Use of Educational Puzzles for Learning Concepts of Clinical Diagnostic Imaging in Veterinary Medicine

2021 ◽  
pp. e20210026
Author(s):  
Christopher P. Ober
Keyword(s):  
Differential Diagnosis ◽  
Veterinary Medicine ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Exam Score ◽  
Dramatic Decrease ◽  
Veterinary Students ◽  
Final Exam ◽  
Spine Imaging ◽  
Clinical Radiology

Learning the concepts of clinical radiology, including lesion identification and formulation of differential diagnosis lists, can be challenging for veterinary students. A series of educational puzzles with an overarching narrative was developed to help students learn the fundamental concepts of urogenital, thoracic, and spine imaging. Third-year veterinary students had the opportunity to use as many of the puzzles as they wished as a part of their studies in a semester-long imaging course, and students completed surveys to indicate which puzzle sections they used and provide their opinions of the activities. Graded performance in the course was correlated with how many puzzle activities students used. A small but statistically significant correlation was found between the number of puzzle sections used and midterm exam score, final exam score, and overall course score. Although most students who used the puzzles as a part of their studies enjoyed the activities, there was a dramatic decrease in usage over the semester, from 74% of survey respondents using the initial topic to a low of 27% utilization of the sixth topic, followed by a small rebound to 37% for the eighth topic (the review for the final exam). Thus, while developing a puzzle series is achievable and beneficial to student learning, possibly because of improved student engagement through increased variety in learning opportunities, further steps are necessary to encourage continued student engagement throughout the semester.

scholarly journals Remote or Removed: Predicting Successful Engagement with Online Learning during COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 237802312098820
Author(s):  
Thurston Domina ◽  
Linda Renzulli ◽  
Brittany Murray ◽  
Alma Nidia Garza ◽  
Lysandra Perez
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Initial Period ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Academic Learning ◽  
Socioeconomic Resources ◽  
Using Data ◽  
School Programming ◽  
Remote Learning

Using data from a spring 2020 survey of nearly 10,000 parents of elementary school parents in one large southeastern public school district, the authors investigate predictors of elementary school student engagement during the initial period of pandemic remote learning. The authors hypothesize that household material and technological resources, school programming and instructional strategies, and family social capital contribute to student engagement in remote learning. The analyses indicate that even after controlling for rich measures of family socioeconomic resources, students with access to high-speed Internet and Internet-enabled devices have higher levels of engagement. Exposure to more diverse socioemotional and academic learning opportunities further predicts higher levels of engagement. In addition, students whose families remained socially connected to other students’ families were more likely to engage online.

scholarly journals Clinical Evidence of Lyme Disease in Dogs and Disease Awareness Among Students and Veterinarians in Veracruz, Mexico

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Blanca Paola Boria-Gamboa ◽  
José Alfredo Villagómez-Cortés ◽  
David Itzcoatl Martínez-Herrera
Keyword(s):  
Differential Diagnosis ◽  
Lyme Disease ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Clinical Evidence ◽  
Clinical Signs ◽  
Small Animal ◽  
Apparent Absence ◽  
Veterinary Students ◽  
Disease Awareness ◽  
Veterinary Curriculum

Background: Lyme disease is a relatively new and zoonotic canine pathology mostly unknown by people involved in the management and care of dogs.  Objective: to assess the knowledge about Lyme disease by veterinarians and veterinary students in Veracruz, Mexico. Methodology: three questionnaires were designed and applied to 290 individuals (40 small animal veterinarians, 50 in other professional practice and 200 veterinary students). Results and discussion: in general, the three groups were unaware about the disease, although there is a high interest in learning about this problem. Graduates from seven universities included in this study stated that Lyme disease was not part of the veterinary curriculum in their schools. Five clinical cases suggestive of Lyme disease occurring in dogs in the area were detected at the time of this research. Conclusion: although the presence of the agent causing Lyme disease has not been demonstrated in the studied area due to the lack of laboratory support and the apparent absence of the vector, it cannot be ruled out; furthermore, it is important that veterinary practitioners and student alike be aware of the potential presence of Lyme disease, paying particular attention to differential diagnosis when resembling clinical signs are observed.

