Key Facts

Admissions & Recruitment

• Veterinary Medical College Application Service (VMCAS)
• Veterinary Medical School Admission Requirements (VMSAR)
• National Recruitment Strategy
• Profile of Admitted Students Program
• Student Recruitment and Annual Career Fairs

Fostering Educational Excellence

• AAVMC Learn Program
• Veterinary Educator Collaborative (VEC)
• Primary Care Veterinary Educators (PCVE)
• Competency Based Veterinary Education (CBVE)
• AAVMC Internship Guidelines

Accreditation

• Program Support for Council on Education
• AAVMC/AVMA Partnership

Conferences

• Annual Conference and Meeting
• AAVMC Summer Meeting
• Annual Deans Leadership Conference
• Veterinary Educator Collaborative (VEC)
• Primary Care Veterinary Educators (PCVE)
• National Veterinary Scholars Symposium (NVSS)

International Scope & Engagement

• Council for International Veterinary Medical Education (CIVME)

Journal of Veterinary Medical Education (JVME)

• Peer-reviewed Journal Serving Academic Veterinary Medicine
• Print and Online Editions
• Internationally Distributed

Diversity & Inclusion

• Award Winning DiVersity Matters Program
• Iverson Bell Symposium (National and Regional)
• Patricia Lowrie Scholarship  
• Diversity Leadership Scholarship
• Climate Survey
• Diversity and Inclusion on Air Podcast
• Diversity Community Reads Book Club
• Commission for a Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Veterinary Profession
• AAVMC Conference/Symposia Diversity & Inclusion Assessment Tool
• Intentional Organizational Diversity & Inclusion Efforts Assessment Tool

Professional Recognition Awards

• Distinguished Veterinary Teaching Award, Presented by Zoetis
• Excellence in Research Award
• Senator John Melcher, DVM Leadership in Public Policy Award
• Iverson Bell Award
• AAVMC President’s Award for Meritorious Service
• AAVMC Communications Excellence Award
• AAVMC Excellence in Scholarship Fundraising Award

Advocacy & Communications

• Congressional and Executive Agency Meetings
• Engagement with Issue & Advocacy Coalitions
• Advocacy Summit and Congressional Reception
• Veterinary Medicine Caucus
• Strategic Communications Program/Stakeholder Engagement
• AAVMC Connect

Financial Resources & Planning

• Zoetis Veterinary Student Scholarship Program
• Cost Comparison Tool (CCT)
• Veterinary Debt Initiative
• AAVMC’s Career Center
• Veterinary Career Advisor Network (VetCAN)
• Residency and Internship Salary Analysis and Trends

Data Gathering & Analysis

• Comparative Data Report
• Advocacy Survey
• VMCAS Applicant Data
• Collaboration with AVMA Economics Division
• Institutional Research
• Fulfillment of Data Requests

Wellbeing in the Academy & Profession

• Summits and Initiatives
• Collaboration with AVMA and Corporate Partners
• Academic Veterinary Wellbeing Professionals (AVWP)
• Clinician Wellbeing Initiative (Sponsored by Zoetis)
• Accepted Students Wellbeing Course

Leadership Development Program

• Preparing Future Leaders for Academic Veterinary Medicine
• AAVMC Leadership Academy (Sponsored by Elanco)
• PennVet–Wharton Executive Veterinary Leadership Program

Organizational Collaborations

• AVMA/AAVMC Joint Committee
• Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities (APLU)
• Association of American Veterinary Clinicians (AAVC)
• Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH)
• Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC)
• Human-Animal Bond Research Institute (HABRI)
• Association of Veterinary Advancement Professionals (AVAP)
• NAM Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education
• Federation of Associations of Schools in the Health Professions (FASHP)
• Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) One Health Alliance
• Association of Veterinary Technician Educators (AVTE)

One Health & Other Strategic Initiatives

• International One Health Coalition
• One Health Commission
• Antimicrobial Resistance Initiative
• Gene Editing Task Force and Report
• National Institute of Antimicrobial Resistance, Research and Education