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AAVAC News


AAVMC Establishes Guidelines for Internships at Academic Institutions


Washington, D.C., April 12, 2018 ¬– Veterinary intern- ships provide a valuable opportunity for new graduates to gather additional experience and skill in providing clin- ical care. But concerns have been raised about the wide variety of scope and range of quality among the hundreds of internship programs offered throughout academia and the private sector.


To address that problem, the AAVMC has developed a comprehensive set of guidelines designed to bolster and ensure the academic integrity of internship programs. Te guidelines have been endorsed by the American As- sociation of Veterinary Clinicians (AAVC), which oper- ates the Veterinary Internship and Residency Matching Program (VIRMP) in the United States.


Te American Veterinary Medical Association had pre- viously published guidelines for veterinary internships in 2011. Te AAVMC began with these guidelines and looked to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medi- cal Education (ACGME) to establish “best practices” for veterinary medical clinical internship programs.


Te new AAVMC guidelines affirm a core statement previously made in the AVMA guidelines: “Te prima- ry purpose of an internship is to provide an educational program for the intern, rather than a service benefit to the hospital.”


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“Tese guidelines will help to improve the learning experience, advance the quality of clinical internship programs and ultimately train better veterinary practi- tioners,” said AAVMC Chief Executive Officer Andrew T. Maccabe. “We’re grateful to the working group mem- bers for their work, and especially to our colleagues in the AAVC for their contributions and support.”


Te AAVMC took steps to examine clinical internships in academic veterinary medicine following the publication of a January 19, 2017 article in Newsweek magazine that portrayed clinical internships in veterinary medicine as a means of providing inexpensive labor for the sponsoring organizations that provide little educational benefit for in- terns. Te AAVMC’s Internship Guidelines include learning ob- jective language associated with Entrustable Professional Activities (EPA’s), which are incorporated in the AAVMC’s recently introduced Competency-Based Veterinary Edu- cation (CBVE) program. Tey also include recommenda- tions on work hours and climate that are consistent with health and wellness concerns referenced by the ACGME.


Te AAVMC is a nonprofit membership organization working to protect and improve the health and welfare of animals, people and the environment around the world by advancing academic veterinary medicine. Members include 49 accredited veterinary medical colleges in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean Basin, Europe, Aus- tralia and Mexico. 


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