[ACVM] Vet micro education

Sat Jan 2 13:19:09 EST 2016

Hi All,

At Iowa State University, we have Ron Griffith, DVM, MS, Ph.D., DACVM teaching Veterinary Bacteriology and Mycology with help from Gayle Brown, DVM, Ph.D. and Orhan Sahin, DVM, Ph.D., DACVM in the lab.  Ron also teaches the food animal infectious diseases and preventive medicine course. 

Jim Roth, DVM, MS, Ph.D., DACVM and Gayle Brown teach immunology. Jim is also director of the Center for Food Security and Public Health, as someone else has stated, and has on-line course material on exotic diseases available to every veterinary college.

Ken Platt, DVM, Ph.D., DACVM is about in his last year of teaching virology and Brett Sponseller, DVM, Ph.D. is his designated replacement at this point. Brett is also an equine clinician.

Public Health is taught by Radford Davis, DVM, MPH

Matt Brewer, DVM, Ph.D. (took at least part of the ACVM boards this past year I believe) and Doug Jones, VMD, Ph.D. teach parasitology. Parasitology is taught out of Vet Pathology Department.

Charles Thoen, DVM, Ph.D., DAVES teaches an elective course in infectious diseases of captive wild animal

Happy 2016!
Orhan Sahin

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From: ACVM_diplomates [mailto:acvm_diplomates-bounces at lists.osu.edu] On Behalf Of Zhang, Shuping
Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2015 5:02 PM
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Becky and all:
      Over the past few days, we have had some great discussions. It may be time to conduct an official survey about ACVM diplomates' role in veterinary education, service and research. For those who are highly qualified and dedicated to veterinary education, we may want to nominate them as honorary diplomates. There are some colleges switch faculty's responsibility form research to teaching when they are not able to secure research grants anymoe. Many of these faculty are excellent teachers though. 
      Having been on both sides of the isle, I do have some understanding of the challenges facing the entire veterinary profession, including 1) high tuition and fees translates to high student debts which makes it hard to have a 5-year program, 2) university ranking focuses heavily on research dollars and publications which make it impossible to NOT focus on NIH research, 3) ever shrinking state support and budget restraints make the overhead (NIH indirect is usually much higher than USDA, foundation industry indirect) very attractive. 
      So what can we do?  1) Help to create more job opportunities that utilize microbiology/parasitology expertise.  Recently, AAVLD and USAHA have worked together to promote veterinarians in various government positions. We can work with them on this issue. 2) Work with AVMA and AAVC to promote the role of ACVM diplomates in veterinary education and service. 3) Engage USDA and NIH to promote animal health research. I have recently had some discussions with NIH and found out that their understanding of veterinary microbiology and the role of veterinary microbiologists is very limited, if not biased. So to promote our profession, we must educate people in relevant fields and organizations. Kudos to the leaders of ACVM. They are on the target.
      Just some thoughts to share with everyone. Happy New Year to all.
Shuping Zhang 

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At Michigan State University we have the following instructors teaching microbiology courses:

MMG 571  Veterinary Pathogenic Microbiology: Parasites
- Linda Mansfield VMD, PhD - moderator (24 lectures and 6 labs)
- Edward Walker, PhD - teaches entomology (4 lectures and 2 labs)
- Mohamed Satti, PhD - assists with laboratory and clinical competencies

MMG 563  Veterinary Pathogenic Microbiology: Bacteria and Fungi
- Robert Abramovitch, PhD (moderator)
- Martha Mulks, PhD

MMG 565  Veterinary Pathogenic Microbiology: Viruses
- Roger Maes, BVSc, PhD (moderator)
- Steve Bolin, PhD

MMG 559  Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology
- John Fyfe, DVM, PhD (moderator)
- Ronald Erskine, DVM, MS, PhD
- Richard Ballander, MS, PhD

Regards, Linda

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At OSU we have Dr. Antoinette Marsh, who is also a PhD non DVM, and has great clinical perspective and also brings classical and molecular to the table.  Endangered species is a good way to describe people like this.

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We have Heather Stockdale Walden here at UF.  She's a PhD without a DVM, but has a really great clinical perspective and a broad-range understanding of both molecular and classical parasitology, which makes her an endangered species.  She teaches the DVM course here.  I was on the search committee when she was hired, and it was a fight to get her hired over other candidates who had R01s but were basically doing human medicine, sometimes not even using animal models, and would give blank looks if asked about how to diagnose acanthocephalans or pentastomids.  Teaching students is a lower priority for university administrations than bringing in indirect costs.  Unless states return to funding universities, I'm not optimistic about the future of veterinary education.  The AVMA's decision to accredit the distributed model for veterinary education was the death knell for veterinary medicine as a profession- veterinarians will become technicians.

Jim

Jim Wellehan, DVM, MS, PhD, DACZM, DACVM(Virology, Bacteriology/Mycology), DECZM(Herpetology) Assistant Professor Zoological Medicine Service University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine http://www.vetmed.ufl.edu/about-the-college/faculty-directory/jim-wellehan/

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All -
        I once heard (with no data to back it up) that CSU was unusual in that they had a dedicated veterinary parasitologist who taught at the vet school.  I think that's probably not true, but I'd be interested to hear from our new parasitology members how distributed they are, and if they feel that the vet schools (in general) have specialized/dedicated parasitology faculty, and if the academic leadership uses them in teaching the vet students?
Thanks
Dave

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Subject: [ACVM] Vet micro education

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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