Food saftey residency

[vetmehdi]

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Hi guys, i was wondering what is scope and perspective of food saftey residency offered by CAHFS (The California Animal Health & Food Safety Laboratory System)? Does it credit towards ACVP? Your suggestions would be highly appericiated.

Thanks

 

[WhtsThFrequency]

Hi guys, i was wondering what is scope and perspective of food saftey residency offered by CAHFS (The California Animal Health & Food Safety Laboratory System)? Does it credit towards ACVP? Your suggestions would be highly appericiated.

Thanks

Just finished my path residency and passed ACVP boards - hopefully I can help. 🙂

First off, the food safety program is a fellowship, not a residency. It is only one year.

Not sure what you mean by credit....you need to complete a 3 year accredited pathology residency in order to sit for boards. I highly doubt the necropsy and histology portions in this fellowship would be in-depth enough to prepare you for the board exam anyways (especially since it appears to be almost exclusively food animal focused). It is possible that the fellowship could be used to "count" as a year of residency, but you would have to enter a proper pathology program afterwards and complete 2 more years.

 

[sunshinevet]

Just finished my path residency and passed ACVP boards - hopefully I can help. 🙂

Off topic but a huge CONGRATS to you WTF!!!!!!! Big well done, you are an insanely smart cookie!!! 😀😀😀😀

 

[WhtsThFrequency]

Off topic but a huge CONGRATS to you WTF!!!!!!! Big well done, you are an insanely smart cookie!!! 😀😀😀😀

😳😀 Thanks sunshine.

 

[pouya876]

hi vetmehdi
i am pooya from iran are you irainian? i am veterinarian. i have been here in usa houston texas since 5 month ago.

 

[Butterfly05]

Just finished my path residency and passed ACVP boards - hopefully I can help. 🙂

First off, the food safety program is a fellowship, not a residency. It is only one year.

Not sure what you mean by credit....you need to complete a 3 year accredited pathology residency in order to sit for boards. I highly doubt the necropsy and histology portions in this fellowship would be in-depth enough to prepare you for the board exam anyways (especially since it appears to be almost exclusively food animal focused). It is possible that the fellowship could be used to "count" as a year of residency, but you would have to enter a proper pathology program afterwards and complete 2 more years.

Hey WhtsThFrequency, congrats on your residency 🙂 I have to admit pathology was my dream and still is, but I doubt that will ever happened, since my husband doesn't want to leave a big city :/. Since you answered the question about food residency/fellowship program I was hoping you'll have some suggestions. I'm a foreign vet student, and I ended up in Public health industry (MPH), I was wondering do you know how could I get into food industry?! I had very strong portion of food technology subjects in my vet program, and I liked it. I'm not certified DVM in US, but of course I got my MPH degree in here. Do you maybe know what are some titles that I should look for, and how difficult it would be to get into something like this without certified degree?
Thanks much!

 

[WhtsThFrequency]

Hmmm....admittedly my knowledge lies more with the pathology side of things, but I would image that your best target for jobs would be through regulatory agencies and governmental bodies. Another alternative may be companies like Pfizer that are involved in a lot of animal/regulatory testing for food and drugs as well. Or, if you're into research, perhaps a food science/public health department at a university.

 

[Butterfly05]

Hmmm....admittedly my knowledge lies more with the pathology side of things, but I would image that your best target for jobs would be through regulatory agencies and governmental bodies. Another alternative may be companies like Pfizer that are involved in a lot of animal/regulatory testing for food and drugs as well. Or, if you're into research, perhaps a food science/public health department at a university.

Thank you very much on the fast response. The regulatory agencies make sense; and Pfizer is good idea as well. I know you mentioned that this is not really your field, but any suggestion for the title (Pfizer): research assistant maybe?

 

[WhtsThFrequency]

Do you have any lab-based research experience? If not, that might hold you back from anything with research in the title unless it is public-health specific related research in which case your MPH would do just fine.

