WEBVTT 00:05.257 --> 00:08.490 - [Scott Chamberlin] Scott Chamberlin, S-C-O-T-T, 00:08.490 --> 00:12.230 Chamberlin, C-H-A-M-B-E-R-L-I-N. 00:12.230 --> 00:13.560 Just like the city at the end. 00:13.560 --> 00:15.820 - [Interviewer] Okay, and what is your rank? 00:15.820 --> 00:16.940 - Lieutenant Colonel. 00:16.940 --> 00:19.620 - [Interviewer] Okay, and what is your title? 00:19.620 --> 00:22.150 - My primary job is a first-year 00:22.150 --> 00:24.620 graduate veterinary education cadre 00:24.620 --> 00:26.330 for clinical medicine. 00:26.330 --> 00:29.620 And I'm here for the AMSUS Awards because 00:29.620 --> 00:31.630 uh, I led the team for the 00:31.630 --> 00:33.400 Veterinary Medical Standardization Board 00:33.400 --> 00:35.360 as the president, and I have an amazing team 00:35.360 --> 00:37.240 and we've done some really cool things for the 00:37.240 --> 00:40.550 Veterinary Corps, and it's had a significant impact 00:40.550 --> 00:44.652 for readiness across the army and army medicine. 00:44.652 --> 00:48.153 - [Interviewer] So you were a cadre at a vet school? 00:48.153 --> 00:52.238 - So, the, yeah so, I'm gonna try to do this as, 00:52.238 --> 00:53.071 - [Interviewer] Yeah, you can start. 00:53.071 --> 00:55.470 - Yeah, so there are about thirty veterinary 00:55.470 --> 00:57.210 schools in the country. 00:57.210 --> 00:59.060 When uh, veterinarians 00:59.060 --> 01:01.300 graduate they are fully qualified, licensed, 01:01.300 --> 01:02.920 and they come into the army. 01:02.920 --> 01:04.510 And so, they're new providers, they're 01:04.510 --> 01:07.470 fully qualified, but they have very little experience. 01:07.470 --> 01:11.570 And then, they, we used to send them to new sites and 01:11.570 --> 01:13.070 they would be by themselves, there's very few 01:13.070 --> 01:14.990 veterinarians and so they'd be by themselves. 01:14.990 --> 01:16.690 - [Interviewer] Oh, deep water. Or deep end. 01:16.690 --> 01:17.523 - Very deep end. 01:17.523 --> 01:18.356 - [Interviewer] Yeah. 01:18.356 --> 01:19.710 - Like, two hours away, new provider 01:19.710 --> 01:21.620 trying to wear a uniform right side out. 01:21.620 --> 01:23.190 And so now we have a first year graduate 01:23.190 --> 01:24.223 veterinary education, and we have a 01:24.223 --> 01:26.470 preventive medicine cadre, and a 01:26.470 --> 01:29.500 clinical cadre, and for six to twelve months, 01:29.500 --> 01:32.990 we coach, teach, and mentor them in clinical 01:32.990 --> 01:35.670 medicine, in food safety, 'cause most of what the 01:35.670 --> 01:38.350 Veterinary Corps does is public health and food safety. 01:38.350 --> 01:40.380 And, but we also take care of the military work dogs. 01:40.380 --> 01:42.500 Every piece of potentially hazardous food that you've 01:42.500 --> 01:45.040 ever eaten, has been inspected by a veterinarian 01:45.040 --> 01:46.360 at the plant, 01:46.360 --> 01:49.200 and by veterinary uh, 01:49.200 --> 01:51.710 usually a food service technician. 01:51.710 --> 01:53.000 Unless it's on an Air Force base, 01:53.000 --> 01:55.170 in the commissaries, in the shoppettes. 01:55.170 --> 01:57.300 - [Interviewer] Why is that? What's the correlation? 01:57.300 --> 01:58.626 - So, that's a great question. 