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Your donation helps Pride VMC offer services and resources to our Veterinarian community. Please consider a donation, however small or large.
Job Board
Pride VMC has compiled a comprehensive list of many of the currently available jobs in the Veterinary Community in the United States & Canada. Let’s go find you a job. Fetch!
PrideVMC Mission & Vision
The mission and purpose of PrideVMC is to create a better world for the LGBTQ+ veterinary community.
Our vision is an empowered LGBTQ+ veterinary community that embraces wellbeing by being their authentic selves.
Strategic Priorities
- Education and advocacy for LGBTQ+ inclusion and diversity.
- Student empowerment through leadership development and mentorship.
- Member recruitment, engagement and outreach.
Our foundational priority is strategic partnership because we know we can accomplish more together.
The mission of PrideVMC is to create a better world for the LGBTQ+ veterinary community.
Calendar
PRIDE VMC will list an entire range of events happening around the country. Please check our calendar page often for the latest events and happenings.
PRIDE VMC will list an entire range of events happening around the country. Please check our calendar page often for the latest events and happenings.
Membership
Membership in Pride VMC is open to anyone regardless of occupation, education, sex or sexual orientation. For the full voting rights and privileges assigned to various types of members, see our By-laws.
Your membership dues support our many programs for LGBT veterinarians, technicians, veterinary practices and students. Among other things, membership ALSO entitles you to:
- Access to the Members Only section of this website
- Access to our new Job site
- Inclusion in our online Membership Directory, which is confidential and available only to members in good standing
- Pride VMC’s Newsletter
- Placement of ad in the newsletter and/or on website
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Merchandise
Coming Soon! Check back in for merchandise featuring our new logo as well as a special edition SF Pride edition t-shirt!
News
Gratitude
A message from PrideVMC President Dr. Dane Whitaker. Pic cred: OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images As I sit to write this month’s member message, I am reflecting on the theme of gratitude. I had decided that this would be an appropriate theme for November when we...
Wisdom from PrideVMC 2020 Intersectionality Award Winner, Kaitlin Brown
Understanding intersectionality is imperative to being able to lead a group of diverse people. In the world of veterinary medicine we often see patients and clients in a lens that is very binary. Either the cat is hyperglycemic or it is not hyperglycemic. The client...
Not Every Disability is Visible: Tips for Making Your Business Inclusive for Employees with Disabilities
By Nancy Di Dia, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer, BI USA In honor of Global Diversity Awareness Month and National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM), PrideVMC shines a spotlight on PrideVMC Diamond Partner Boehringer Ingelheim. It may...
Wisdom from 2020 PrideVMC Diversity Bonus Award Winner Jessica Rutten
My scrubs may be blue, but my uniform is rainbow. When I’m in scrubs behind a clipboard, I am representing myself to my clients and colleagues not only as an advocate for pet health, but as a member and advocate for the LGBTQ+ community. Tolerance, inclusiveness, and...
Relief Rover Announced as PrideVMC Sapphire Partner
The Pride Veterinary Medical Community (PrideVMC) is excited to announce a new collaboration with PrideVMC 2020 and 2021 Sapphire Partner, Relief Rover. Relief Rover Founder, CEO, and PrideVMC member, Dr. Cindy Trice (she, her, hers) shares, "Relief Rover empowers and...
Diversifying Veterinary Medicine
PrideVMC Spotlights Silver Partner Banfield Pet Hospital Research shows that 90% of veterinarians identify as white according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, making ours one of the most predominately white industries in the U.S. and the least diverse of healthcare...
GratitudeA message from PrideVMC President Dr. Dane Whitaker. […]
Wisdom from PrideVMC 2020 Intersectionality Award Winner, Kaitlin BrownUnderstanding intersectionality is imperative to being […]
Not Every Disability is Visible: Tips for Making Your Business Inclusive for Employees with DisabilitiesBy Nancy Di Dia, Chief Diversity & Inclusion […]
Wisdom from 2020 PrideVMC Diversity Bonus Award Winner Jessica RuttenMy scrubs may be blue, but my uniform is rainbow. When […]
Relief Rover Announced as PrideVMC Sapphire PartnerThe Pride Veterinary Medical Community (PrideVMC) is […]
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About Us
The purpose of PrideVMC is, through collaboration, create a better world for the LGBTQ+ veterinary community.
Strategic Priorities
- Education and advocacy for LGBTQ+ inclusion and diversity with special attention to antiracism and intersectionality.
- Student empowerment through leadership development and mentorship.
- Member recruitment, engagement, and outreach.
Vision
Our vision is an empowered LGBTQ+ veterinary community that embraces wellbeing by being their authentic selves.
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