A recent survey of members of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) revealed that the values and goals of the association leadership—the Executive Board—are shared by AVMA members.

Over the past four years, AVMA leadership worked to develop a set of five goals to guide the association into the future, emphasizing legislative advocacy, workforce shortages, education, animal welfare, and economic viability. In a survey of membership, members identified four of those five goals as some of their top goals for the future as well.

“It’s nice to see from the Membership Needs Assessment taken in 2007 that the strategic goals are still important to the broad depth of membership, from the students, to government, to academia and all members,” explains Dr. David L. McCrystle, chair of the AVMA Executive Board. “The AVMA is an umbrella organization for a very diverse profession, so this really shows we’ve done well in understanding the needs and values of our members