Implementation of NAVMEC recommendations is an essential but long process.
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Woodrow Wilson once said, "It is easier to change the location of a cemetery than to change the school curriculum." The fact that this quote came up no less than three times at the third and final North American Veterinary Medical Education Consortium meeting reinforces the arduous task before the board and the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges.
The July 14-16 meeting at the Oquendo Center for Clinical Education in Las Vegas had the most ambitious agenda of the meetings to date. Nearly 200 participants were asked to synthesize information from the first two meetings; discuss the current state of accreditation, testing, and licensure and create recommendations for change; and, ultimately, come up with ways to implement recommendations that come from NAVMEC.
"We're going to create our own destiny for the profession. We have all aspects of veterinary medicine to help formulate those opinions and, hopefully, we can take those and move them forward," said Dr. Bennie I. Osburn, dean of the University of California-Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and chair of the NAVMEC board of directors.
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