It's the best decision I ever made. But the title that best defines his work is clinical services chief in the PDRC, a research center which renders invaluable services to the poultry industry in Georgia and the other 49 states. About 20 percent of Glisson's time is devoted to teaching two to four students who are earning a master's degree in avian medicine, the degree program which trains the majority of the poultry veterinarians in and out of the United States. In my class they get a chance to use everything they've learned on real-life cases and diagnose what the problem is, how it could have been prevented, how to treat it, what to do next time. We're out in the field almost every day all over north Georgia.
Students come from North America, Latin America, Asia and Australia.
In the class of 2000, we had one student from Ecuador, one from Trinidad and one from Alabama. We're very selective about who we take and we spend a tremendous amount of time with them. It's very intensive hands-on training. There's no program in the world like UGA's master's of avian medicine program, Glisson claims. It was developed here about 30 years ago and is considered the top program of its type anywhere in the world.