scholarly journals Mindset and its relationship to anxiety in clinical veterinary students

2018 ◽  
Vol 183 (20) ◽  
pp. 623-623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Bostock ◽  
Tierney Kinnison ◽  
Stephen A May
Keyword(s):  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Mental Wellbeing ◽  
Veterinary Students ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Strong Growth ◽  
Fixed Mindset ◽  
Quantitative Results ◽  
Future Work ◽  
The Relationship

This study investigated anxiety, one aspect of mental wellbeing, in fourth year veterinary students before the final clinical section of their course (intramural rotations (IMR)). It explored the relationship between reported anxiety and ‘mindset’: an individual’s view on the ability to develop (eg, improve intelligence). Questionnaires were completed by 130 students. Students were mindset typed for ability and personality and rated their anxiety towards IMR. Students with different overall mindsets (‘strong growth’, ‘growth’ and ‘fixed’) were invited to participate in focus groups, to discuss causes of their anxieties. Quantitative results indicated 63.1 per cent of students had strong growth or growth mindsets overall, and that females were more fixed mindset-oriented than males. Females reported significantly greater anxiety than males. A fixed mindset view overall, and of ability, were significantly correlated with increased anxiety, while mindset view of personality was not. Students provided various reasons for their anxieties, which differed with mindset. Fixed mindset students (n=2) focused on concerns about knowledge, whereas growth students (n=6) were also anxious about work-life balance and future work. Growth students saw clinicians as future colleagues, rather than intimidating teachers. Students reported an awareness of being graded, although growth students were aware that IMR are learning opportunities.

scholarly journals The Ethics of Canadian Entry-To-Practice Pain Competencies: How Are We Doing?

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judy Watt-Watson ◽  
Elizabeth Peter ◽  
A John Clark ◽  
Anne Dewar ◽  
Thomas Hadjistavropoulos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Veterinary Medicine ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Ethical Practice ◽  
Veterinary Students ◽  
Canadian Health ◽  
Pain Knowledge ◽  
Key Competencies

BACKGROUND: Although unrelieved pain continues to represent a significant problem, prelicensure educational programs tend to include little content related to pain. Standards for professional competence strongly influence curricula and have the potential to ensure that health science students have the knowledge and skill to manage pain in a way that also allows them to meet professional ethical standards.OBJECTIVES: To perform a systematic, comprehensive examination to determine the entry-to-practice competencies related to pain required for Canadian health science and veterinary students, and to examine how the presence and absence of pain competencies relate to key competencies of an ethical nature.METHODS: Entry-to-practice competency requirements related to pain knowledge, skill and judgment were surveyed from national, provincial and territorial documents for dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, psychology and veterinary medicine.RESULTS: Dentistry included two and nursing included nine specific pain competencies. No references to competencies related to pain were found in the remaining health science documents. In contrast, the national competency requirements for veterinary medicine, surveyed as a comparison, included nine pain competencies. All documents included competencies pertaining to ethics.CONCLUSIONS: The lack of competencies related to pain has implications for advancing skillful and ethical practice. The lack of attention to pain competencies limits the capacity of health care professionals to alleviate suffering, foster autonomy and use resources justly. Influencing professional bodies to increase the number of required entry-to-practice pain competencies may ultimately have the greatest impact on education and practice.

