Progress 09/15/20 to 09/14/23
Outputs
Target Audience:Food animal veterinarians, veterinary pathologists, livestock producers. Changes/Problems:For a period of time, the resident was not able to travel to South Dakota to complete part of the training due to Covid-related travel restrictions. This part of the training was rescheduled at a later date. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The resident attended the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians annual meeting, took the CL Davis foundation Descriptive Course for anatomical pathology residents and completed her residency in veterinary anatomic pathology. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?
Nothing Reported
What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
This project supported the residency program of Dr. Hilary Ward to be trained as a veterinary anatomic pathologist with focus in food animals at the University of Minnesota and South Dakota State University. Dr. Ward completed the residency in three years. The third year of residency included working more independently on diagnostic cases, while still under the guidance of board-certified pathologists. The resident continued to work with pathologists at SDSU and the University of Minnesota to complete her training. She participated in the CL Davis foundation Descriptive Course for anatomical pathology residents. After completing the 3-year residency, the resident took the American College of Veterinary Pathologists (ACVP) board exams and passed them. The resident applied for a job as a board-certified veterinary pathologist at the SDSU veterinary diagnostic laboratory and was hired. During her residency, Dr. Ward participated in teaching 2-week rotations of gross pathology to 4-6 fourth year veterinary students, approximately every two to four weeks for approximately two years. In this role she was responsible for teaching fourth year veterinary students how to perform necropsies on dogs, cats, goats, camelids and horses; recognized and create a differential diagnosis list for macroscopic lesions; create an associated morphologic diagnosis and summarize findings in comments that would help students practice client communication. Dr. Ward also contributed to DVM education by preparing recorded presentations to provide the entire first and second year veterinary student classes with a complete gross pathology case powerpoint presentation as a complement to basic and systemic pathology lectures.In addition, she held a production animal lunch-and-learn meeting for approximately 20 veterinary students for the UMN pathology and production animal clubs with the goal of helping future pathologists and production animal veterinarians recognize and describe gross pathology in order to make appropriate postmortem diagnostic and treatment decisions. During her second and third year of the residency, Dr. Ward helped train the first and second year residents. With the production animal cases that she was exposed to at SDSU, she was able to take these cases back to her resident mates at Minnesota and facilitate production animal related descriptive histopathology rounds. Dr. Ward taught three veterinary technician students how to necropsy small animals and identify organs as a favor for the veterinary teaching hospital. During her time at the South Dakota State University, Animal Disease Research and Diagnostic Laboratory, she carried out numerous production animal necropsies and processing of tissue cases. While in this role, she was able to impart additional knowledge upon approximately 10 to 12 undergraduate pre-veterinary necropsy student workers regarding gross lesions, disease processes, differential diagnoses and corresponding clinical signs. Additionally, this experience gave her a strong foothold in the "culture" of rural South Dakota and the expectations of producers and veterinarians the ADRDL serves, through daily communications with producers and veterinarians and by volunteering in the community for Agricultural events. Dr. Ward became a mentor of the first-year veterinary student class associated with Professional Program in Veterinary Medicine (PPVM) or 2+2 program at SDSU in 2020 where she was able to talk about her experiences as a veterinary technician prior to veterinary school, her veterinary school experience and her experience as an anatomic pathology resident split between SDSU and UMN. She also presented production animal cases to the class as an exercise work up in cooperation with a second mentor who presented small animal cases. As a newly graduated and boarded Anatomic Pathologist working at the SDSU ADRDL she is able to continue to serve the community that offered her an invaluable opportunity especially since she came into veterinary school and anatomic pathology with next to no production animal experience of any kind. Now she not only serves producers and veterinarians in South Dakota and Minnesota, but from Nebraska, Iowa, Colorado, Illinois, North Dakota, and Montana. The opportunity to share her time as an anatomic pathology resident with SDSU set her up for success in the role she now holds where she regularly talks with producers and veterinarians of the area about past and current cases, diagnostic results and finalized reports. She continues to mentor pre-veterinary and veterinary students by acting as pre-veterinary advisor to approximately 30 undergraduates with varying experiences and interests and currently two first year PPVM Master's students. She will design and lead the discussion for a bovine respiratory disease case for clinical correlations composed of 40 first- and second-year veterinary students and likely participate in current and future swine research projects that will involve graduate students. She currently serves the board for the Brookings Regional Humane Society and offers her veterinary services once per week for the animals in their care.
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Progress 09/15/21 to 09/14/22
Outputs
Target Audience:The target audience during this reporting period is limited to the veterinary anatomic pathologist resident receiving the training. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The resident attended the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians annual meeting, where she presented a poster. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?
Nothing Reported
What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?During the third year of residency, the resident will continue to work with pathologists at SDSU and the University of Minnesota to complete her training. The third year of residency includes working more independently on diagnostic cases, while still under the guidance of board-certified pathologists. The third year also uncludes some time specifically allocated to preparation for the board exams, which the resident will take in August. In addition, the resident will participate in the CL Davis foundation Descriptive Course for anatomical pathology residents.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
The veterinary pathology resident progressed well in her second year of residency. She participated in all aspects of the University of Minnesota residency program and she developed her basic pathology skills. In addition, she was able to resume the visits to the partner laboratory at SDSU that were interrupted during the pandemic. At SDSU, the resident focuses in food animal cases and is assuming more independence in the necropsy and interpretation of cases under the guidance of board-certified pathologists. The resident attended the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians annual meeting, where she presented a poster.
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Progress 09/15/20 to 09/14/21
Outputs
Target Audience:The target audience during this reporting period is limited to the veterinary anatomic pathologist resident receiving the training. The intent in the first year has been to follow the standard resident training protocol with the exception of including training at the partner laboratory in South Dakota. Due to COVID-19 restrictions during the pandemic, only one week of training in South Dakota was included in the first year training period. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The major objective of this project is to develop a training program within a veterinary anatomic pathology residency that includes a focus on food animal or production animal diagnostic experience. The three year program requires a foundational first year that is common for all residents regardles of specialty interest and this has been successfully completed during the first year of this project for the resident included in the program. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?The program was announced via a press release and newsletter: https://vetmed.umn.edu/news/usda-nifa-awards-cvm-more-27-million-research What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?The second year of the residency program will include more time tailored to developing food animal diagnostic skills and experience. Clinical rounds for food animal cases have been added along with additional weeks at the South Dakota Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory to see a broader mix of species and cases.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
The major accomplishment for this phase of the project has been to maintain the training through the residency program despite the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Visits to the diagnostic laboratory at South Dakota State University (SDSU) were limited due to safety protocols, but one visit was able to be scheduled and completed. The first year was intended to follow the normal track for veterinary anatomic pathology residents and this was completed as intended except for the limited time at the SDSU laboratory.
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