Graduate Education

For the online application to the Veterinary Medical Sicences Graduate Program click here.

Welcome!

The graduate and postgraduate education mission of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine is to be an international leader in the training of animal health researchers and postgraduate veterinarians who will advance animal and public health as well as the veterinary profession.

Though our DVM training program is just in its second year, our research and graduate education programs are growing very rapidly. We have almost 100 research and clinical trainees and steadily continue to climb towards our target of 200. The programs that we have launched are as follows:

• Graduate training leading to MSc and PhD degrees;
• Internships (one year) for DVM graduates to gain additional experience in specialty clinical areas (small animal, bovine, equine, zoo medicine);
• Residency training (at least two years) for specialty clinical training leading to Board Certification for individuals who already have DVM degrees
• Postdoctoral fellowships for research trainees that already have PhD degrees;
• Undergraduate summer research studentships designed to provide rich exposure to research and promote graduate student recruitment.

The features of our graduate program are:

• generous graduate student entrance awards of $18,000 up to $40,000* (*for post-professional students);
• waiver of international student tuition fees (i.e. international students pay same fees as Canadian students);
• working within a research-intensive veterinary school with close linkages to the medical school and partner agencies in the public and private sector
• an optional 4-6 month research rotation program to allow students a variety of work environments with different professors in order to make more informed decisions about supervisors;
• strong training in basic research skills and in addition to, communication, ethics and career options;
• minimal residency requirement to encourage research work off site;
• commitment to completion of MSc within 2 years, and completion of candidacy (qualifying) exam for PhD student within 18 months.

For more information please contact:
Dr. Tara Christie
Graduate and Postgraduate Training Manager
vmgrad [at] ucalgary [dot] ca