A cabinet of the ordinary: domesticating veterinary education, 1766–1799

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
KIT HEINTZMAN
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Veterinary Medicine ◽  
Natural History ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Travel Literature ◽  
Resource Constraints ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Veterinary Education ◽  
Veterinary Students ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries

AbstractIn the late eighteenth century, the Ecole vétérinaire d'Alfort was renowned for its innovative veterinary education and for having one of the largest natural history and anatomy collections in France. Yet aside from a recent interest in the works of one particular anatomist, the school's history has been mostly ignored. I examine here the fame of the school in eighteenth-century travel literature, the historic connection between veterinary science and natural history, and the relationship between the school's hospital and its esteemed cabinet. Using the correspondence papers of veterinary administrators, state representatives and competing scientific institutions during the French Revolution, I argue that resource constraints and the management of anatomical and natural history specimens produced new disciplinary boundaries between natural history, veterinary medicine and human medicine, while reinforcing geographic divisions between the local and the foreign in the study of non-human animals. This paper reconstructs theAncien Régimereasoning that veterinary students would benefit from a global perspective on animality, and the Revolutionary government's rejection of that premise. Under republicanism, veterinary medicine became domestic.

scholarly journals Conscientious Objection to Animal Testing: A Preliminary Survey Among Italian Medical and Veterinary Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilaria Baldelli ◽  
Bartolomeo Biolatti ◽  
Pierluigi Santi ◽  
Giovanni Murialdo ◽  
Anna Maria Bassi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Veterinary Medicine ◽  
Educational Interventions ◽  
Animal Experimentation ◽  
Human Medicine ◽  
Animal Testing ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Veterinary Students ◽  
Knowledge And Attitudes ◽  
Italian Law ◽  
The Right

The use of animals for educational and research purposes is common in both veterinary and human medicine degree courses, and one that involves important ethical considerations. The aim of this study was to assess the extent of differences between the knowledge and attitudes of veterinary students and medical students on animal bioethics, on alternative strategies and on their right to conscientiously object to animal experimentation. To this end, a questionnaire was completed by 733 students (384 human medicine students (HMS) and 349 veterinary medicine students (VMS)). VMS were more aware than HMS (72.2% and 59.6%, respectively) of the existence of an Italian law on the right to conscientiously object to animal experimentation. However, very few of them had exercised this right. Many VMS (43.3%) felt that animal bioethics courses should be mandatory (only 17.4% of HMS felt the same way). More VMS than HMS (81.7% and 59.1%, respectively) expressed an interest in attending a course on alternatives to animal experimentation. The data suggest the need for appropriate educational interventions, in order to allow students to make choices based on ethical principles. Fostering close collaborations between departments of human medicine and veterinary medicine, for example, through shared study modules, could promote the development of ethical competence as a basic skill of students of both veterinary and human medicine courses.

scholarly journals Opinions towards Companion Animals and Their Welfare: A Survey of Croatian Veterinary Students

Animals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomislav Mikuš ◽  
Mario Ostović ◽  
Ivana Sabolek ◽  
Kristina Matković ◽  
Željko Pavičić ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Veterinary Medicine ◽  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Companion Animals ◽  
First Year ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Veterinary Students ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Study Programme ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Before And After

This survey was the first one investigating opinions of veterinary students in Croatia towards companion animals and their welfare, with special reference to dogs and cats as the most popular companion animals in the European Union. The study included students of all six years of the integrated undergraduate and graduate veterinary medicine study programme in Croatia. First-year students were surveyed twice, before and after having attended the course on animal welfare. Student opinions were assessed on the basis of their mean responses to five-point Likert scale questions and frequency of responses to Yes/No/I do not know questions and ratio scale questions. Study results revealed students to have strongly positive opinions towards companion animals and their welfare. The majority of student statements did not differ significantly between the first and sixth study years or before and after having attended the animal welfare course in the first study year, mostly yielding a straight, non-fluctuating line. Students were not sure whether welfare of companion dogs and cats was compromised. Study results pointed to reliable and reasonable opinions of veterinary medicine students in Croatia towards companion animals and their welfare, as well as to the welfare issues these species may be facing nowadays.

Skull and Spine Imaging: An Atlas of Differential Diagnosis

Neurology ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 44 (9) ◽  
pp. 1773-1773
Author(s):  
E. C. Bourekas
Keyword(s):  
Differential Diagnosis ◽  
Spine Imaging
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