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departments and spend a week with
each.”
Dr. Leon Scrutchfield, associate
professor of veterinary medicine,
says many students choose to go
back through the clinic after their
initial rotation.
“This is an interesting part of
their education,” Scrutchfield says.
“Everyone really seems to enjoy it.”
James Marek, a senior student
working in the clinic, says working in
the ambulatory section is one of the
most important aspects of veterinary
school.
“The ambulatory part has proba
bly been the most beneficial part of
veterinary school. The clinicians are
more liberal in their teaching,” Ma
rek says. “They allow you to develop
your skills.
“It (veterinary school) is different
than medical school. This is really
the only field experience you’ll get
until you are presented into the real
world.”
Although time spent working for
the clinic is short, students undergo
intensive training, sometimes work
ing up to 60 hours a week.
Field says, “We also have one of
the largest case loads in the country.
We treat around 20,000 animals a
year through the clinic.
“Many colleges don’t have this
privilege because they are locked in
by cities. Their students don’t have
this type of exposure.”
The students call on a clientele of
about 120 farmers and ranchers in a
100-mile radius from A&M, Field
says. Four or five students accom
pany each of the four veterinarians
working in the clinic, he says, travel
ing in trucks specially equipped for
veterinary field work.
“It’s like a private practice,” he
says. “They get to meet the farmer
and rancher, determine the prob
lems he is facing and make the deci
sions and diagnosis. We try to make
it as close to real life as possible.”
Scrutchfield says working on local
farms and ranches gives the students
a taste of what their veterinary pro
fession might be like.
“In the Ambulatory Clinic,”
Scrutchfield says, “students tend to
see more of the routine kinds of
things they will see when they grad
uate and go into practice.
“The cases they see in-house tend
to be more of a referral type — the
more difficult and unusual cases.”
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In addition to providing much-
needed veterinary services to the
farmers and ranchers of the Brazos
Valley, the Texas A&M College of
Veterinary Medicine’s Ambulatory
Clinic allows students to gain hands-
on experience.
The clinic allows students to travel
with veterinarians to help farmers
and ranchers in outlying areas.
"It is the only hands-on field ex
perience they receive before they
move into the large-animal clinic,”
says Dr. Robert Field, director of the
Ambulatory Clinic.
Students work in the clinic as part
of an intensive course of study dur
ing their last year of veterinary
school, Field says.
During their senior year, students
rotate in five-week blocks through
the large- and small-animal clinics.
Areas of study include medicine,
surgery and the ambulatory section,
Field says.
“When they get to field services
the rotation is divided up even fur
ther,” Field says. “They go through
the ambulatory, radiology and other
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal
regulators responsible for savings
and loans said Tuesday, $5 to $8 bil
lion will be needed over the next five
years to help save hundreds of
thrifts in a five-state area.
Roy G. Green, president of the
Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas,
said before a House banking com
mittee, a quick infusion of billions of
dollars into the Federal Savings and
Loan Insurance Corp. is needed to
help the industry revive.
FSLIC is the fund that insures
savings and loan association depos
its. A general accounting office re
port released Tuesday said the fund
is technically insolvent and estimated
that at least $25 billion was needed
to head off a disaster in the industry.
The majority of the industry’s
problems were brought on by a
downturn in oil and agriculture over
the past 18 months.
Green said that of 490 thrifts in a
five-state area under his jurisdiction,
including Texas, 26 to 28 are so far
gone financially that they should be
cast off.
Another 33 percent of the south
ern thrifts were classified as being in
financial trouble but capable of sur
viving. The other states are Missis
sippi, Arkansas, New Mexico and
Louisiana.
Green praised a bill submitted by
Rep. Steve Bartlett, R-Dallas, that
would negate the effect of the drop
in real estate values by permitting in
stitutions to assess property values
over a multi-year cycle rather than at
current market rates.
Walter McAllister, president of
the Texas Savings and Loan League,
said, “Undeniably, there are institu
tions in the states in question that are
dead or dying of self-inflicted
wounds.
“Nevertheless, it is also undenia
ble that there are a great many insti
tutions now experiencing financial
problems in these distressed states
that are guilty of nothing more than
failure to predict the inherendy un
predictable and that have the man
agerial resources, given the time, to
work their way out of their current
problems.”
Green said deregulation of the
thrift industry provided an opportu
nity for some unscrupulous entre
preneurs to buy into the S&L busi
ness and make quick profits.
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