Travel grant program provides opportunity for 5 residents

The American College of Veterinary Surgeons (ACVS) is now accepting applications for the 2025 ACVS Resident Education Travel Grants. The 5 grant recipients selected for the award will attend this year’s ACVS Surgery Summit to be held October 23-25, 2025, in Seattle, Washington.¹

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The program is funded by the ACVS Foundation and offered in partnership with the Diversify Veterinary Medicine Coalition (DVMC). The program’s goals are to improve access to continuing education opportunities for residents and increase representation of historically underrepresented communities in the veterinary profession while also improving access to quality care and service.^1-3

The ACVS Surgery Summit is the organization’s largest gathering of its membership and provides resident attendees with opportunities to learn and network. Applications to the grant program are due June 1, and winners will be notified on June 19, according to the ACVS.¹

The 5 grants to be awarded will provide winners with complimentary registration for the summit, domestic air transportation with an economy coach ticket, and hotel accommodations. Winners may also be reimbursed for rideshare and meal expenses with the submission of receipts and within a budget and criteria set by the ACVS.² 

The inaugural ACVS Resident Education Travel Grant was offered in 2024 as a pilot program in partnership with the DVMC. Recipients of the 2024 grants attended last year’s ACVS Surgery Summit in Phoenix, Arizona. The 3 winners were small-animal surgery residents Anya M. Morrissey, BVetMed, MRCVS, and Pedro J. Olivencia-Morell, DVM; and large-animal surgery resident Brittany A. Veerasammy, BVM&S, MS, MRCVS.³

References

1. Five Resident Education Travel Grants available—applications due June 1. News release. American College of Veterinary Surgeons. May 2, 2025. Accessed May 6, 2025. https://www.acvs.org/news/five-resident-education-travel-grants-available-applications-due-june-1/
2. ACVS Resident Travel Education Grant. Diversify Veterinary Medicine Coalition. Accessed May 6, 2025. https://diversifyvetmed.org/acvs-surgery-summit/
3. ACVS announces ACVS Resident Education Travel Grant recipients. News release. American College of Veterinary Surgeons. July 17, 2024. Accessed May 6, 2025. https://www.acvs.org/news/acvs-announces-the-acvs-resident-education-travel-grant-recipients/