AAEP Webinar: Foreign Veterinary Graduates share their successful pathways to practicing in the US
Recorded On: 10/29/2024
-
Register
- AAEP Lexington Staff - Free!
- AM - Free!
- DLM - Free!
- DM - Free!
- HM - Free!
- IM - Free!
- PP - Free!
- RES - Free!
- RM - Free!
- EM - Free!
- SM - Free!
October 29, 2024: Foreign veterinary school graduates can be a valuable resource to veterinary practices while working to attain licensure in the United States. Identifying routes to employment, clarifying pathways to licensure, and exploring possibilities to streamline the process is the charge of the AAEP’s Foreign Veterinary Graduates Task Force established earlier this year.
Listen as foreign veterinary graduates share their diverse stories about the VISA process; the Educational Commission for Foreign Veterinary Graduates (ECFVG) and the Program for the Assessment of Veterinary Education Equivalence (PAVE) pathways to licensure eligibility in the U.S.; and the job process.
The international panel is composed of Dr. Javier Pérez Quesada (Spain), Dr. Amanda Chitero Silva (Brazil), Dr. Santiago Rodriguez (Colombia), and Foreign Veterinary Graduates Task Force member Dr. Christopher Elliott (Australia).
This webinar is presented by the AAEP Foreign Veterinary Graduates task force.
Key:
Complete
Next
Failed
Available
Locked
Ernie Martinez
Dr. Martinez is a field care veterinarian at Hagyard Equine Medical Institute in Lexington, Ky., where he completed an ambulatory internship after receiving his veterinary degree from Oklahoma State University. Dr. Martinez chairs both the Student Programs Group within the AAEP’s Scientific Review and Editorial Committee as well as the AAEP’s Foreign Veterinary Graduates Task Force.
Chris Elliott
Born and raised in Brisbane, Australia, Dr. Elliott graduated from the University of Queensland School of Veterinary Science in 2007. He is a board-certified specialist in Equine Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation who moved to the U.S. in 2022 and is based at Palm Beach Equine Clinic in Wellington, Fla.
Javier Pérez Quesada
Dr. Quesada is a final-year resident in equine internal medicine at the North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Quesada grew up in the Canary Islands and received his veterinary degree in Spain. He completed a residency in theriogenology in Vienna, Austria, which led to his working in camel reproduction in Dubai, and an equine internship at Liverpool University. He hopes next to complete a residency in equine ophthalmology.
Santiago Rodriguez
Dr. Rodriguez was born and raised in Colombia, and he attended the University of Tolima from 2013-2019. Shortly after graduation, Dr. Rodriguez moved to the U.S. and worked as a vet tech at a practice in Ocala, Fla. He completed the ECFVG program in November 2023 and is currently in a large animal rotating internship at Iowa State University with an end goal of becoming an equine surgeon.
Amanda Chitero Silva
Dr. Silva is a native of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and received her veterinary degree in 2013 from the University of Franca. She interned for three years at Brazos Valley Equine Hospital in Stephenville, Texas, and completed a subsequent internship at Weems and Stephens Equine Hospital in Aubrey, Texas. Silva returned to Brazil in 2019 and worked as an equine field veterinarian in the country before returning to the U.S. in 2023 as a clinical veterinary instructor at North Carolina State University, where she helps run the equine emergency field service.
