ASPCA Veterinary Training Alumni Survey

As a past trainee of the ASPCA, your input is incredibly valuable to us!

We would like to learn if and how you are using learnings from your ASPCA training, your recent employment and other professional activities, and your engagement in your community and the animal welfare field more broadly. Please help us understand your perspective by completing this voluntary, confidential survey. The survey should take about 5 minutes. The results of the survey will be reported without any names or other identifying information. We plan to use this information to help us understand the impact of our programs, improve our training and to learn how to better support you.

To thank you for your time, you will have the option to enter your email at the end of the survey for a chance to win a $50 Amazon gift card.

If you have any questions about the survey, please reach out to us at ASPCAResearch@aspca.org.

Please enter your name and email address below. This information will be used to track surveys and prevent duplicates, but your name/email will not be tied to any of your responses in the reporting of survey results.

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First Name *

Last Name *

Email *

In what zip code is your clinic, practice, or organization/institution based out of?

ZIP/Postal Code

Have you graduated veterinary school? *

• Yes
• No

Date you graduated veterinary school? *

Veterinary Practice Sectors

Please refer to the figure below to answer the following question.

Which best describes the career sector or area of practice (refer to the figure above for examples) of your current primary job:

• Private practice
• Animal welfare
• Commercial/industrial
• Academic/university (other than shelter medicine)
• State/federal government
• Other veterinary sector (specify below)
• Non-veterinary sector (specify below)
• In a post graduate training program (specify program type below, e.g., internship, residency)
• Not currently employed

If other veterinary sector, non-veterinary sector, or in post graduate training, please specify:

What is the primary species you work with?

• Small animal
• Mixed
• Exotics, nontraditional
• Food animal
• Equine
• Other (please specify)

Type of practice:

• General Practice
• Specialty Practice (specify below)
• Other (specify below)

Please specify specialty or other type of practice:

Is the practice:

• Veterinarian-owned
• Corporate practice such an Banfield, Blue Pearl, etc.
• Other (please specify)

Animal welfare:

Which best describes the organization where you work for your current primary job:

• Private/non-profit shelter (facility) without a government animal services contract
• Private/non-profit shelter (facility) with a government animal services contract
• Municipal shelter
• Spay/neuter clinic
• Non-profit and low-cost veterinary medicine clinic or hospital
• Rescue/foster based
• National non-profit animal welfare organization (ASPCA, HSUS, etc)
• University veterinary college or veterinary technology program
• Combination of above (e.g., spay/neuter & low cost vet med clinic; shelter & low cost vet med clinic, etc; specify below)
• Other (please specify)

If Combination or Other, please specify:

These next questions are about how you are applying learnings from your ASPCA training program

In the last 12 months, how often have you applied learnings (knowledge, skills) from your ASPCA training program in your clinical practice and/or other professional activities (including volunteer work in the veterinary field)?

• Never
• Rarely
• Sometimes
• Often
• Always

What is the reason(s) you have never or rarely applied learnings (check all that apply)?

• Lack of interest
• Lack of time
• Lack of opportunity
• Content isn't applicable to my work
• Other (please specify)

Please tell us more about how you have applied learnings from the ASPCA training in the last 12 months (e.g. which learnings did you apply; in what setting; and what was the impact; etc.)

In the last 12 months, how often have you volunteered your own time at a shelter or other animal welfare organization, community spay/neuter or vaccination event, etc.

• Never
• One or two times
• A few times
• About once a month
• At least once a week

In the last 12 months, have you worked a relief, part-time or second job at a shelter or other animal welfare organization, community spay/neuter or vaccination event, etc

• Yes
• No

In the last 12 months have you held a leadership position within your organization (e.g., student club officer, practice owner, clinic/medical director, department/division chart, etc.)

• Yes
• No

In the last 12 months have you held a leadership or advisory position with a local, regional or national professional organization or non-profit animal welfare organization (e.g., advisory board member, office or commitee member in a professional organizaation)

• Yes
• No

In the last 12 months have you been involved in teaching or mentoring veterinary students, veterinary nursing students, veterinary nurses or post-graduate veterinarians.

• Yes
• No

In the last 12 months, how much would you say your training with ASPCA has influenced:

Your clinical practice or other professional activities

• NA-no opportunity
• Extremely negatively
• Somewhat negatively
• No influence
• Somewhat positively
• Extremely positively

Your career/job choices

• NA-no opportunity
• Extremely negatively
• Somewhat negatively
• No influence
• Somewhat positively
• Extremely positively

Your involvement in animal welfare efforts outside of your primary job (e.g., volunteer work; secondary job in field; advocacy, etc.)

• NA-no opportunity
• Extremely negatively
• Somewhat negatively
• No influence
• Somewhat positively
• Extremely positively

Please tell us more about how the ASPCA training positively or negatively impacted your practice and career in the last 12 months:

In the last 12 months, how often have you:

Recommended ASPCA training programs to another student or professional?

• NA-no opportunity
• Never
• Rarely
• Sometimes
• Often
• Always

Recommended the ASPCA to others as a potential veterinary employer?

• NA-no opportunity
• Never
• Rarely
• Sometimes
• Often
• Always

Please share any additional comments you may have, including how we might best help support your animal welfare efforts in the future.

You have reached the end of the survey! Thank you for participating!

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If you have any questions or comments about the survey, please reach out to us at ASPCAResearch@aspca.org.