[login with your AVMA member ID# (username) and case-sensitive last name (password)]
Committee descriptions follow so that members can learn about the committees in order to choose one on which they would like to serve.
HOW TO BECOME A SCAVMA MEMBER IN GOOD STANDING
- Pay annual $35 membership dues.
- Serve on a SCAVMA Committee for two years and fulfill delegated duties.
- Participate in the Spring Fundraising Event.
- Attend SCAVMA meetings.
- Must be a member for the last two years prior to graduation in order to attain maximum benefits of the AVMA.
SCAVMA Membership Benefits
Eligible for the Following AVMA Benefits:
- SCAVMA subscription rates to the Journal of the AVMA (JAVMA) and the American Journal of Veterinary Research (AJVR)
- JAVMA for $40/yr
- AJVR for $40/yr
- Free advanced registration to the annual AVMA meeting, and reduced registration for all other AVMA symposiums.
- Access to the AVMA Auxiliary Student Loan Fund (up to $8000) as well as the AVM Foundation scholarship
- Health, accident, life, and professional liability insurance through the AVMA Insurance Trust.
- For AVMA Group and Life Insurance call 1-800-621-6360
- For AVMA Professional Liability Insurance Trust call 1-800-228-7548
- AVMA's Placement Service/Career Counseling
- Provides job listings and allows you to post your resume for worldwide exposure.
- Provides listings of post-graduate programs, externships, and internships - private, public, and corporate.
- Has information on starting salaries and benefits, how to evaluate your first practice position, demographics on the profession, and the variety of veterinary careers.
- Can counsel you on how to negotiate salary and benefits.
- Computer-linked communication with other veterinary school students through the Network of Animal Health (NOAH).
- Reduced membership rates to the AVMA for the following 2 years after graduation (saving up to $175 over 3 years).
- Savings of 8% off of what you are currently paying for home or car insurance.
Eligible for the Following Student AVMA Benefits
- Annual Student AVMA Educational Symposium
- Free subscription to The Vet Gazette (journal of the Student AVMA)
- Funds for the Navajo Indian Reservation externship
- IVSA student-abroad exchange program
- Scholarships, grants, and other monetary opportunities
- Information concerning relevant veterinary issues through your Student AVMA Delegate
Eligible for the Following Tufts SCAVMA Benefits
- Free registration and hotel accomodations for SAVMA symposium
- V'12: scrub top, retractable ID clip, composites of the other three classes
- V'11: set of scrubs, access to suture for principles of surgery class, composite of incoming first year class
- V'10: set of scrubs, composite of incoming first year class
- V'09: clipboard/calculator combo device, composite of incoming first year class
- Information about scholarships and other monetary opportunities delivered directly from the Tufts SAVMA delegates
|