01:58.626 --> 01:59.590 - [Interviewer] Is it just because you, you're 01:59.590 --> 02:01.800 dual-headed and you can do it all? 02:01.800 --> 02:03.195 - Yeah, that's exactly why 02:03.195 --> 02:04.028 (laughter) 02:04.028 --> 02:05.510 - [Scott Chamberlin] So, and that's true 02:05.510 --> 02:07.060 across the DOD. 02:07.060 --> 02:09.040 Like, we are one of the smallest corps 02:09.040 --> 02:11.980 in the DOD, and there's less than 450 02:11.980 --> 02:13.940 veterinarians on active duty. 02:13.940 --> 02:17.310 And, we cover all of the DOD. 02:17.310 --> 02:19.010 And there's less than 50 veterinary clinical 02:19.010 --> 02:21.004 specialists in the entire Department of Defense, 02:21.004 --> 02:22.706 and they're all in the army. 02:22.706 --> 02:23.539 - [Interviewer] Wow. 02:23.539 --> 02:24.372 - [Scott Chamberlin] So, 02:24.372 --> 02:25.205 - [Interviewer] That's amazing. 02:25.205 --> 02:27.562 - Yeah, so our economy of scale is kind of, uh, incredible. 02:27.562 --> 02:30.100 But, you would send these new captains out, 02:30.100 --> 02:32.700 and they go to like, Minot Air Force base, 02:32.700 --> 02:35.140 or Fort Bragg, or some place where they have to 02:35.140 --> 02:37.330 function as army officers. 02:37.330 --> 02:39.440 And that's a real challenge, so now I get to 02:39.440 --> 02:42.400 coach, teach, and mentor these incredibly gifted 02:42.400 --> 02:45.400 uh, young officers, incredibly gifted. 02:45.400 --> 02:48.060 It's hard to get uh, an army scholarship, 02:48.060 --> 02:50.170 or even come into the army as a veterinarian, 02:50.170 --> 02:52.260 and I get to work with them, and teach them how 02:52.260 --> 02:53.250 to do great things. 02:53.250 --> 02:55.450 And that's my primary job, my secondary 02:55.450 --> 02:57.480 and tertiary job is why I'm here for the 02:57.480 --> 02:59.160 AMSUS Awards as the 02:59.160 --> 03:02.150 Veterinary Medical Standardization Board president. 03:02.150 --> 03:03.810 - [Interviewer] What is that, what is that? 03:03.810 --> 03:06.470 - So, the Veterinary Medical Standardization Board 03:06.470 --> 03:09.010 is a group of uh, 03:09.010 --> 03:14.010 officers uh, enlisted, reservist, uh deployable, garrison. 03:14.440 --> 03:18.080 We emphasize, one of my big things when I 03:18.080 --> 03:19.980 took over as the president, was to 03:19.980 --> 03:22.535 really emphasize relevance and 03:22.535 --> 03:25.140 creating the standards in formulary, 03:25.140 --> 03:26.147 creating standards in the equipment, 03:26.147 --> 03:29.090 and creating uh, protocols to 03:29.090 --> 03:31.790 enable success uh, that's within the standards 03:31.790 --> 03:33.440 of veterinary medicine as a whole, including 03:33.440 --> 03:34.750 the serving practice. 03:34.750 --> 03:37.640 As well as, what's relevant to when you 03:37.640 --> 03:39.950 have to do this down range. 03:39.950 --> 03:42.640 So, our board, we have three committees, 03:42.640 --> 03:44.800 the equipment, formulary, and protocol, 03:44.800 --> 03:46.740 and I have amazing committee chairs 03:46.740 --> 03:48.683 that are, honestly, 03:49.670 --> 03:51.130 I was blessed 03:51.130 --> 03:53.160 to have the support of my leadership. 03:53.160 --> 03:57.540 I had a vision, that uh, a lot of people 03:57.540 --> 03:59.230 felt the need for. 03:59.230 --> 04:01.020 And so this standardization board has done 04:01.020 --> 04:02.490 some really amazing things over the 04:02.490 --> 04:05.350 last year and a half that I've been doing this. 04:05.350 --> 04:06.183 - [Interviewer] Awesome. 04:06.183 --> 04:07.560 So what does it make you feel like to come 04:07.560 --> 04:09.820 here tonight and, and see some of these other 04:09.820 --> 04:12.259 award winners, and then receive an award yourself? 04:12.259 --> 04:15.160 Um, again, just taking the time-out after all 04:15.160 --> 04:16.750 the hard work? 04:16.750 --> 04:18.540 - It's incredibly humbling. 