We want to give a big thank you to everyone that came out to our last general meeting and participated in the voting for the new amendment! We also want to welcome the new members of our E-board and Junior Delegate that will start their positions in Spring 2015!
President: Brendan Sullivan
President Elect: Megan Johnson
Vice President: Aki Otomo
Treasurer: Greeshma Hedge
Secretary: Sara Alessi
Senior Delegate: Nicole Crupi
Junior Delegate: Ori Eizenberg
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Community Outreach Teaching Excellence Award
The award is intended for students to publicly acknowledge how faculty members, clinicians, and others engaged in the veterinary field have gone above and beyond their responsibilities to interact and make a difference in the local and/or global community as a servant leader.
The winner will receive $300, complete funding for travel expenses to the SAVMA Symposium in 2015, and an official award that will be presented to them publicly at the farewell dinner during SAVMA symposium. Also, the author of the winning application will receive $125!
The deadline is MONDAY, DECEMBER 1ST! Get your applications in now! Access the application from the Google Docs link below!
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
SAVMA Education and Professional Development Committee
Economic Issues Essay Contest
I am pleased to be sending out the Economic Issues Essay Contest prompt for this year from the Education and Professional Development Committee. There are two $250 awards. The essay prompt is a great way to start thinking about how to increase feline traffic at your veterinary clinic, as well as possibly winning some money! Please forward to the students at your school.
Submissions are due by Monday, January 5th, 2015.
Please send them to savma.epdc@gmail.com with Economic Issues 2015 as the subject.
Vet Gazette Logo Competition and Call for Submissions!
The Vet Gazette is beyond excited to announce our next creative endeavor!!
Do you love coming up with new ideas? Are you good with graphic design or illustration? We want YOU, our SAVMA members, to design a logo for The Vet Gazette!!!!
We are offering $200 to the winning design that will be displayed on our website and on our Facebook page as the permanent profile picture. Right now you’re probably wondering, “What should I create?” That’s for you to decide! All we at TVG ask is that the design incorporates SAVMA. I know that seems vague, but that’s exactly the point! We want you – our SAVMA members – to decide what The Vet Gazette means and how our logo should look.
We are offering $200 to the winning design that will be displayed on our website and on our Facebook page as the permanent profile picture. Right now you’re probably wondering, “What should I create?” That’s for you to decide! All we at TVG ask is that the design incorporates SAVMA. I know that seems vague, but that’s exactly the point! We want you – our SAVMA members – to decide what The Vet Gazette means and how our logo should look.
The final winner will be selected by the House of Delegates at the University of Minnesota SAVMA Symposium, March 2015.
Design submissions will be due at the same time as all other submissions for the next Vet Gazette edition due on December 30th. This gives you two months including winter break to create something amazing! Go forth and create!!
Design submissions will be due at the same time as all other submissions for the next Vet Gazette edition due on December 30th. This gives you two months including winter break to create something amazing! Go forth and create!!
It’s also time for the next round of submissions for The Vet Gazette, a blog style publication run by the Student American Veterinary Medical Association (SAVMA) and written entirely by veterinary students. Check it out at www.thevetgazette.com. This email is a call for you to submit something to be published!
Win $$cash$$ prizes for submitting your work to The Gazette. See below for submission categories and send ‘em in!
Deadline for this issue of The Vet Gazette is December 30th at 11:59pm PST
Email me at savma.editor@gmail.com with any questions.
| 1. Cases and Abstracts: Have you worked on a unique clinical case recently? Has your own pet been a puzzling case? Have you been involved with laboratory, clinical, or field research? We’d love to hear about your work! Send us your case report or research abstract - pictures are highly encouraged! The author of the best submission will receive $100; 2 honorable mention recipients are awarded $20 each. |
2. Creative Corner: (your artwork, photos, poetry, and other artistic/creative works) we welcome all arts, limited only by your imagination, and not necessarily vet-school-related. Please title your piece, or if you wish, specify “Untitled.”
If submitting images, please limit yourself to a maximum of three. The creators of the four best submissions each receive a $50 prize. |
| 3. Foot in Mouth Disease: Laughter is the best medicine, so share your funny experiences, jokes, poems, photos, or more with us! In this category, anything goes. The funniest submission will receive $50; 2 honorable mention recipients are awarded $20 each. |
| 4. Life as a Vet Student: Winter break and the holiday season are just around the corner! Does this time of year bring back any memories for you? Dog snag the Thanksgiving turkey? Cat topple over the Christmas tree? Make your dad ill with "vet stories" you assumed were ok dinner convo? We want to hear about it! The author of the best submission will receive $100; 4 honorable mention recipients are awarded $20 each. |
| 5. Trivia: Before receiving a veterinary degree from Cornell in 1984, this large animal veterinarian was a child star in an iconic movie centered around a chocolate factory. Can you guess who it is? Please send us your answer! Two winners with the correct answers will be randomly selected and awarded $20. |
| 6. Experiences: Tell us about some of your best experiences- vet related or not- that have been a meaningful part of your veterinary experience. This could include vacations, externships, employment opportunities, extracurricular activities, and more. How have they helped shape your unique path to a DVM or VMD? Photos encouraged with entries! The author of the two best submissions will receive $50; 2 honorable mention recipients are awarded $20 each. |
| 8. Overall Awards: The individual with the overall best submission will receive an additional $100. The SCAVMA chapter with the most submissions will receive $200. |
| 9. Op-ed pieces and letters to the Editor: Op-Ed The Vet Gazette is now accepting opinion articles on any topic. Please limit submissions to articles written exclusively for The Gazette and not submitted to other publications. The topic is of your choosing, and you make decide to cover a subject that is not addressed in other areas of The Gazette, or make an argument that may disagree with an opinion held by others. In fact, opinions that contrast with those already presented in The Gazette are encouraged. Feel free to include graphics, illustrations or photos that support your point. Pieces will be chosen by their strength of writing and timeliness of topic, as well as relevance to the veterinarycommunity. Letters to the Editor You may also submit a letter to the Editor, which should be written in response to a submissionmade to the most recent issue of The Vet Gazette (articles will be limited to those written in response to submissions published within the previous quarter). Letters that will be selected for publish may elaborate on the pros and cons of a certain submission, and may be in support or against a particular editorial announcement (look for posts from SAVMA committees or tagged as SAVMA News as a source for your letters). |
SAVMA Public Health and Community Outreach Committee Grant
The SAVMA Public Health and Community Outreach Committee awards eight $500 stipends each year to SAVMA members who reach out to populations that are underserved in terms of veterinary care.Four of these stipends will be awarded to SCAVMA members who meet the requirements for an externship carried out between September 1st 2014 and January 31st 2015. Members of our committee will review each application submitted and make a decision based on the application's merit. Once four stipends have been approved, there will be no more available until the next period (i.e. February 1st 2015 to August 31st 2015) when four more stipends will become available.
The stipends are paid in a reimbursement fashion and are not guaranteed (i.e. the stipend is contingent on the successful applicant fulfilling the stated requirements). However, if an application is approved and the requirements are subsequently fulfilled, the successful applicant will be awarded the stipend within 30 days of the committee receiving all necessary documentation after completion of the externship.
Stipends may be used to reimburse the student for expenses directly associated with service to an underserved population, including but not necessarily limited to travel, housing, and supplies associated with the service.
Here is a link to the online application form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1FVneA8-WHpJknvsnUaktMkdaDFOb0ImHppdl0F8uPyg/viewform
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