This article is from a special issue of Education Life that looks at professional schools.
Set aside the biology and chemistry for a moment to recall why you want to be a vet.
The Society for Veterinary Medicine and Literature wants to help students and vets "grasp the nonmedical aspects of their chosen profession," says Elizabeth Stone, dean of the Ontario Veterinary College at the University of Guelph. "Literature can help them retain their sense of joy about becoming/being a veterinarian."
Dr. Stone and her society co-founder, Hilde Weisert, first turned the narrative medicine trend into pet-friendly pedagogy at North Carolina State, where they taught an elective that used stories and poems about the animal kingdom to debate ethics and the life-or-death decisions unique to vets, as well as to help students navigate relationships with pet owners and speechless patients. No small task, as Ms. Weisert illustrates in her poem "Diagnosis."
Archie trembles — in pain, or fear?
No words, but the vet's hands hear.
Besides hosting conferences and teaching, Dr. Stone and Ms. Weisert have edited "Animal Companions, Animal Doctors, Animal People," an anthology that leads off with a Mark Doty poem, "Golden Retrievals," that is also read each year at the Ontario college's welcoming ceremony for new students.
Golden Retrievals
Fetch? Balls and sticks capture my attention
seconds at a time. Catch? I don't think so.
Bunny, tumbling leaf, a squirrel who's — oh
joy — actually scared. Sniff the wind, thenI'm off again, muck, pond, ditch, residue
of any thrillingly dead thing. And you?
Either you're sunk in the past, half our walk,
thinking of what you never can bring back,or else you're off in some fog concerning
— tomorrow, is that what you call it? My work:
to unsnare time's warp (and woof!), retrieving,
my haze-headed friend, you. This shining bark,
a Zen master's bronzy gong, calls you here,
entirely, now: bow-wow, bow-wow, bow-wow.
(From "Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems," HarperCollins, 2008)
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