Supports the COE, wants to hear opinions from HOD
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July 15, 2010
Accreditation of foreign veterinary schools by the AVMA Council on Education has been in the spotlight ever since this past November when the COE conducted a comprehensive site visit at the National Autonomous University of Mexico School of Veterinary Medicine.
The trip, coinciding with a weak economy and debate over immigration reform, has inadvertently turned the COE's accreditation of foreign veterinary schools into a lightning rod for controversy.
The differences in Association member opinions regarding whether AVMA should continue its role in foreign accreditation were manifest at the AVMA Executive Board meeting June 10-12 in Schaumburg, Ill. Board members held a strategic discussion on the matter and also dealt with two relevant agenda items—a resolution submitted to the AVMA House of Delegates that asks the Association to conduct a benefit-risk analysis of accrediting foreign schools and a recommendation that urged the Association to reaffirm its acceptance of a leadership role in international veterinary medicine.
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