This symposium serves as a complement to the Primary Care Veterinary Educators Symposium run annually by the AAVMC. Although many PCVE attendees work in the shelter medicine field, this forum provides a focus on topics central to shelter medicine and community medicine programs, including a strong look at accessibility of care and the role that shelter medicine plays. With grant-based support and in collaboration with the Shelter Medicine programs of the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine and the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, this symposium is occurring for its sixth year.