scholarly journals Determination of the interest of Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi veterinary students in veterinary medicine and pharmacology: Implications for counselling

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 52-62
Author(s):  
A. Saganuwan S. ◽  
G. Egbe-Okpenge E.
Keyword(s):  
Veterinary Medicine ◽  
Veterinary Students

scholarly journals Molecular detection of Chlamydia psittaci and Chlamydia felis in human keratoconjunctivitis cases

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-137
Author(s):  
S. Jazi ◽  
A. Mokhtari ◽  
A. Ebrahimi Kahrizsangi
Keyword(s):  
Veterinary Medicine ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Laboratory Tests ◽  
Molecular Detection ◽  
Chlamydia Psittaci ◽  
Diagnostic Measures ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
Low Efficiency ◽  
Low Rate

Given the high incidence of keratoconjunctivitis in Iran (approximately 3.6–53.9%) and low efficiency of clinical diagnostic measures, application of laboratory tests for detection of different keratoconjunctivitis/conjunctivitis causes and determination of their accurate prevalence is essential. In this research, conjunctival samples were collected from 100 patients with keratoconjunctivitis signs referred to an eye hospital of Iran. After DNA extraction, PCR was carried out for detection of Chlamydia psittaci and Chlamydia felis. PCR positive products were further subjected for DNA sequencing. In this study, one sample was Chlamydia psittaci positive and none was positive for Chlamydia felis. There wasn’t a statistically significant relationship between working in the field of veterinary medicine or keeping a pet and Chlamydia psittaci prevalence (P>0.05). This study showed a low rate of chlamydial keratoconjunctivitis and therefore further studies for detection of other causes are necessary.

scholarly journals The Ethics of Canadian Entry-To-Practice Pain Competencies: How Are We Doing?

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judy Watt-Watson ◽  
Elizabeth Peter ◽  
A John Clark ◽  
Anne Dewar ◽  
Thomas Hadjistavropoulos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Veterinary Medicine ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Ethical Practice ◽  
Veterinary Students ◽  
Canadian Health ◽  
Pain Knowledge ◽  
Key Competencies

BACKGROUND: Although unrelieved pain continues to represent a significant problem, prelicensure educational programs tend to include little content related to pain. Standards for professional competence strongly influence curricula and have the potential to ensure that health science students have the knowledge and skill to manage pain in a way that also allows them to meet professional ethical standards.OBJECTIVES: To perform a systematic, comprehensive examination to determine the entry-to-practice competencies related to pain required for Canadian health science and veterinary students, and to examine how the presence and absence of pain competencies relate to key competencies of an ethical nature.METHODS: Entry-to-practice competency requirements related to pain knowledge, skill and judgment were surveyed from national, provincial and territorial documents for dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, psychology and veterinary medicine.RESULTS: Dentistry included two and nursing included nine specific pain competencies. No references to competencies related to pain were found in the remaining health science documents. In contrast, the national competency requirements for veterinary medicine, surveyed as a comparison, included nine pain competencies. All documents included competencies pertaining to ethics.CONCLUSIONS: The lack of competencies related to pain has implications for advancing skillful and ethical practice. The lack of attention to pain competencies limits the capacity of health care professionals to alleviate suffering, foster autonomy and use resources justly. Influencing professional bodies to increase the number of required entry-to-practice pain competencies may ultimately have the greatest impact on education and practice.

A cabinet of the ordinary: domesticating veterinary education, 1766–1799

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
KIT HEINTZMAN
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Veterinary Medicine ◽  
Natural History ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Travel Literature ◽  
Resource Constraints ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Veterinary Education ◽  
Veterinary Students ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries

AbstractIn the late eighteenth century, the Ecole vétérinaire d'Alfort was renowned for its innovative veterinary education and for having one of the largest natural history and anatomy collections in France. Yet aside from a recent interest in the works of one particular anatomist, the school's history has been mostly ignored. I examine here the fame of the school in eighteenth-century travel literature, the historic connection between veterinary science and natural history, and the relationship between the school's hospital and its esteemed cabinet. Using the correspondence papers of veterinary administrators, state representatives and competing scientific institutions during the French Revolution, I argue that resource constraints and the management of anatomical and natural history specimens produced new disciplinary boundaries between natural history, veterinary medicine and human medicine, while reinforcing geographic divisions between the local and the foreign in the study of non-human animals. This paper reconstructs theAncien Régimereasoning that veterinary students would benefit from a global perspective on animality, and the Revolutionary government's rejection of that premise. Under republicanism, veterinary medicine became domestic.

scholarly journals Conscientious Objection to Animal Testing: A Preliminary Survey Among Italian Medical and Veterinary Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilaria Baldelli ◽  
Bartolomeo Biolatti ◽  
Pierluigi Santi ◽  
Giovanni Murialdo ◽  
Anna Maria Bassi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Veterinary Medicine ◽  
Educational Interventions ◽  
Animal Experimentation ◽  
Human Medicine ◽  
Animal Testing ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Veterinary Students ◽  
Knowledge And Attitudes ◽  
Italian Law ◽  
The Right

