Description: Conservet offers an externship in Conservation Medicine and One Health for veterinary students and veterinarians, as well as students and professionals in public health, ecology and allied specialties.
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Conservet offers an externship in Conservation Medicine and One Health for veterinary students and veterinarians, as well as students and professionals in public health, ecology and allied specialties. Conservation Medicine, also known as One Health, is an emerging professional discipline that explores the dynamic interface between animal, human and environmental health from both regional and global perspectives.
Conservet is an experiential on-site externship in a montane forest ecosystem of rural Costa Rica that places students in the center of a dynamic, complex ecosystem where the intricacies of regional and global environmental functions and services are studied, along with the consequences that can occur when natural processes are disrupted.
Conservet externship participants are oriented toward the basic principles of ecologic (One Health) medicine and veterinary ecology, with an emphasis on the root causes of health dysfunction , some of which are: