VetTalks | a joint project of WikiVet & IVSA Standing Committee on Veterinary Education

Introduction to VET Talks

About IVSA/SCoVE

IVSA Standing Committee on Veterinary Education (SCoVE) is a recent standing committee of

International Veterinary Students’ Association (IVSA) founded in August 2014, the role of

which is to educate and provide free knowledge to veterinary students throughout the world.

About WikiVet

WikiVet is a collaborative initiative involving UK veterinary schools with support from a

number of commercial and government sponsors, established in 2007 to provide online

access to a comprehensive veterinary curriculum.

The project

VetTalks is an upcoming project started in 2014 jointly directed by IVSA/SCoVE and WikiVet,

as well as RVC support. VetTalks are online lectures inspired by TEDTalks within a veterinary

form, which are going to be provided free to the veterinary students -and not only- throughout

the world. The lectures are going to be recorder by outstanding speakers/lecturers/academics

suggested by students. The topic is recommended to be extraordinary or neglected within

veterinary universe, but also all interesting topics are welcome.

The scope

The scope is summed up at three axes:

Provide Free knowledge to vet

students of the world

Give this unique opportunity

share knowledge from all over the

world

Highlight outstanding lecturers

suggested by students