Texas A&M University: Bonn - Grad Vet Med - Graduate Veterinary Medicine

It was in Europe during the late 18th to the early 20th centuries that modern concepts and practices in both human and veterinary medicine developed, practices that were transplanted to the U.S. and Canada beginning in the early part of the 19th century. Our medical and veterinary medical schools and systems are derived from these European antecedents. The early practitioners of modern veterinary medicine in the U.S. were trained in Europe (initially mostly in France and Germany) and we are living with both the positive and negative consequences of these facts to this day.
Like almost everything else, veterinary medicine in the 21st century will by necessity become an international enterprise. Globalization, in all of its many facets, will impact American veterinarians in some ways that we can now predict and in others that are at this time completely obscure.