Recipient Organization
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY
2229 Lincoln Way
AMES,IA 50011
Performing Department
Veterinary Medicine
Non Technical Summary
Having uniformly trained accredited veterinarians is imperative to maintain trade relations throughout the world. Animal agriculture is a substantial part of the economy. The health and well-being of livestock and poultry relies on well trained veterinarians. Providing consistent training in emerging and exotic animal diseases and requirements of accreditation will aid in the prompt recognition and response to an incursion of infectious disease. A fully trained and accredited corps of veterinarians is essential for Iowa and U.S. agriculture.
Animal Health Component
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Research Effort Categories
Basic
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Applied
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Developmental
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Goals / Objectives
The Center for Food Security and Public Health (CFSPH) at Iowa State University (ISU) and USDA-APHIS-VS have worked together to develop and enhance educational materials on foreign and emerging animal diseases and regulatory issues for veterinarians. This proposal will deliver the Emerging and Exotic Diseases of Animals (EEDA) web-based course to Colleges of Veterinary Medicine for use in the veterinary curriculum and for initial accreditation training. Colleges will access the course through the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges website.
Project Methods
This proposal will: Maintain and enhance the initial accreditation courses currently being used at the 28 colleges/schools; Offer the 29th course for veterinarians who have never been accredited or for students at colleges who choose not to establish the course. To benefit users we have created a separate website (http://nvapiat.org) to host this training. AVICs and their staffs will be able to access the IAT completion records of students and veterinarians who have completed IAT; Support AVIC's and those individuals using the nvapiat.org website. This site has received little use up until now; Provide assistance and reporting to NVAP staff and AVICs in cases where accredited veterinarians need to complete remedial training; Work with instructors at each college to modify the syllabus for EEDA as needed for 2011; Customize course and grading features for each college based on instructor input. (for example, we have some instructors who require a survey be completed to pass the course. We developed custom programming to support such a grading system); Work with an instructor or contact person at each institution for course delivery for college credit and to track and report students' progress through the course; Seek course evaluations from students and instructors and continuously update and maintain the course content; Continuously update 140 disease fact sheets on the CFSPH website used as a resource for the EEDA course; Track students' successful completion of the quizzes for each module required for initial accreditation, and; Issue certificates of completion to each student; Provide summary results to APHIS regarding course completion by students; Distribute EEDA textbooks to students who are taking the course or to graduating seniors who have never received a textbook.