A rotation at the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston is demonstrating to Harvard Medical School students that animals and people share the same environment. Offered for the last three years, Harvard students work alongside zoo veterinarians monitoring animal health and collaborating in diagnoses and treatments.
Source: New York Times (paywall). June 29, 2018. Link. “I would never have predicted that I would spend my final month of medical school performing fetal ultrasounds on a pregnant gorilla, phlebotomizing a 500-pound tapir with hemochromatosis, caring for a meerkat in heart failure, and investing medical mysteries across the animal kingdom.”
INSIGHTS: This article warrants using a free view of The New York Times as med students share their greater understanding of the complexities of veterinary medicine and the similarity of medical and veterinary patients.