AVMA accepting Congressional Science Fellows applications

Washington

-- The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) is accepting applications for its Congressional Science Fellows.

AVMA fellows provide science-based knowledge and information to the public policy-making process. Additionally, the fellowship program offers veterinarians a wide variety of opportunities to learn how federal public policy is made and to influence outcomes.

Fellows spend one year in Washington, D.C., beginning at the end of August, and receive a stipend plus other reimbursable expenses.

For more information or to apply, contact Dorothy Gray, associate director of the AVMA Governmental Relations Division, at (800) 321-1473, Ext. 3209, or at fellowship@avma.org.

The application deadline for the 2009-2010 AVMA Congressional Science and Executive Branch Fellowship is Feb. 12, 2009.