Educational and International Activities of the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges

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Educational and International Activities of the
Association of American Veterinary Medical
Colleges

• Meeting on Globalization of Veterinary Medicine
  and International Trade OIE Headquarters, April
  2-4, 2008
• Marguerite Pappaioanou, DVM, MPVM, PhD

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Members of AAVMC

• Voting Members
• 28 Veterinary Colleges in the US
• 3 Veterinary Medical Education Institutions in
  the US
• 5 Veterinary Colleges in Canada
• 9 Departments of Veterinary Science
• 7 Departments of Comparative Medicine
• 3 Veterinary Colleges in the UK
• 1 Veterinary College in New Zealand
• 3 Veterinary Colleges in Australia
• Affiliate Members
• Ross University

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Location of AAVMC Members

• KEY
• Veterinary Medical College
• Depts. of Veterinary Science
• Depts. of Comparative Medicine
• Other Veterinary Medical Educational Institutions

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North American Veterinary Medical Colleges and
Accredited Veterinary Medical Diagnostic
Laboratories

• KEY
• Veterinary Medical College
• Accredited Veterinary Medical Diagnostic
  Laboratory

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Mission of AAVMC

• To improve the quality of life for people and
  animals by
• Advancing veterinary medical education
• Improving animal health and welfare
• Strengthening biomedical research
• Promoting food safety and food security
• Enhancing environmental quality

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How We Achieve our Mission

• Coordinate national international affairs of
  member institutions
• Foster teaching, research, service missions of
  member institutions
• Publish Journal of Veterinary Medical Education
• Interact with other educational and professional
  associations, other non-governmental
  organizations, federal agencies and departments
• Hold an Annual meeting each March
• Hold a Summer meeting in conjunction with AVMA
• Hold a Deans Conference in January
• Sponsor Educational / Research Symposia
• Commission and sponsor special studies
• Advocate for key legislation
• Provide leadership on and carry out high priority
  programs
• Conduct essential work through Committees

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Governance

• Assembly 60 member institutions
• Board of Directors
• Nine elected Directors
• President, President-elect, Secretary, Treasurer,
  Immediate Past President
• Four at-large Directors
• US College of Veterinary Medicine
• Canadian college or school of veterinary medicine
• Department of comparative medicine
• Department of Veterinary Science
• Non-voting members Executive Director and AAVMC
  liaison to NASULGC
• Executive Committee President, President-Elect,
  Past President

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• AAVMC Committees
• Academic Affairs Deans
• Research Deans
• Department Chairs, Heads, Directors
• Advancement
• VMCAS/Admissions
• Animal Care Welfare
• Clinical Programs
• Comparative Data
• Gender Issues
• Multicultural Affairs
• International Affairs
• JVME Editorial Board
• Leadership
• Public Health
• Publications
• Strategic Planning
• Building
• Executive Directors

AAVMC Board of Directors
Executive Director

• AAVMC Task Forces Ad Hoc Groups
• Farm Bill Task Force
• National Recruitment Strategy
• Steering
• Strategic Planning Steering Committee
• Legislative Advisory Panel

Executive Administrative Assistant
Deputy Director
Associate Executive Director for Diversity
JVME Editor
JVME Managing Editor
Director for Governmental Affairs
Director for Academic Research Affairs (Vacant)
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AAVMC Partners

• American Veterinary Medical Association
• Federation of the Associations of Schools of the
  Health Professions (Public Health, Pharmacy,
  Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry, Osteopathy,
  Optometry, etc.)
• Association of Schools of Public Health
• State Veterinarians (US Animal Health
  Association)
• National Association of State Public Health
  Veterinarians
• National Association of State Universities and
  Land Grant Colleges
• AAHA, Banfield The Pet Hospital
• Federal Government-- USDA, HHS, DHS, USAID,
  Others
• International Organizations OIE, FAO, PAHO, WHO,
  WVA
• Industry Sponsors
• Development Banks, Other

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Memberships in Partner Organizations

• FASHP
• Associations for minorities in the health
  professions
• National Association for Biomedical Research
• National Coalition for Food and Agricultural
  Research
• Animal Agriculture Coalition
• US Animal Health Association
• Council for Agricultural Science and Technology
• National Institute for Animal Agriculture
• Research!America
• Others

