Does this count as veterinary experience?

[kasuring]

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I work at a lab running protein assays on dog liver. I work under the supervision of the PI of the lab. The research data will go to making medicine for dogs.
Does this count as veterinary experience? The PI has a PhD in biochemistry.
I know there are a lot of threads about this but my case is slightly different from most cases.

 

[kernel]

I don't think so. My understanding is that for something to count as veterinary experience, it needs to be done under the direct supervision of a licensed veterinarian.

 

[BlackDog17]

I don't think so. My understanding is that for something to count as veterinary experience, it needs to be done under the direct supervision of a licensed veterinarian.

This is correct. 👍

 

[parula]

I think that anything that was under a doctor (Ph.D. or D.V.M.) I put under vet experience but not if it was a Ph.D. candidate. Not sure if it was "right" or not...but I got into multiple vet schools anyways 🙂

 

[cowgirla]

With all the recent and upcoming changes to VMCAS, your best bet is to check directly with them and see what they think

 

[dalmatiandoc17]

VMCAS now has a research category separate from veterinary experience, so it would go there.

 

[Minnerbelle]

With all the recent and upcoming changes to VMCAS, your best bet is to check directly with them and see what they think

+1

Check out the VMCAS thread. There was an announcement about research
Having a category of its own this year so it's totally separate from animal/vet experience or something like that.

 

[gugoodoll]

My understanding was that before this new change (research being a new category), any work done under a DVM or PhD was considered "veterinary".

 

[Frozenshades]

The little chart they have used about determining animal or vet experience just specifies "health professional" though. It never specifically says veterinarian or DVM. I can't recall for sure, but I think I put my work at the veterinary diagnostic lab under a PhD as vet experience; he was one of my LORs as well. Never came up as a problem, so...

 

[Minnerbelle]

Seriously guys, throw whatever was true in previous years out the window and only reference the rules for this year. In the past 3 years, how you define research experience under a phd has changed EVERY year anyway.

 

[ducktoller]

Hi Kasuring! i've got a similar question that was being asked on the facebook page, and i'll relay the reply to you:

Does volunteering in a research lab with animals under supervision of a PHD giving injections and monitoring animals under anesthesia count as veterinary experience or animal experience?
Provided the PhD is in a medical field, you'd list this under veterinary experience. *IF* You were actually doing the research, it would go under the Research experience section

 

[kasuring]

Thanks for replying so quickly! I've only recently started looking into veterinary school and I'm already a third year. My GPA and GRE scores are high but I'm lacking in animal/veterinary experiences so I'm scrambling.