Try browsing around on www.usajobs.gov as well. I got quite a few hits just searching for "public health" and "food safety". A lot of them are more regulatory in nature and maybe not quite as down-and-dirty food technology based, but there seems to be a variety.

It sounds like some flavors of Veterinary Medical Officer or something else within APHIS (Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service), FSIS (Food Safety Inspection Service), or the USDA as a whole would be an ideal career for you if you like public health and food stuff along with animal health. However, to be a full VMO you'd need to either have a DVM from a US vet school or fulfill one of these requirements - or, as per govt website:

Graduates of foreign veterinary medical schools that are not accredited by the AVMA Council on Education must meet one of the following requirements: (Refer to AVMA website for schools in this category.) a) Proof of certification of their final transcript by the Educational Commission for Foreign Veterinary Graduates (ECFVG); b) Possession of a permanent, full, and unrestricted license to practice veterinary medicine in a State, District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States that includes successful completion of the North American Veterinary Licensing Examination (NAVLE) or its predecessors, the National Board Examination (NBE) and the Clinical Competency Test (CCT); OR c) Proof that the education obtained in a foreign veterinary medical program is equivalent to that gained in a veterinary medical program that is accredited by the American Veterinary Medical Association Council on Education. An AVMA-accredited veterinary medical school or college must have accepted the final transcript from the foreign veterinary medical school at full value for placement into an advanced degree, postgraduate educational program, or training program (e.g., residency or graduate program).

 

[Butterfly05]

Do you have any lab-based research experience? If not, that might hold you back from anything with research in the title unless it is public-health specific related research in which case your MPH would do just fine.

Try browsing around on www.usajobs.gov as well. I got quite a few hits just searching for "public health" and "food safety". A lot of them are more regulatory in nature and maybe not quite as down-and-dirty food technology based, but there seems to be a variety.

It sounds like some flavors of Veterinary Medical Officer or something else within APHIS (Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service), FSIS (Food Safety Inspection Service), or the USDA as a whole would be an ideal career for you if you like public health and food stuff along with animal health. However, to be a full VMO you'd need to either have a DVM from a US vet school or fulfill one of these requirements - or, as per govt website:

Graduates of foreign veterinary medical schools that are not accredited by the AVMA Council on Education must meet one of the following requirements: (Refer to AVMA website for schools in this category.) a) Proof of certification of their final transcript by the Educational Commission for Foreign Veterinary Graduates (ECFVG); b) Possession of a permanent, full, and unrestricted license to practice veterinary medicine in a State, District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States that includes successful completion of the North American Veterinary Licensing Examination (NAVLE) or its predecessors, the National Board Examination (NBE) and the Clinical Competency Test (CCT); OR c) Proof that the education obtained in a foreign veterinary medical program is equivalent to that gained in a veterinary medical program that is accredited by the American Veterinary Medical Association Council on Education. An AVMA-accredited veterinary medical school or college must have accepted the final transcript from the foreign veterinary medical school at full value for placement into an advanced degree, postgraduate educational program, or training program (e.g., residency or graduate program).

I'm currently applying for some jobs like: research assistant, research coordinator, PH officer, health educator... and I would like if it would be somehow more related with lab or hospital environment versus real community work. Before and after I finished vet school I worked in animal hospital; I have more than 4 years of experience in that field, that's why I thought it could help me get into jobs like this (maybe?). After I got a message from you yesterday I went through the regulatory agencies and looked for job descriptions and I found the same thing about their requirements, as far as certification for DVM. Honestly I'm enrolled in ECFVG for couple years now, and I got stuck with TOEFL; their requirements were 92 and I couldn't go more than 90 and I lost my nerves, since I was trying for year and half (that exam room was always very loud for me). Now I started reading Ielts; I heard it's easier and I feel I shouldn't let go Vet medicine, but I was hopping to start working in the mean time.