{"id":3123,"date":"2010-03-19T00:21:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T17:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=3123"},"modified":"2010-03-19T00:21:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T17:21:15","slug":"avma-avmf-to-help-food-animal-veterinarians-pay-off-loans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/avma-avmf-to-help-food-animal-veterinarians-pay-off-loans\/","title":{"rendered":"AVMA, AVMF to help food animal veterinarians pay off loans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>$500,000 will be allotted, thanks to partnership with companies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After Garrett R. Stewart graduates from the Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine this spring, he&#8217;ll go on to be a food animal practitioner in his hometown of Washington, Kan.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll have some company, too, as 28 of the 108 veterinary students who graduated in 2009 from K-State went into food animal or mixed animal practice. Thirty-seven graduates did so in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Compared with what&#8217;s happening nationally, however, Stewart is considered a rarity.<\/p>\n<p>Food animal practitioners now make up fewer than 10 percent of the veterinarians in the United States, according to a 2006 study by the Food Supply Veterinary Medicine Coalition, meaning only about 8,900 veterinarians are involved in food animal practice.<\/p>\n<p>A new initiative led by the AVMA is hoping to help reverse this trend. The AVMA\/AVMF Food Animal Veterinarian Recruitment and Retention Program is an economic assistance program that provides student loan debt forgiveness for veterinarians who meet the requirements.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of the pilot program, which officially launches April 1, is to bring more veterinarians back into food animal practice. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avma.org\/onlnews\/javma\/mar10\/100315b.asp\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>$500,000 will be allotted, thanks to partnership with companies After Garrett R. Stewart graduates from the Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine this spring, he&#8217;ll go on to be a food animal practitioner in his hometown of Washington, Kan. He&#8217;ll have some company, too, as 28 of the 108 veterinary students who graduated in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry","category-veterinary-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3124,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions\/3124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}