Research Experience?

[Perfbird]

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Hello everyone! Hope you're all surviving this application cycle and not freaking out like I am.

I was just trying to decide where to put my last experience, and I wanted to ask opinions. I worked in a genomics lab doing some pretty interesting work with zinc fingers and stuff like that. I was working directly with a PhD, and he would be considered a health professional.

My question now is, does it count as veterinary experience? It was NOT at all a clinic/hospital setting, it was very much a research lab. However, I was working with human to mouse genes, mouse tissues, and was infecting mice with our "stuff".

I don't know if it belongs under jobs, or if it would be considered veterinary. On one hand, I was not handling animals all day, but on the other hand I was learning about mouse diseases with relation to human genetics and I did work with animal tissues and the animals themselves occasionally.

Opinions?

 

[twelvetigers]

I would include it, but that's just me. At any rate, it's neat and it definitely needs to go somewhere noticeable!

 

[rileyroo]

i would put it under veterinary experience

 

[Hopeful2014]

I would NOT put it under veterinary experience, since you did not work directly with DVM. It would definitely fall under animal experience, however. If you read the definitions on VMCAS it will tell you that unless you worked directly with or under a DVM, do not count experiences as veterinary experience.

Hope this helps!!

 

[IHeartGoldens]

I do believe working with a Ph.D counts as veterinary experience but it depends on the setting, I suppose.
I worked in a lab for almost 2 years working with rats/mice/behavior etc and I'm putting that as vet experience.

Anyone else?

 

[twelvetigers]

VMCAS explicitly states that work under a 'health professional' or PhD does count as vet experience as long as your research wasn't, say... physics.

 

[IHeartGoldens]

...and there you have it ladies and gents 👍

 

[Perfbird]

Thanks everyone! VMCAS does indeed say that a PhD counts as a health professional and if the work was with animals then it's vet experience. I also asked a few vets I work with and they agree it would be fine under vet experience.