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Love farmers, too: dean's plan to get vets to go bush
12 Sep 2003
The outgoing dean of veterinary science at Sydney University, Dr Reuben Rose, says female vets marrying farmers is one of the few things that can keep his former students where they are most needed: helping Australia's $14 billion-a-year livestock industry. Eighty-five per cent of veterinary science students are now women, compared with 35 per cent when Dr Rose started lecturing. In those days the men didn't mind working in the country with large animals. Now most of his graduates would rather stay on the coast, working with cats and dogs.
Dr Rose half-jokingly suggests that one way to get more of today's vets to work in the bush would be to start a rural dating agency.
Dr Rose is joining Meat and Livestock Australia as head of livestock production innovation. He says genomics will change the face of the livestock industry, but the commercial benefits may still be up to 20 years away.
Sydney Morning Herald, 12/9/03.
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