While the classroom and teaching laboratory components are essential to disseminating the mass quantity of information pertinent to veterinary science, these concepts are best solidified through hands-on experience.  It is a common practice to teach a topic through multiple modes, such as visual, auditory and kinesthetic avenues.  Teachers and professors frequently stress the necessity to utilize all three of these learning styles to reinforce knowledge for long term memory.  It is imperative that veterinary students be able to recall concepts learned in the classroom when assesing and handling a patient.

    The best way to prepare us for our careers in veterinary medicine is to gain more experience, supervised by licensed veterinarians, so that we may be able to gain more confidence and experience handling situations that may not be possible to present or simulate in a laboratory setting.  Additionally, in an outside hospital, students would benefit from more one-on-one teaching, rather than 125 students to 1-6 professors for a given lab period.  This motion would foster students' passion and desire to learn and excel in their field, and allow for younger veterinarians to be more skillful and proficient upon entering practices after graduation.  This in turn, may alleviate the pressure some students feel to take an internship position because they, "Don't feel ready," to practice immediately after veterinary school.  This extra step often causes students to acquire more debt on top of the several hundred thousand average, or at the least, accept pay that is below average for the typical starting veterinarian.