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2024 ACVS and ACVS Foundation award recipients announced

The American College of Veterinary Surgeons (ACVS) and the ACVS Foundation announced the recipients of three prestigious awards at the recent 2024 ACVS Surgery Summit in Phoenix, AZ: the ACVS Founders’ Award for Career Achievement, the Al and Carolyn Schiller Distinguished Service Award, and the ACVS Foundation Lynn Wheaton Philanthropy Award.    ACVS Founders’ Award […]

2024-2025 Board of Regents announced

ACVS is pleased to announce the election results for the new president-elect and two new members of the ACVS Board of Regents.   President-elect is Kelly D. Farnsworth, DVM, MS, Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Surgeons (DACVS); large animal regent is Jose M. Garcia-López, VMD, DACVS, Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation; […]

Full report of 2024 Member Needs Assessment available to Diplomates

The findings from the survey offer insight into various demographics of ACVS Diplomates and highlight current professional challenges and future focus areas. They will help determine what benefits ACVS currently provides that are valuable to Diplomates and what benefits ACVS can offer in the future as ACVS evolves to help meet the changing and diverse […]

Information session for first-year residents set for August 28

The ACVS certification team is hosting an information session for first-year residents on Wednesday, August 28, 6:30-7:30 pm (ET). During the information session, ACVS will discuss the certification process and the online certification tracking system (CERT), as well as introduce the ACVS certification team. Two recently board-certified ACVS Diplomates, Haileigh Avellar, DVM, MS, DACVS (Large […]

Diplomates’ priorities made clear with the member needs assessment

The 2024 ACVS member needs assessment made Diplomates’ priorities clear:   connection and community  recognition of the veterinary surgery specialty  resident and Diplomate well-being  These priorities give ACVS direction toward the initiatives, programs, and services to explore for possible implementation. Here is some of what responding Diplomates shared. Many expressed an interest in an online community […]

ACVS and Diplomate commitment to residents continues

To support the College’s strategic plan, ACVS convened in 2023 a working group to propose resident well-being guidelines. The well-being working group is investigating established policies from other organizations with the goal of creating guidelines specific to the needs of ACVS-registered residency training programs and surgery residents. To inform its efforts, the well-being working group […]

2024 ACVS member needs assessment garners exceptionally high participation

Forty-six percent of ACVS Diplomates participated in the recent member needs assessment, a remarkably high response rate according to the Institute for Association and Nonprofit Research, the research firm that conducted the assessment survey on behalf of ACVS.  The exceptional response demonstrates the interest ACVS Diplomates have in the future of the College.   ACVS is […]

ACVIM courses open to ACVS Diplomates and veterinary surgery residents

These two courses offered by the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine are open to ACVS Diplomates and veterinary surgery residents. Follow the links to learn more. A Comprehensive Approach to Enteral Feeding: Why, When and How  Practical Transfusion Medicine