Veterinary Workforce Matters: Navigating Accreditation, Collaboration, and Leadership in Organized Veterinary Medicine

The conversation with Dr. Janet Donilon continues our conversation with various topics related to workforce issues in the veterinary profession. The chapters include discussions on the role of AVMA in accrediting new schools, the history and purpose of accreditation, the accreditation process and standards, provisional accreditation and ongoing compliance, the separation of motivation and accreditation, accreditation in a global context, considerations for adding new schools, the long-term impact of new schools on the workforce, challenges of building consistency in state practice acts, the importance of collaboration and communication in organized veterinary medicine, challenges of achieving uniformity in state practice acts, engaging the next generation and future leaders, the role of organized veterinary medicine in collaboration and communication, and the need for mentoring and leadership training.