Help Host an International Student Exchange!

On behalf of the SAVMA International Veterinary Exchange Committee, we would like to take this opportunity to invite you to participate in a national contest. Currently, the International Veterinary Exchange Committee is trying to update its database of potential U.S. Veterinarian Hosts – those veterinarians who would be interested in hosting an international veterinary student at their clinic.

We would like to involve all schools and IVSA Chapters in increasing the database for the Host Program

and are offering two monetary gifts for the individual student and overall IVSA Chapter (if there is no

current IVSA Chapter funds at the winning school, the SCAVMA Chapter will be awarded the funds) who

provide the most names of potential Host Veterinarians. The individual student who obtains the most

veterinarians for the database will receive a $125 scholarship and the overall IVSA chapter that provides

the most veterinarians to the database will receive a $125 scholarship.

As your fellow students prepare for internships, externships, and mentorships, it would be a perfect

time to encourage all members of IVSA chapters, along with the general student body, to invite

veterinarians to participate in the Host Program.

The process is easy! Contact your SAVMA delegate for more information and to get the forms to provide to interested veterinarians. Those interested veterinarians should fill out the forms completely and send

them back to the International Exchange Officer by email, fax or post.

All names are due to the International Exchange Officer and even though names will be continuously

added to the Host List, the contest will cease on July 1, 2011.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact the International Veterinary Exchange Committee

or the International Exchange Officer. You can find more information at http://www.avma.org/savma/ieo/get-involved.asp.