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    • Incoming veterinary students have the opportunity to get acquainted at the Illinois Veterinary Leadership Experience (iVLE) before classes start.

    WELCOME

    We are looking forward to your arrival on campus and congratulate you on becoming a member of the Class of 2029. We hope you will find this website helpful in getting all your required information completed.

    We look forward to meeting you and orienting you to the DVM program. More information regarding matriculation tasks, orientation, Blue Coat Ceremony, and other general admission information will be available here on April 15, 2025.

    If you need additional information, please call us at 217-265-0380 or e-mail us at admissions@vetmed.illinois.edu.

    We are here to help you in any way we can. 


    Taylor McCrory, Coordinator of Admissions
    Stephanie Zoch, ASA Office Manager
    Drew McMullen, ASA Office Support Specialist
    Carol Parker, ASA Office Support Specialist

    STUDENT Q&A DAY

    • Date:  March 25, 2025
    • Location: Virtually through Zoom
    • Time: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. (Central Standard Time)
    • Link: Distributed the week of March 10, 2025
    • Schedule: 
      • 10 – 10:30 a.m. – Admissions Updates and Next Steps
        Dr. Sara Connolly, Assistant Dean of Admissions and Student Success
      • 10:30 – 11 a.m. – Financial Aid Session
        Bethany Onwodi
      • 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. – Faculty Panel
        To Be Announced
      • 12 – 1 p.m. – Student Panel
        To Be Announced
      • 1 – 1:30 p.m. – University of Illinois Disability Resources and Educational Services
        Jessica Dikeman
      • 1:30 – 2 p.m. – Last Questions
        Dr. Sara Connolly, Assistant Dean of Admissions and Student Success

     

    COURSES, ELECTIVES, AND MORE

    Fall Schedule

    First Year Fall Schedule
    Course #
    and Name    		 Credit Hours Type CRN Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri
    Required Core Courses 
    VM 602
    Structure & Function I    		 9.5 Lecture (AL1) 54952 1-3 1-3 1-3 1-3 1-3
    Lab (AB1) 8-12 8-12 8-12 8-12 8-12
    VM 601
    Clinical Practice I    		 4 Lecture 54943 8-9 8-9 8-9
    Remainder of time will be spent in clinical rotations
    Elective Courses
    PATH 629
    Emergency Preparedness and Response to Foreign Animal Diseases    		 2 Day/Times
    Online/TBD    		 54561
    VCM 648
    One Medicine, One Health    		 3 54616 5:30-8:30

     Elective Opportunities

    Students accepted are required to have a total of 8 elective credit hours completed as part of the requirements of the DVM program.  It is customary that students take 1-2 electives per semester in order to try to complete all 8 electives before they enter their fourth year of clinical rotations which start in the spring semester of their third year. The two elective courses available to you in the fall as first year students are (see schedule above):

    • Emergency Preparedness and Response to Foreign Animal Diseases
    • One Medicine, One Health

    Students also have the opportunity to request elective credit for experience outside the College of Veterinary Medicine.  This process happens twice a year (April 15 and November 15 deadlines) depending on the dates the student is seeking to attend.  This is a formal process that students can participate in to have their request reviewed by the Office of Academic and Student Affairs and/or by the college Educational Policy Committee. Faculty have developed a listing of “streamed” electives which can be taught (subject to change) to have a variety of topics from which to pick. Please see list below.

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