By Rose Krzton-Presson
Murray, KY – Graduating veterinarians who plan to practice with large animals in Kentucky have just a week left to apply for an incentive program to help subsidize student loan payments.
The Kentucky Large/Food Animal Veterinary Inventive Program is an effort to help increase the number of young vets practicing in the large animal field. This is the third year for the program administered by the Kentucky Farm Bureau Education Foundation. KFB President Mark Haney says the program encourages graduates to work with large animals in rural areas of the state.
"We were still having the same number of graduates that attended veterinary schools but they were choosing to come back home and center their practice on small animals."
The program awards up to $18,000 a year to veterinary graduates planning on working with large animals to help pay back their student loans. Haney says they receive about a dozen applicants a year and hope to raise that number. For more information on this program, visit www.kyfb.com.