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Appendix C: The Supply and Demand for Laboratory Animal Veterinarians from 1980 to 2005
Appendix C: The Supply and Demand for Laboratory Animal Veterinarians from 1980 to 2005
Pages 78-84
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Wolfie ABSTRACT We investigated the supply-demand relationship for laboratory animal veterinarians in the United States from 1980 through 2005,using results of 8 sub-studies that assessed the demographic profile of the workforce, Public Health Service funding for research involving animals, United States Department of Agriculture summaries of animal numbers used in research, trends in inflation-adjusted salary measures and the number of job advertisements over time, and statistically-based survey responses from laboratory animal veterinarians, their employers, and training program coordinators. Our results were consistent with the hypothesis that the marketplace for this specialty of veterinary medicine had entered a steady-state by 1995, in which the national demand for and supply of laboratory animal veterinarians were closely approximated.
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of the laboratory animal veterinarian workforce was used along with training program information to forecast supply into the year 2005. None of these measures substantiated the hypothesis that a surplus of laboratory animal veterinarians currently exists in the United States.
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laboratory animal veterinarian positions in the United States by the year 2005. The close agreement between these values supported the hypothesis of a steady-state condition, whereby supply and demand will be nearly in balance.
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argues against the importance of a trend toward underemployment at present, although this issue should be closely monitored in the years ahead. Along with ACLAM, training programs have played a cornerstone role
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The NIH funding has long provided a considerable proportion of the support for academic training programs in laboratory animal medicine and comparative medicine, although recent indications are that this source will diminish substantially in the future (Table 21. Large-scale shrinkage or loss of training programs due to funding constraints will necessarily affect the supply of laboratory animal veterinarians, following a lag time equivalent to the duration for each program affected.
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In contrast, our estimated growth rate of 142% from 1980 to 2000 for full-time laboratory animal veterinarians approximated predictions of Wise and Kushman (2) , who expected gains ranging from 135% to 214% for the collective nonprivate veterinary sector under various supply-demand scenarios.
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The breadth and depth of training in laboratory animal medicine inherently provides for employment opportunities beyond most of the veterinary profession, as the survey of our workforce has revealed. Nonetheless, the external forces shaping the new national economy are sufficiently large to argue against any decision to enter into a production-push mode through expansion of existing training programs in a manner independent of supply and demand factors.
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