participating to get veterinary experience to improve vet school applications.
From Kelly Cyr:
We've recently been having trouble finding volunteers to help with AM and PM dog and cat meds at BARCS. We currently only have a few people trained to do this job and it's a HUGE help for our vet techs when someone is able to help with meds.
I'm hoping that maybe this is something we can recruit UMBC students (especially pre-vet students) to help us with. I'm hopeful that this would be a mutually beneficial thing, especially for any pre-vet students as it would allow them to get veterinary experience to improve their vet school applications.
We've had a couple of UMBC students start off as volunteer techs and move into contract/FT tech positions and then move on to veterinary school! This year we had two amazing UMBC students (Cierra McKoy and Matt Brown) BOTH get into vet school!
Kelly Cyr, DVM, MS
When Mon Nov 1, 2021 11am – 12pm (EDT) Where PUP 203, 2nd floor of the Public Policy Building Please fill out the poll if you plan to attend.