Hone your figuring out of animal welfare rules, at the side of your essential considering and evaluate abilities, at AVMA’s spring digital Animal Welfare Evaluate Contest®, arising this April.
This one-of-a-kind match will happen on-line Saturday-Sunday, April 20-21, 2024. AVMA contributors can join to take part for simply $40 and might be eligible to obtain CE credit score. Veterinary technicians who’re contributors of the Nationwide Affiliation of Veterinary Technicians in American (NAVTA) may participate.
The Animal Welfare Evaluate Contest—sometimes called AWJAC—is a singular match that is helping each scholars and veterinary pros discover the intricacies of welfare problems that have an effect on animals used for human functions—together with agriculture, analysis, and companionship. Contributors evaluate identical eventualities involving animals to decide which situation higher helps and protects the animals’ welfare, then provide their findings to a professional pass judgement on.
Scholars compete in 4 divisions: veterinary, graduate, undergraduate senior, and undergraduate junior. Veterinarians and veterinary technicians do not compete for awards, however are differently complete members—comparing the eventualities, presenting oral checks, and receiving rankings.
The April match will characteristic one situation in keeping with day. In each and every case, members will assess welfare because it relates to all sides of the animals’ lives, together with delivery, housing, well being, manufacturing, and extra.
Displays on housing machine control and animal welfare of sows, laying hens, breeding canine, and laboratory mice might be presented on a daily basis following the situation and checks.
Be informed extra, see the tentative agenda, view previous eventualities, and sign in on-line at awjac.org. Registration closes April 10.