04:18.540 --> 04:22.290 Uh, I work with such amazing people, 04:22.290 --> 04:24.172 from the captains that I lead and coach, 04:24.172 --> 04:27.700 to the, the soldiers that I work with, and the 04:27.700 --> 04:28.970 challenges that they face. 04:28.970 --> 04:32.600 And to be able to help people who want to do this. 04:32.600 --> 04:35.350 This is at best our secondary or tertiary duties, 04:35.350 --> 04:39.210 these are clinic OIC's, these are NCOIC's. 04:39.210 --> 04:41.040 These are uh, 04:41.040 --> 04:43.380 even commanders or uh, 04:43.380 --> 04:45.690 just secondary or tertiary duties, and 04:45.690 --> 04:47.680 they're writing these standards that impact 04:47.680 --> 04:49.240 the entire corps, and since we're the only 04:49.240 --> 04:51.540 show in an entire Department of Defense, 04:51.540 --> 04:53.370 we're worldwide, like we've been purple 04:53.370 --> 04:55.530 long before the Defense Health Agency 04:55.530 --> 04:58.900 came around as the veterinary corps since the 1980's. 04:58.900 --> 05:01.130 And so, we have these captains, 05:01.130 --> 05:04.540 we have staff sergeants, that have this impact, 05:04.540 --> 05:08.180 so it's just this amazing opportunity, 05:08.180 --> 05:10.900 not just to allow them to provide a 05:10.900 --> 05:12.980 relevant focus from the debt plates, 05:12.980 --> 05:15.220 as well as, uh, our executive council includes 05:15.220 --> 05:16.980 our corps chief, our deputy corps chief, the 05:16.980 --> 05:19.080 senior listed advisor, the chairman of our 05:19.080 --> 05:20.393 Junior Officers Council. 05:21.510 --> 05:23.640 Uh, they all have impact on 05:23.640 --> 05:25.509 writing these standards. 05:25.509 --> 05:28.240 And then, they do these amazing things 05:28.240 --> 05:30.690 and they all make all of our lives better 05:30.690 --> 05:33.160 by simplifying, but still keeping it relevant. 05:33.160 --> 05:35.160 I just have this amazing team, 05:35.160 --> 05:37.540 I'm incredibly humbled to work with them, 05:37.540 --> 05:40.390 and I'm incredibly humbled to work, and 05:40.390 --> 05:43.690 have the support of our leaders, and our soldiers. 05:43.690 --> 05:45.790 Uh, it's an amazing job. 05:45.790 --> 05:47.830 My primary job was a coach, teacher, 05:47.830 --> 05:49.580 mentor for these captains. 05:49.580 --> 05:51.150 It dovetails in with this 05:51.150 --> 05:52.700 Veterinary Medical Standardization Board, 05:52.700 --> 05:55.110 it's a way to have massive strategic 05:55.110 --> 05:57.702 impact across the DOD, as well as, 05:57.702 --> 05:59.780 the leaders who are going to do that. 05:59.780 --> 06:02.410 And that's the staff sergeants, it's the captains 06:02.410 --> 06:04.877 that I lead, it's very humbling, 06:04.877 --> 06:06.396 and I'm very blessed. 06:06.396 --> 06:07.229 - [Interviewer] Okay, and did you tell 06:07.229 --> 06:08.502 me, I mean, are you out at 06:08.502 --> 06:09.802 San Antonio as well, or? 06:09.802 --> 06:10.635 - [Scott Chamberlin] I'm actually at 06:10.635 --> 06:11.502 Fort Campbell, Kentucky. 06:11.502 --> 06:13.810 - [Interviewer] Fort Campbell, Kentucky, okay. 06:13.810 --> 06:15.910 Um, was there anything else that I didn't ask 06:15.910 --> 06:17.233 that you wanted to add? 06:18.400 --> 06:20.410 - Just my incredible thanks to all the 06:20.410 --> 06:23.630 veterinarians and staff serving the professionals 06:23.630 --> 06:25.700 who serve heroes everyday. 06:25.700 --> 06:29.950 And, uh, I'm very honored and blessed to be here. 06:29.950 --> 06:30.783 - [Interviewer] Awesome, thank you. 06:30.783 --> 06:31.616 That's all I had.