| Summary: | "The North American Veterinary Medical Education Consortium (NAVMEC) Board of Directors acknowledges and congratulates the North American schools and colleges of veterinary medicine (CVMs) for their long history of producing high-quality veterinarians to serve North America and the entire world. Recognizing the global context within which we now work, we applaud the CVMs for their continuous innovative approaches to ensuring quality veterinary medical education, and encourage them to devote additional effort and attention to creating and achieving a vision to guide veterinary medical education for the next 20 years and beyond, and to prepare a veterinary work-force able to meet changing societal needs. This new vision, which addresses a heightened level of social responsibility, considers and meets societal needs, and embraces shared technological advances and partnerships, positions the CVMs to be recognized as influential leaders in matters related to animal, human, and ecosystem health. This vision promotes an externally focused profession with boundary-expanding initiatives, encourages interdependency with partners and stake-holders, and sets the profession, and its academic leaders, on a path toward sustained economic stability. This kind of progressive vision will spark a new public awareness of the critical contributions that the CVMs make to 21st-century society. We believe that the NAVMEC report and its recommendations can provide the momentum to help make this vision become a reality"--Page 2.
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