[ACVM] Vet micro education

[Anne Zajac]

We have had exactly the same concerns on the parasitology side.  Dr. Susan
Little at Oklahoma State has been very proactive and established the
National Center for Vet Parasitology at OSU which is an industry/academic
partnership that is funding residencies in veterinary parasitology.
Students receive residency training and a PhD, which can be completed at
many different institutions.

This might be a model you would be interested in for microbiology.

Anne Zajac

On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 6:45 PM, Wilkes, Rebecca Penrose <beckpen at utk.edu>
wrote:

> Hi All,
> Just thinking about a few things lately. We are always asking ourselves in
> the BOG meetings how we can make ourselves more relevant. I am concerned
> about what I am seeing in the vet schools. It seems we are seeing more
> education geared toward small animal specialties, even in general vet
> education, at the expense of some more basic vet micro training. Addition
> of more and more internal med specialties and residencies but no addition
> of vet micro residencies. Also, I have observed a shift in the focus of
> research at vet schools toward animal models for human diseases for NIH
> funding. So, I ask, where does this leave us? How are we going to replace
> ourselves with the current direction things are heading? How do we get US
> veterinarians interested in vet micro if we continue to reduce vet micro
> classes/lectures in U.S. Vet schools and don't offer Vet micro residency
> programs? If we don't continue to value research for veterinary diseases,
> who will? Is this the impression others a
>  re getting too? Other than WSU and CSU, are any schools supporting vet
> micro training? Maybe I am wrong about all this? Does anyone have an
> opinion?
>
> Thanks,
> Becky Wilkes
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Anne Zajac DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVM-Parasitology
Dept. Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology
VA-MD Regional College of Veterinary Medicine
Virginia Tech
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