{"id":5204,"date":"2023-04-11T15:29:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T19:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acvs.org\/?p=5204"},"modified":"2023-07-06T17:18:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T21:18:51","slug":"acvs-leadership-participates-in-effort-to-address-small-animal-specialist-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acvs.org\/es\/news\/acvs-leadership-participates-in-effort-to-address-small-animal-specialist-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"ACVS leadership participates in effort to address small animal specialist shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ACVS President Ron McLaughlin, Director of Certification Eric Parente, and CEO Ann Loew recently joined a discussion with other veterinary specialty colleges, associations, practice groups, practitioners, and industry representatives on how to address the critical shortage of small animal veterinary specialists.<\/p>\n<p>The group defined a number of priorities and activities for collective action over time that closely align with ACVS\u2019s current\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/acvs.org\/news\/2022-2027-acvs-strategic-plan-four-objectives-announced-at-business-meeting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strategic plan<\/a>, specifically the objective to update training and certification.<\/p>\n<p>The actions include defining the competencies needed for aspiring applicants to enter a residency program, framing residency training requirements in the context of specialty competencies, and innovating training programs to be more flexible and inclusive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACVS President Ron McLaughlin, Director of Certification Eric Parente, and CEO Ann Loew recently joined a discussion with other veterinary specialty colleges, associations, practice groups, practitioners, and industry representatives on how to address the critical shortage of small animal veterinary specialists. The group defined a number of priorities and activities for collective action over time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[46,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-owners","category-diplomate"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acvs.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acvs.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acvs.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acvs.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acvs.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.acvs.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5205,"href":"https:\/\/www.acvs.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204\/revisions\/5205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acvs.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acvs.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acvs.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}