The folks in our Education and Research Division’s Center for Veterinary Medical Education Accreditation will be logging quite a few miles into the foreseeable future as they visit veterinary technician programs around the country that are either seeking first-time accreditation or reaccreditation of their vet-tech programs.
This year, they’ll travel to 37 different programs, and they’ll [...]
Categories: Advocacy, Education and Student Matters, General, Leadership, Outreach, Veterinarian Resources, Veterinary Economics, Veterinary Technicians, Workforce Issues
Do you Tweet? If you’re a fan of Twitter, you know that the free social networking service can have real value. It’s a great way to stay connected with what matters most to you and to get news and information as it happens, right-now.
We recognized Twitter’s usefulness back in the spring of 2009 when we [...]
Categories: Advocacy, Animal Health, Animal Welfare, Companion Animals, Disaster Preparedness, Executive Board, Food Animals, General, JAVMA, Leadership, Outreach, Veterinarian Resources, Veterinary Technicians
There’s a lot going on in your world, and it sure isn’t easy keeping up with all the news stories related to veterinary medicine. Fear not. The AVMA is here is for you.
When our Communications Division started AVMA News Bytes back in 2005, we wanted to be able to send a daily “media digest” to [...]
Categories: Advocacy, Animal Health, Animal Welfare, Companion Animals, Convention, Councils and Committees, Disaster Preparedness, Education and Student Matters, Food Animals, General, JAVMA, Leadership, Outreach, Policies and Governance, Veterinarian Resources, Veterinary Technicians, Volunteering, Workforce Issues
Sure, it’s only January. And yes, most of the nation has been getting socked lately by a cold wave that has even reached into the Deep South. But summer will come, and with it arrives the 147th AVMA Annual Convention.
This year, we’ll be visiting Atlanta, Ga., where the peaches are heavenly and where Southern Hospitality [...]
Categories: Continuing Education, Convention, General, Veterinarian Resources, Veterinary Technicians
You fill them out on a regular basis, and we want to help make the process a bit easier.
We’re talking about certificates of veterinary inspection, also known – albeit inaccurately – as health certificates. When a client wants to travel with their pet, especially by plane, they have to have one and you have to [...]
Categories: Animal Health, Animal Welfare, Companion Animals, Councils and Committees, Food Animals, General, Veterinarian Resources, Veterinary Technicians
When news broke earlier this month about reported 2009 H1N1 diagnoses in a turkey breeder flock in Virginia, a cheetah at a privately owned animal park in California and two dogs in Beijing, China, we were able to reach thousands of our members through an e-mail alert that provided up-to-date information on what we knew [...]
Categories: Advocacy, Animal Health, Animal Welfare, Companion Animals, General, International Issues, JAVMA, Leadership, Outreach, Veterinarian Resources, Veterinary Technicians, Workforce Issues
Who exactly is the AVMA? You are, of course, and you have lots of stories to tell. That’s why we recently introduced “I am AVMA,” a campaign that allows our members to tell – in their own words – how AVMA membership benefits them and the profession.
We tend to share the benefits of AVMA membership [...]
Categories: Advocacy, Convention, Councils and Committees, Education and Student Matters, Executive Board, General, Leadership, Outreach, Policies and Governance, Veterinarian Resources, Veterinary Technicians, Volunteering
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