The Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program (VMLRP)


 The VMLRP will pay up to $25,000 each year towards qualified educational loans of eligible veterinarians who agree to serve in a NIFA designated veterinarian shortage situations for a period of three years. To learn more about the VMLRP, click on the link below:


http://www.csrees.usda.gov/nea/animals/in_focus/an_health_if_vmlrp.html


Kentucky has four shortage areas that qualify for the loan repayment program for veterinarians doing at least 30% food animal practice.   Those areas are shown on the map at the link below:


http://www.csrees.usda.gov/nea/animals/in_focus/vmlrp/vmlrp_shortage_situation_kentucky.html


 Applications for this loan repayment program are due by June 30, 2010.