Veterinary Medicine and Public Health in the PBL curriculum: interdisciplinary approach and the role

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Veterinary Medicine and Public Health in the PBL
curriculum interdisciplinary approach and the
role of a pathologist

• Suzana Tkalcic, DVM, PhD
• Veterinary Pathologist

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• PAST experiences
• Human medicine vs. Veterinary medicine
• Disconnect
• PRESENT TRENDS
• Collaborative efforts
• Complement each other
• Common goal preserve the health

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Veterinarian's Oath

• Being admitted to the profession of veterinary
  medicine, I solemnly swear to use my scientific
  knowledge and skills for the benefit of society
  through the protection of animal health, the
  relief of animal suffering, the conservation of
  animal resources, the promotion of public health,
  and the advancement of medical knowledge.
• I will practice my profession conscientiously,
  with dignity, and in keeping with the principles
  of veterinary medical ethics.
• I accept as a lifelong obligation the continual
  improvement of my professional knowledge and
  competence.

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New era-new issues

• Food safety
• ZOONOSES
• Disaster planning
• Foreign diseases
• Bio- and agroterrorism

Public health
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• Know it all

• Too late
• Broad perspective/
• Forensic approach
• Open minded

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ONE MEDICINEONE PATHOLOGY!!!
Globalization
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VETERINARY MEDICINE
Tuberculosis
Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae Leptospira
interrogans Trichinella spiralis
Toxoplasmosis
EHEC Bacillus anthracis

• Many species
• Medical thinking understanding principles
• PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
• Factors immunosupression

Salmonellosis
Echinococcus granulosus Rabies Scabies
BSE Brucella abortus Ringworm
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• On the same mission, but little different
• pure PBL
• Forefronts of vet med
• education
• Innovative approaches
• Founding principles

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FOUNDING PRINCIPLES

• Student-centered,
• life-long learning
• Active learning
• Reverence for life
• Strategic partnerships and alliances

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Problem Based Learning

• Preclinical 2 years of VETERINARY BASIC
  SCIENCES, veterinary issues, clinical skills
• 64 cases/Evidence Based Medicine
• BRAINSTORMING, small group discussions, GR
• 2 threads
• INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH
• COMPARATIVE MEDICINE

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3rd year Clinical Rotations (6/18)

• Veterinary Public Health and Human-Animal
  Interactions
• Food and Feed Safety
• USDA accreditation, Foreign Animal Diseases and
  International Veterinary Medicine
• Effects of the war and natural disasters on
  animal and public health the role of
  VETERINARIANS
• Foreign animal diseases-Plum Island experience
• Diagnostic Laboratory and Pathology
• Laboratory animal and research zoonotic diseases
  of lab animals
• Zoo Animal and Wildlife Clinical rotation
• Orientation, essays, PPT Zoonotic diseases in
  Zoos, Public Health issues re public, liability
  issues, quarantine

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PUBLIC HEALTH how we do it?

• Incorporated in the program
• Pathologists, epidemiologists, clinicians,
  diagnosticians, virologists, microbiologists,
  toxicologists
• Working together, thinking together
• WUHS CVM incorporated with the human health
  sciences
• Plan for an integrated College of PH with case
  based curriculum that involves veterinary and
  human medicine

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(COM)PASSION, HUMANISM, CARING, KNOWLEDGE

• Core values
• Emphasize
• awareness and role of veterinarians in the modern
  society
• recognition of the diseases affecting
  human-animal relationshipsknowledge
• Expectation
• future DVM to take its role and contribute to
  society in Public Health domains (local and
  global levels)

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• Brucellosis
• Camelpox
• Campylo-
• bacteriosis
• Plague (Yersinia pestis)
• Q-fever
• Salmonellosis

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ZOONOTIC DISEASES

• http//www.petdoc.ws/zoonotic_diseases.htm