Abstract
A new service to facilitate career advancement opportunities has been implemented by the American College of Veterinary Pathologists (ACVP)/Society of Toxicologic Pathology (STP) Coalition for Veterinary Pathology Fellows. This service will allow rapid communication of these opportunities between veterinary pathologists in academia, industry, and government, and will be useful to trainees as well as established pathologists.
The American College of Veterinary Pathologists (ACVP)/Society of Toxicologic Pathology (STP) Coalition for Veterinary Pathology Fellows was formed in late 2004 to provide a unified mechanism for the ACVP and STP to solicit and allocate funds to establish new training positions in response to the shortage of well-trained veterinary pathologists. To date, the Coalition has established 29 new training positions (17 anatomic pathology residencies, 3 clinical pathology residencies, and 9 post-residency PhD graduate positions) at 17 different North American training institutions.
While the primary mission of the Coalition remains to fund new training positions, the Coalition recently implemented a service to facilitate career advancement opportunities to further enhance training. This service will allow rapid communication of such opportunities between veterinary pathologists in academia, industry, and government, and will be useful for trainees as well as established pathologists. The service is easy to use—additional details including how to post opportunities on the Coalition website using standardized forms can be found at http://www.vetpathcoalition.org/opportunities and includes; (1) internships for post-doctor of veterinary medicine (DVM) pathology residents, (2) post-doctoral fellowships, (3) sabbaticals, (4) supplemental funding for post-DVM PhD pathology graduate research, (5) recruiting post-DVM PhD pathology graduate students for extramurally funded training positions, and (6) assisting funded foreign veterinarians to apply for North American training. In many cases, this service will be offered free of charge on a first-time basis, allowing users to compare results with other methods they may have used for similar purposes or to initiate new career advancement opportunities.
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