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AAVMC Assembly Committees

• Constituent Committees
• Associate Deans for Academic Affairs
• Associate Deans for and Directors for Research
  and Graduate Affairs
• Academic Department Chairs and Heads
• Standing Committees
• Admissions, Advancement, Animal Care and Welfare,
  Comparative Data, Clinical Programs, Gender
  Issues, International Affairs, JVME Editorial
  Board, Leadership, Multicultural Affairs,
  National Recruitment Strategy Steering Committee,
  Publications, Public Health, Strategic Planning
• Task Forces/Ad-hoc Committees
• Farm Bill Task Force
• Legislative Advisory Panel
• Strategic Planning Steering Committee

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AAVMC Board Committees

• Building Committee
• Nominations Committee
• Executive Directors Survey Committee

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Liaisons and Joint Committees

• AVMA Committees
• AAVMC/AVMA Joint Committee
• AAVMC liaisons on AVMA Committees
• Council on Education
• Animal Welfare Committee
• Council on International Veterinary Affairs
• Other
• National Commission on Veterinary Economic Issues
  4 Board Members

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AAVMC Priority Programs

• Governmental Affairs Advocacy
• Legislation addressing workforce shortages
  public health, food safety, research, lab animal
  medicine, environmental health
• Appropriations for Debt forgiveness program
• DiVersity Matters
• Development of a Strategic Plan
• Global Initiatives in Veterinary Education (GIVE)
• Association of Schools of Public Health and AAVMC
  Collaboration (One Health)
• NCVEI

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AAVMC Priority ProgramsCommissioned with Partners

• Foresight Report 2007
• National Recruitment Promotion Plan 2007
• Communications Audit 2006-2007
• Critical Needs for Research in Veterinary
  Science, National Research Council 2005
• National Academy of Sciences Study on Assessing
  the Current and Future Workforce Needs in
  Veterinary Medicine --2008

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AAVMC Services

• Veterinary Medical College Application Service (
  6,000 applicants per year)
• Journal of Veterinary Medical Education
• Information provision, exchange, networking
• Comparative Data Report
• Coordination, Staff liaisons to Committees
• Annual meetings and educational Symposia

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Priority Programs/Initiatives Pending Funding

• Leadership / Faculty Development
• Expanded international programs
• Implementation of Recommendations/Follow-up on
  Reports and Studies
• Foresight Report 2007
• Critical Needs for Research in Veterinary
  Science, National Research Council 2005
• Communications Audit 2006-2007
• National Recruitment Promotion Plan 2007
• National Academy of Sciences Study on Assessing
  the Current and Future Workforce Needs in
  Veterinary Medicine --2008

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The Veterinary Workforce

• Companion animal medicine
• Food animal medicine
• Laboratory animal medicine
• Wildlife health and medicine (zoo and free
  ranging)
• Public health emerging infectious diseases
• Environmental health/toxicology
• Disease prevention and control (human, animal,
  FAD)/regulatory medicine
• Emergency response natural disasters, Bio/Ag
  Terrorism
• Pathology
• Biomedical Research
• Industry
• Other

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Current Professional Activity of U.S.
Veterinarians

• Clinical Practice

• 3,000 Veterinarians Working in Public Health at
  the Federal and State Levels

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Need Expressed by AAVMC --

• Determine a vision and future direction for
  academic veterinary medicine (AAVMC) to prepare
  veterinarians for opportunities and possibilities
  that emerge over the next 20 years
• Look at academic veterinary medicine in context
  of
• Veterinary Medicine
• Veterinary Medical Education
• AAVMC

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Foresight Analysis and Report
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Foresight Study The Process95 Professionals

• 21 Challenge questions
• Overall picture
• Global opportunities, meet societal needs
• Education and training
• How to train graduates, how to attract best
  students, required core competencies
• External Factors
• Evolving technologies
• Linkages and Roles
• Clients, corporate entities, universities,
  broader policies
• Public Perception
• Influential factors
• Economics
• Sources of funding for education, employers of
  veterinary medicine

• Eight scenarios
• Doomsday pandemic influenza
• Eradication of zoonotic disease threats
• Global Warming Eco-crisis
• Globalized Google Vets
• Brave new world of modified species
• Fragmented profession
• One Medicine One Health
• Norman Rockwell veterinarian

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Status of Veterinary Medicine

• Environment of veterinary medicine is one of
  change
• Major influences driving changes in society
• Demographic, political environmental disease
  emergence technological economics
• Shortages of veterinarians in key areas to meet
  current and future needs of society and
  veterinary education
• Food-supply veterinary medicine, biomedical
  research, public health, specialties

