VIN News Service

1 week ago | news.vin.com | Lisa Wogan

States want their own veterinary schools, judging by recent efforts to start new programs in the United States. The latest aspirant is Nevada, where Roseman University of Health Sciences announced this week that it has notified the country's accreditor of veterinary education that it intends to initiate planning for a program. Roseman joins nine other institutions that are developing schools, five of which would be firsts in the states of Arkansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Montana and South Carolina.

1 week ago | news.vin.com | Lisa Wogan

Lincoln Memorial University, which has a veterinary school that was recently put on accreditation probation, is suing the American Veterinary Medical Association, charging that it's engaging in "anticompetitive accreditation practices." The complaint, filed today in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, asserts that "the AVMA's members have engaged in a conspiracy to control, manipulate, and reduce new competition in the face of an existing market shortage of...

2 weeks ago | news.vin.com | Lisa Wogan

Overnight last Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Dr. Amanda Mason saw 17 patients at a veterinary hospital in Sequim, a small city on the remote Olympic Peninsula of Washington state. That may not seem like a big deal, but the mere fact that the veterinary clinic was accepting patients long after most residents were tucked in bed was groundbreaking.

1 month ago | news.vin.com | Lena Beck

A 15-year-old federal program intended to draw veterinarians to rural regions in the United States deemed short on care is not accepting new candidates while it undergoes a review by the Trump administration. The application period for the Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program, or VMLRP, typically closes in April each year. This year, as of the last week in May, it has yet to open.

1 month ago | news.vin.com | Lisa Wogan

Acupuncture_dog.jpeg - Caption. [Optional] A group of acupuncture veterinarians is making a third bid for specialty recognition in the United States, guided by the view that acceptance of acupuncture in human and veterinary medicine has advanced enough since their last effort a decade ago to make the attempt successful. Some veterinarians who perform embryo transfer, a reproduction technique, also are seeking specialty recognition, in their case for the first time.