View the official proceedings from the 2024 summer meeting of the AVMA House of Delegates.

Colorado’s Proposition 129 would fundamentally change the way the veterinary profession operates, as currently only veterinarians can diagnose, create…

Telehealth and telemedicine FAQs

Creating a veterinary midlevel position (MLP) is neither a sufficiently targeted nor practical approach to address existing workforce issues. More…

Our veterinary patients deserve high-quality care. Colorado’s proposed Veterinary Professional Associate (VPA) would lower the standard for veterinary…

While no VCPR is needed to give teleadvice or perform teletriage, telemedicine requires one. Here’s why it’s critical the VCPR be established in…

Colorado Proposition #129 will ask Colorado voters this November whether the state should establish the position of veterinary professional associate…

Steven Feldman, Human Animal Bond Research Institute (HABRI) president, moderated the session “International Steering Group on Pets and Housing…

AVMA leaders discussed professional liability concerns and related issues Thursday during the AVMA House of Delegates’ (HOD) Veterinary Information…

The AVMA is working diligently on preserving practitioners’ ability to exercise their professional judgement and prepare for the future. In addition…

Understand the requirements for developing and maintaining a program of veterinary care when serving as attending veterinarian to commercial dog…

One way for veterinarians to expand our impact to future generations of animals is to become an attending veterinarian for commercial dog breeders.

The AVMA House of Delegates (HOD) will vote on accepting revised versions of a policy on the humane transport of livestock and the Principles of…

In April, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture published its Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program…

International travel can be exciting. For animal health professionals, it also comes with unique risks of spreading animal and zoonotic diseases.…

The American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) is taking steps to address the future of equine practice by improving compensation, emergency…

Legislators are seeking to remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)…

Recent AVMA research indicates that pet owners would not welcome creation of a “midlevel” veterinary position functioning between the credentialed…

Two proposals for change in the veterinary profession—the idea of a midlevel position (MLP) that would overlap the roles of the veterinarian and…

To help mitigate employee attrition and increase retention, Frederic Ouedraogo, PhD, an AVMA senior economist and associate director in the Veterinary…

Roughly 11,000 veterinary practices each year experience a cyberattack, and with just over 800,000 complaints of suspected internet crime in 2022,…

In response to the devastating fires on the island of Maui, the American Veterinary Medical Foundation – the philanthropic arm of the American…

Broadening nonveterinarians' scope of practice would compromise the quality of veterinary care, thus threatening animal and public health, according…

Drs. Joseph H. Kinnarney and Thomas F. Meyer received recognition for their contributions to the AVMA Trust during the President’s Reception July 14…

With illicit xylazine increasingly showing up in street drugs that pose grave risks to human users, government policymakers are discussing making it a…