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Being the first class to graduate from any educational institution is a big thing. And it is is certainly true with the Class of 2025 of the Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine (TTUSVM) in Amarillo, who will become the school’s first full-fledged veterinarians this weekend.
The students have been through four years of classes, at a graduate level, to reach the brass ring, becoming a DVM in the area they have chosen. The program emphasizes having good relationships with patients and how to handle difficult encounters, learning how to communicate and work with clients, working through difficult scenarios, a skill that has been missing in many medical learning facilities…