08/16/07 Caine Veterinary Teaching Center

The University of Idaho's Caine Veterinary Teaching Center will celebrate its 30th anniversary next month. Students, faculty, staff, associations and program supporters are invited to the Caldwell Memorial Park band shell for the September 2nd picnic. The Caine center opened its doors in 1977 and more than 15 hundred students have now passed through them. Doctor Marie Bulgin says their main mission is training fourth-year students in the Washington-Oregon-Idaho Regional Veterinary Medical Education program. The center has a large animal program, where practicing vets refer clients to Caine. BULGIN "We have an in house clinic here and we also do a outside practice where we take students out and look at disease issues and management issues that have caused problems on the outside and you know in that way help producers as well as help teach the students." The Idaho legislature pays the tuition each year of eleven Idaho students to attend Washington State University, a total of 44 in all. Before funding cutbacks state money was provided to 15 Idahoans per year. Voice of Idaho Agriculture Bill Scott