Mireille Meylan, Prof.Dr.med.vet., MS, PhD, Dr Habil, DACVIM (LAIM), DECBHM: No financial relationships to disclose
Issues associated with new challenges in clinical teaching of food animal medicine, especially in the frame of clinical rotations, will be discussed primarily based on new challenges to be dealt with at Swiss universities, but also in comparison to the situation in other universities in Europe. Shortage in the numbers of employees due to budget restrictions, limited interest for academic carreers and specialization programs, restricted working hours for all groups of veterinarians and students (without increasing their numbers), requirements for more practical (labor-intensive) teaching methods, are some of the challenges that we will need to meet in the next years, without reducing the level of education of the students at the end of their veterinary curriculum. Methods implemented to face these challenges at different European universities will be presented and discussed, and compared with methods used in North America, with the aim of learning from each other's successes and failures in order to optimize clinical teaching in food animal medicine in the future.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion, participants will have a better idea of the challenges met in clinical teaching of food animal medicine at European universities.
Upon completion, participants will be able to reflect on and compare the challenges met at European and North American universities.
Upon completion, participants will have reflected on possible ways for meeting these challenges and exchanged experience with teachers at other universities meeting the same or other challenges in the teaching of food animal medicine.
