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Use of Physical Self-Experience for Teaching Lameness Evaluation: Short-Term Effects on Lameness Evaluation of Horses wi...

Published in Journal of veterinary medical education

Lameness evaluation (LE) is an important veterinary skill, but it can be a challenging task to teach. Acoustic and visual input in conjunction with acting are the three major learning channels for acquiring new information. Acting (e.g., physical self-experience) has not been reported as didactic tool for LE; therefore, we investigated two physical...

A Model Course to Enhance Veterinary Student Exposure to Research.

Published in Journal of veterinary medical education

Despite many career opportunities available to veterinarians in research related fields and requirements for training in research methodologies by the American Veterinary Medical Association Council on Education (AVMA COE), formal approaches to development of veterinary curriculum related to research topics have not been widely reported. Colorado S...

What Are Employers Looking for in New Veterinary Graduates? A Content Analysis of UK Veterinary Job Advertisements.

Published in Journal of veterinary medical education

As veterinary educators, we have a responsibility to ensure that our graduates are prepared for working life. Veterinary practices, like any other businesses, rely on good employees, and the implications of a poor match between newly employed veterinarian and employing practice could be extremely costly in terms of personal well-being and enjoyment...

Assessing Differences in Understanding of Companion-Animal Preventive Care between a Veterinary Health Care Team and Pet...

Published in Journal of veterinary medical education

Preventive health care visits to primary care veterinary practices in the United States have been on the decline over the past decade. One of the main factors that has been identified is a lack of understanding by pet owners regarding the importance of preventive care. The Partners for Healthy Pets Opportunity Survey was adapted for use in this stu...

Am I Being Understood? Veterinary Students' Perceptions of the Relationship between Their Language Background, Communica...

Published in Journal of veterinary medical education

During clinical workplace learning, effective communication between veterinary students and clinical staff is of paramount importance to facilitating learning, assessment, and patient care. Although studies in health sciences education have indicated that students may experience communication difficulties as a result of linguistic, cultural, and ot...

Response to Iatridou et al, "Mapping the Teaching of Laboratory Animal Science and Medicine in the European Union and Eu...

Published in Journal of veterinary medical education

Reply to "Response to Iatridou et al, 'Mapping the Teaching of Laboratory Animal Science and Medicine in the European Un...

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Analysis of Small Animal Rotating Internship Applicants' Personal Statements.

Published in Journal of veterinary medical education

The primary purpose of this study was to identify themes that are consistent across veterinary internship applicants' personal statements and that are correlated with the statements' perceived overall quality. A secondary purpose was to investigate the reliability in personal statement quality scoring among six experienced internship candidate eval...

Effect of Different Instructional Methods on Contamination and Personal Protective Equipment Protocol Adherence among Ve...

Published in Journal of veterinary medical education

Proper use of personal protective equipment (PPE) is crucial to prevent disease spread. Recent studies in human medicine have shown disconcerting inconsistencies in the use of PPE in hospital wards. In this study, we compared the effect of three instructional methods for PPE use on contamination and protocol adherence among veterinary students. Stu...

Teaching Slaughter: Mapping Changes in Emotions in Veterinary Students during Training in Humane Slaughter.

Published in Journal of veterinary medical education

As part of their training, Dutch veterinary students learn how to carry out the humane slaughter of livestock, which many students consider emotionally challenging. The aims of this study were to plot changes in self-reported emotions in veterinary students at different time points during an educational program on humane slaughter using emotion car...