About Food Supply Veterinary Medicine

What is FSVM?

Veterinary shortage maps

How you can help

FSVM in your state

Opportunities for students and tools for faculty

Tools for state associations, allied partners and industry

Studies and statistics

Media coverage

Careers in FSVM

Recognition of FSVM Coalition

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Studies have indicated that an existing shortage in food supply veterinarians is expected to grow even more severe in the future, but you can help us change that outlook. Through your individual grassroots efforts and by working locally and within your state, you can help turn the tide. Some ways you can help include advocating for programs helping food supply veterinarians and their businesses, relaying your concerns to your Congressman or Senator, telling your friends about the shortage, and writing letters to the editor:

Food Supply Veterinary Medicine, Part II: A Day in the Life of a Food Supply Veterinarian There's no such thing as "same old, same old" in food supply veterinary medicine. It's a new day, and new challenges await.

Veterinarians and veterinary medical students: Find a career for yourself in food supply veterinary medicine

• Veterinary Career Center
  
  
• AVMA Career Brochures

Learn more about programs that can help reduce the shortage of food supply veterinarians

• The Long and Short of Loan Repayment Programs
  
  

Advocate for programs that help veterinarians go into this field

• AVMA Congressional Advocacy Network (AVMA CAN)
  
  
• AVMA's Keep Our Food Safe site

Teachers: share food supply veterinary medical information with your students

• AVMA Classroom Career Poster (Grades K-12)
  
  
• AVMA Career DVD (Grades 6-12)
  
  
• Lesson guides and activities (Grades 4-6)
  
  
• Other Educator Resources from AVMA (Grades K-12)
  
  
• AVMA TV videos about the need for food supply veterinarians (Grades 6-12)
  
  

External resources

• The Case of the Missing Vets (A wonderfully produced, highly educational class project by "Detective Kate," a fourth-grade student from Texas.)
  
  

Share your food supply veterinary medical story with us
Email us and we will keep your story for possible future use in AVMA communications/materials.

Food supply veterinarians: mentor a student

• American Association of Swine Veterinarians Foundation/National Pork Industry Foundation
  
  
• Academy of Rural Veterinarians Mentorship Opportunities

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