UGA VetMed, ABAC join forces to build rural Georgia’s veterinary workforce Incentive program will pair undergrads with large animal faculty mentors Maylee Barnes has long dreamed of being a veterinarian.

She began pursuing that dream at the age of 13 when her family relocated to an ailing grandfather’s farm to help manage his herd of beef cattle.

Now a rising junior at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, she plans to return home after vet school to provide needed services to her rural community.

The University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine and ABAC are investing in her success through the Georgia Rural Practice Veterinary Incentive Program.

2, the colleges signed a memorandum of understanding formalizing this collaborative effort to address veterinary workforce shortages in rural Georgia.

The veterinary incentive program is designed to support ABAC under…