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Cynthia Kathir, a fourth-year student at the, has received the 2018 Simmons Educational Foundation鈥檚 national Business Aptitude Award.

The foundation offers $3,000 college-level awards to one student at all participating veterinary medical schools in North America through its Business Aptitude Program. A single $15,000 national award is made among all of the winners to the student who submits what is judged to be the best response to a business case study.

The national award was presented to Kathir in January at the Veterinary Business Management Association鈥檚 annual meeting.

鈥淐ompleting the college鈥檚 business certificate and staying involved in the VBMA definitely gave me an advantage when competing for this award,鈥� Kathir said. 鈥淭hroughout the courses and clerkships I鈥檝e completed, I鈥檝e been introduced to everything from contract negotiations to managing human resources issues, delving into financial analyses and visiting and critiquing real practices.鈥�

She added that the concept of practice ownership was intimidating before her involvement with VMBA and the business certificate program, but it helped her realize that this is a 鈥渧ery achievable goal as a young veterinarian.鈥�

Kathir is president of the Class of 2018 and will graduate from the UF veterinary medical college in May. She plans to work as a small animal general practitioners after graduation, then to purchase a practice as soon as she is financially able.

鈥淚 also have a passion for shelter medicine and would like to stay involved in the shelter community in some way throughout my career,鈥� Kathir said.

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