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Veterinary Medicine --

• Must adapt in preparing veterinarians to respond
  to new needs of society
• Must prepare veterinarians for what might come in
  the future, not just what can be seen now

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Global Society

• Global population increasing rapidly to gt 9.1 B
  people by 2050
• Forest area shrinking
• In 2007, urban populations surpassed rural
  populations
• Water consumption rising greater than twice
  population growth global water shortages
  approaching critical levels
• Increased international trade/food supply for
  people and animals
• Political destablization in more countries
• New pathogens emerging
• Increased travel/disease transmission exceeding
  capacity of disease control measures
• IT flattened globe for increased access to
  information and service
• Consumer spending power in emerging economies
  increasing from 4 to 9 T by 2015
• Environment, technology, agricultural
  development, disease emergence, human-animal
  bond, culture changing rapidly

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Need Veterinarians prepared to--

• Provide leadership in animal health and health
  issues related to human, animal, environmental,
  agricultural sectors
• Prevent, control, treat disease in animals
  (population/herd/flock health)
• Policy dialogue and formulation population
  medicine for animals and people
• Lead the debate on ethics and provide science on
  issues related to animal care and welfare
• Lead in biomedical research
• Work in global/international contexts

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Summary of Discussions

• Status of Veterinarians
• Role in society
• Role in Policy Making
• Leadership, New Skills
• Diversity needs
• Public Perception of veterinarians and veterinary
  medicine
• Education
• Philosophy
• Structure
• Delivery
• Curriculum
• Recruitment and Admissions

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Summary of Discussions - II

• Accreditation and licensure
• Alliances and Partnerships One Health
• Educational
• Government
• Internal professional
• Public health
• Corporate/private sector
• Technical
• Community
• Global
• Technology
• For Education
• For Use by Profession

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Summary of Discussions - III

• Funding, Costs, Revenue
• Lobbying
• Educational Funding
• Tuition Fees
• Research Funding
• Business Models
• Public model
• Urban model
• Rural models
• Corporate models
• General
• Values and Ethics

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Most important principles

• Veterinary medicine must remain relevant to
  changing needs of society
• Vet Med Education responds to needs by expanding
  areas of education required to prepare
  veterinarians of the future
• Expanded areas of focus achieved by identifying
  areas of professional focus leading to DVM
  Centers of Emphasis (per national plan)
• Increase of US graduates in all areas of the
  profession

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Most important principles

• Veterinary medicine must reflect diversity in
  society
• Legislators and policy makers must understand the
  value of veterinary medicine to society and
  actively support the profession with
  legislation/funding
• Veterinary medicine needs to engage with other
  allied health sciences, provide leadership with
  management of zoonotic disease, public health,
  ecosystem health

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Most important principles

• Strategic partnerships and alliances essential
  for academic veterinary medicine success in
  providing expanded educational process new areas
  of focus
• Modification of licensing system for graduate
  veterinarians accreditation standards for CVMs
  are fundamental to acceptance and implementation
  of required academic changes
• Opportunity for veterinary medicine to capitalize
  on IT for delivery of education and veterinary
  services (eg, analytical work, research,
  diagnostic sciences, therapy)

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• Educational Program/
• Colleges

Changes in Veterinary Medical Education

• Licensure
• Government

• Accreditation/
• AVMA

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Future Direction of VME

• Responsive, flexible veterinary educational
  system
• Without increasing length of program, difficult
  to provide requirement to meet all anticipated
  needs
• Defined areas of foci with pathways all leading
  to DVM degree
• CVM need to identify areas of focus develop and
  contribute to national plan
• Centers of Excellence may need more than one
  institution participating
• Accreditation altered to allow focused
  educational delivery in some areas but no
  delivery in other areas
• Licensure would recognize competency in different
  areas of focus

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One Scenario forAreas of Focus Concept
Pre-Vet Two-year prerequisite training with
standardized, defined specifications
Standardized two-year core program provided in
all CVMs
Either/or
Two-year program emphasizing comparative medicine
and leading to DVM degree
Two-year program in an area of professional focus
leading to a DVM with specified professional
focus degree
One year program in an area of professional focus
leading to a DVM with specified professional
focus degree
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Key Issues With Expansion of Training

• Definition of a veterinarian shared vision and
  assuring public of competencies
• Core Competencies
• Competencies for Areas of focus
• Curriculum, training
• Accreditation of College
• Licensure of individual veterinarians re area of
  focus
• Time to degree
• Cost
• Recruitment
• Post Graduate Education
• Continuing Education / Transitions

