2026 VMSRTP Draft Schedule (updated weekly)
*The schedule is subject to change; changes will be announced at weekly meetings and by email.
| Date | Event | Presenter | Location |
| Wed, Mar 18 5:30pm-7:00pm | Organizational Introduction Meeting for all Scholars and Mentors to discuss program expectations, deliverables, and answer Mentor/Scholar questions | Scholars/Mentors/Directors | VIDI 102 ZOOM |
| Wed, April 15 5:30pm-7:00pm | Writing Workshop: Drafting your Research Proposal | Drs. Gaddy, T. Vemulapalli | VIDI 102 |
| Fri, May 1 | Proposals Due by email to Dr. Vemulapalli | ||
| Complete prior to May 14 | Emburse Training, Responsible Conduct of Research & Compliance Training: – Emburse online training – BSL-2 – Biological Safety – Cabinet Training (Train-Traq) – Blood Borne Pathogen – Radiation Training (Train-Traq) – CITI training–Working with IACUC | ONLINE | ALL training is ONLINE |
| Thurs, May 14 | Orientation and Required Responsible Conduct of Research 8:30am: Welcome 8:45am: Ethical, Responsible Conduct of Research 9:30am: Mentor-Mentee Relationships, Agreement 10:15am: BREAK 10:30am: Research Statistics 11:15am: Data Management, Ownership & Conflicts of Interest | Dr. Gaddy Dr. T. Vemulapalli Dr. Long Dr. R. Vemulapalli Dr. Sarah Hamer Sheila Green, VPR | VIDI 102 |
| Fri, May 15 | Orientation: Required Responsible Conduct of Research 8:30am: Ethics of Animal Research 9:15am: Research Grants and Funding Opportunities 10:00am: BREAK 10:15am: Evaluating & Presenting a Veterinary Medicine Scientific Journal Article 11:00am: Ethical Use of AI in Research 11:45am: Emburse Travel/Reimbursement training | Dr. T. Vemulapalli Dr. Peter Nghiem Dr. Noah Cohen Dr. Candice Chu Trista Moore | VIDI 102 |
| Wed, May 20 6:00pm-7:30pm | Kick-off Dinner: Career Paths for Veterinary Scientists and Mentors | Casa do Brasil | |
| Thu, May 21 11:30am-1:00pm | Literature Searches, Building your Professional Profile J Club Organization/Schedule Discussion | Molly Crews Dr. Gaddy | VIDI 102 |
| Thu, May 28 11:30am-1:00pm | DVM to PhD Career Panel Discussion | VIDI 102 | |
| Thu, June 4 | Journal Club Presentation by Scholar Group 1 Data Conversion to Abstracts; How to Prepare an Elevator Speech | ||
| Thu, June 11 | Leveraging VMSRTP in Future Research Careers: Panel Discussion by early career TAMU DVM-PhD Alumni | ||
| Thu, June 18 | Journal Club Presentation by Scholar Group 2 Organizing Proposal, Project, and Data into Posters, Oral Presentations, and Manuscripts | ||
| Thu, June 25 | Clinician Scientist Careers in Large and Small Animal Medicine | ||
| Thu, July 2 | Journal Club Presentation by Scholar Group 3 | ||
| Thu, July 9 | Journal Club Presentation by Scholar Group 4 Journal Club Presentation by Scholar Group 5 | ||
| Tue, July 14 | Symposium Abstracts due to AAVMC site | ||
| Thu, July 16 | Converting Data to Posters and Oral Presentation Formats Data interpretation to Poster/Slide Summary and Conclusion | ||
| Thu, July 23 | Converting Data, Figures and Proposal to Poster and Manuscript Figure Legends and Headings to Manuscript Results | ||
| Fri, July 24 | Office Hours: Poster help “clinic” (optional) | ||
| Thurs. July 30 | Elevator Speech Delivery Data Interpretation to Manuscript Discussion Program Assessment and Evaluation | ||
| Fri, July 31 | TAMU Summer Veterinary Student Research Symposium VMSRTP Final Banquet & Awards Dinner | ||
| Mon, Aug 3 | Posters due to print | ||
| Thurs-Sun Aug 6-9 | Travel to present posters at the National Veterinary Scholars Symposium | ||
| Mon, Aug 31 | Final Manuscripts due to Mentors and Program Directors |
