Career Pathways & Mentoring

 

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CAREER PATHWAYS COMMITTEE PURPOSE

The purpose of the Career Pathways Committee (CPC) is to develop and implement an outreach program to veterinary medical students and veterinarians outside the field of laboratory animal medicine. The goal is to increase the number of laboratory animal veterinarians in Biomedical Research.

 

CONSIDERING A CAREER IN LABORATORY ANIMAL MEDICINE?

Veterinary and Pre-Veterinary Student Opportunities

 

 

Opportunities for Veterinarians

 

 

ARE YOU A LABORATORY ANIMAL VETERINARIAN INTERESTED IN EDUCATING OTHERS ABOUT THE FIELD OF LABORATORY ANIMAL MEDICINE?

Power Point Presentation Templates

  1. LAM Overview for Clinical Vets [5.35MB PPT] 
  2. LAM Overview for Vet Students [5.39MB PPT]
  3. Biomedical Research Career Opportunities for Veterinarians [10.9MB PPT]

Informational Templates/Pamphlets

ACLAM – ASLAP Joint Initiatives

Veterinary School Luncheon Series

ASLAP and ACLAM work together each year to provide a lecture or round table discussion focused on careers in laboratory animal medicine. Generally ACLAM covers the cost of food for these events. The goal of this program is to have an event at each veterinary school in the United States and Canada one time every 3 years. Since 2006, this program has supported events at Ontario Veterinary College, Purdue University, Oregon State University, Tufts University, University of Saskatchewan, University of Tennessee, University of Wisconsin, Virginia Tech University of Maryland, University of Prince Edward Island and others. These programs rely heavily on the ASLAP Student Liaisons to facilitate setting up these programs.   For information or to volunteer please contact Alan Brady: agbrady@mdanderson.org

 

Merial NIH National Scholars Veterinary Symposium

The next Symposium will be held at the University of Georgia, August 5-8, 2010 and ACLAM will again sponsor a booth and several talks. For more information please see http://www.merialscholars.com/


SAVMA Symposium (Student Chapter of the American Veterinary Medical Association)


For information pertaining to this organization as well as the annual meeting, please see http://www.avma.org/savma/


SCVMA (Student Canadian Veterinary Medical Association Annual Meeting)


For information pertaining to this organization as well as the annual meeting, please see http://canadianveterinarians.net


Pre-Veterinary Symposium

 

For information pertaining to this organization as well as the annual meeting, please see http://www.apvma.us/

 

 

Committee Membership

MENTORING PROGRAM

 

ACLAM’s Mentoring Committee is committed to implementing and sustaining a mentoring program.  The overall program objective is to recruit veterinarians into laboratory animal medicine as a means of addressing the national shortage of laboratory animal veterinarians needed in Biomedical Research with a secondary objective of providing guidance and support to those already within the laboratory animal medicine specialty.

There are three target populations:

1)   Veterinarians and veterinary students interested in opportunities in laboratory animal medicine [career change]. See Resources for veterinary practitioners [PDF 47KB] or Resources for veterinary students [PDF 42KB]

2)   Veterinarians in the process of preparing to seek ACLAM certification [ACLAM board prep]. See Resources for ACLAM Board Preparation [PDF 61KB] or List of References [PDF 46KB]

3)   Veterinarians in laboratory animal medicine seeking guidance on career building and professional development within this field [career/professional development]. See Resources for Professional Development [PDF 43KB]

The program will function as follows:

Links:

Click here to see the characteristics and expectations for mentors [PDF 18KB]

Click here to see the characteristics and expectations for mentees [PDF 18KB]

Mentor registration form [PDF 307KB]

Mentee registration form [PDF 305KB]

Collaborating organizations:

Association of Primate Veterinarians
American Society of Laboratory Animal Practitioners
Canadian Association of Laboratory Animal Medicine

American Association of Laboratory Animal Science

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