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Partners

• AAVMC
• AVMA
• Society of State Veterinary Medical Association
  Executives
• American Board of Veterinary Specialties
• American Association of Veterinary State Boards
• Association of Schools of Public Health
• Others

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10 Key of 45 Recommendations

• AAVMC as lead
• Achieve consensus on need for expanded
  educational program, on need for limited
  licensure
• Develop a national strategic plan that individual
  colleges will use to develop specific strategic
  plans
• Develop a plan to reduce student debt
• Develop opportunities for CE for veterinarians
  seeking to change careers/licensure with new
  professional focus
• Capitalize on new technology to provide distance
  ed
• Pursue with the NIH, establishment of an
  Institute of Comparative Medicine
• Monitor ongoing changes in society, political
  systems, environment, disease to ensure areas of
  professional focus meet societal needs
• Am Assoc of Vet State Boards and state
  professional associations address limited
  licensure
• Accreditation limited to requirements to teach
  core program plus areas of professional focus
  offered at that college (AVMA)
• AAVMC, AVMA, CVMA speak with unified voice

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AAVMC Global Health Activities

• Partnering and collaboration with veterinary
  medical educational institutions in developed and
  developing countries
• Two-way exchange of faculty and students
• Education and cultural exchange
• Collaborative research
• Capacity Building/ Training

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Global Initiatives in Veterinary Education

• A program to strengthen veterinary colleges in
  developing countries
• Provides curricular materials, journal
  subscriptions, distant learning modules, short
  courses, faculty and student exchanges,
  sabbatical opportunities
• Promotes global perspectives, intercultural
  understanding, knowledge of exotic animal
  diseases
• Encourages long term, mutually beneficial,
  meaningful relationships
• Multiple faculty, staff, and students
• North American Institutions and carefully
  selected foreign companion colleges

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GIVE Program Basics

• Partner colleges
• Nominated by member institutions
• Recommended by International Affairs Committee
• Approved by AAVMC Board of Directors
• Cooperating Organizations
• AVMA
• US Army Veterinary Corps
• NIAA
• USAHA
• Five Agencies in USDA
• Funding to cover travel, meals, lodging of
  participants
• AVMA and AAVMC matching funds, USAID

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Examples of Collaborative Activities

• Training in epidemiology, surveillance, disease
  prevention and control, food safety, public
  health
• Clinical skills
• Avian influenza, poultry diseases
• Bovine, swine diseases
• Strengthening laboratory capacity, diagnostics
• Aquatic animal medicine
• Wildlife health
• Infectious zoonotic diseases-- TB, brucellosis
• Environmental health
• Small animal medicine, oncology

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Countries

• GIVE Countries

• Other Countries

• Afghanistan, Iraq
• Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana
• Uruguay, Costa Rica
• Hungary
• Indonesia
• S Korea
• Republic of Georgia
• Bosnia, Herzogovinia, Albania
• Kyrgyzstan
• Ireland
• Germany
• More

• Chile
• India
• Nepal
• Thailand
• Mexico
• China
• Brazil

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New!!School for Global Animal HealthWashington
State University

• 25 M from Gates Foundation 10 M matching funds
• Focus on human-animal links
• Vaccines development and deployment
• Vector borne diseases of livestock in Africa,
  Asia, Latin America
• Emerging pathogen and disease detection
• Diagnostics, epidemiology
• Control of zoonotic disease transmission
• Vaccination and other strategies to control
  global infectious diseases that affect animals
  and humans

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Summary

• AAVMC is committed to
• Excellence in education and research and
  providing leadership in these areas
• Achieving diversity across the profession
• Strengthening veterinary infrastructure in the US
  and internationally
• International activities, collaboration, capacity
  building
• Collaboration with educational, professional,
  government, non-governmental partners from the
  public and private sectors, national and
  international, allied health and agricultural
  institutions and partners, other partners
• Providing leadership and service to the
  profession and its members
• Achieving improved human and animal health and
  well being through its programs, initiatives,
  accomplishments of its faculty and graduates!

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US Veterinary Colleges withDual DVM / MPH
Programs

• Auburn University
• Colorado State University
• Iowa State University
• Kansas State University
• Michigan State University
• North Carolina State Univ.
• The Ohio State University
• Texas A M
• Kansas State University

• Tufts University
• UC Davis
• University of Georgia
• University of IL/Urbana-Champaign
• University of Minnesota
• University of Tennessee
• University of Wisconsin
• Virginia-Maryland Regional College