The use of animals for educational and research purposes is common in both veterinary and human medicine degree courses, and one that involves important ethical considerations. The aim of this study was to assess the extent of differences between the knowledge and attitudes of veterinary students and medical students on animal bioethics, on alternative strategies and on their right to conscientiously object to animal experimentation. To this end, a questionnaire was completed by 733 students (384 human medicine students (HMS) and 349 veterinary medicine students (VMS)). VMS were more aware than HMS (72.2% and 59.6%, respectively) of the existence of an Italian law on the right to conscientiously object to animal experimentation. However, very few of them had exercised this right. Many VMS (43.3%) felt that animal bioethics courses should be mandatory (only 17.4% of HMS felt the same way). More VMS than HMS (81.7% and 59.1%, respectively) expressed an interest in attending a course on alternatives to animal experimentation. The data suggest the need for appropriate educational interventions, in order to allow students to make choices based on ethical principles. Fostering close collaborations between departments of human medicine and veterinary medicine, for example, through shared study modules, could promote the development of ethical competence as a basic skill of students of both veterinary and human medicine courses.

scholarly journals Opinions towards Companion Animals and Their Welfare: A Survey of Croatian Veterinary Students

Animals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomislav Mikuš ◽  
Mario Ostović ◽  
Ivana Sabolek ◽  
Kristina Matković ◽  
Željko Pavičić ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Veterinary Medicine ◽  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Companion Animals ◽  
First Year ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Veterinary Students ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Study Programme ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Before And After

This survey was the first one investigating opinions of veterinary students in Croatia towards companion animals and their welfare, with special reference to dogs and cats as the most popular companion animals in the European Union. The study included students of all six years of the integrated undergraduate and graduate veterinary medicine study programme in Croatia. First-year students were surveyed twice, before and after having attended the course on animal welfare. Student opinions were assessed on the basis of their mean responses to five-point Likert scale questions and frequency of responses to Yes/No/I do not know questions and ratio scale questions. Study results revealed students to have strongly positive opinions towards companion animals and their welfare. The majority of student statements did not differ significantly between the first and sixth study years or before and after having attended the animal welfare course in the first study year, mostly yielding a straight, non-fluctuating line. Students were not sure whether welfare of companion dogs and cats was compromised. Study results pointed to reliable and reasonable opinions of veterinary medicine students in Croatia towards companion animals and their welfare, as well as to the welfare issues these species may be facing nowadays.

scholarly journals Assessing Service-Learning in Community-Based Veterinary Medicine as a Pedagogical Approach to Promoting Student Confidence in Addressing Access to Veterinary Care

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin King ◽  
Megan Mueller ◽  
Gregory Wolfus ◽  
Emily McCobb
Keyword(s):  
Veterinary Medicine ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Care Plan ◽  
Pedagogical Approach ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Veterinary Students ◽  
Confidence Levels ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Hours ◽  
Student Confidence

Community-based veterinary medicine is a growing field, and veterinary students need to be able to work with clients facing complex barriers to receiving veterinary care for their pet. Many veterinary clients experience challenges accessing veterinary care due to financial limitations, transportation access, language comprehension, the ability to comply to the care plan (e.g., disabilities, physical, or mental health challenges, substance use), the ability to come to the clinic during the hours that it is open, and the ability to communicate outside of the appointment. The goal of this study was to assess student confidence levels working in accessible care before and after participating in a service-learning-based community veterinary rotation. Results show significantly higher student confidence levels for every barrier after completing the Tufts at Tech (TAT) Clinical Rotation at Cummings Veterinary School of Medicine. Additionally, 86% (n = 85) of students strongly agreed or agreed that TAT affected their thoughts about community medicine, and 77% (n = 76) strongly agreed or agreed that the rotation affected their feelings about underserved clients. Service-learning rotations in community-based veterinary medicine could be one pedagogical approach in training veterinary students to work with a diverse clientele.

scholarly journals To the question of establishing the limitation period of death in domestic cats

2021 ◽  
pp. 65-69
Author(s):  
J. K. Serdioucov ◽  
◽  
D. Yu. Shkundia ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Veterinary Medicine ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Post Mortem ◽  
Domestic Cats ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Forensic Research ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Further Development

One of the main objects of forensic research in the forensic veterinary industry is the corpses of animals, including cats. They are killed with the help of various tools or objects, dropped from a height, poisoned deliberately, as a result, the animals die. At the same time, the question of finding out the limitation period of death arises very often. In the branch of forensic veterinary medicine there are only a few scattered works, which present the results of studies of the criteria for establishing the limitation period of death. For research, various methodological approaches are used to study the dynamics and establish a correlation between the degree of development of post-mortem changes and the prescription of death. Today, a large number of methods and methods for determining the prescription of death of animals are known. The following methods are most often used: visual palpation, thermometric, experimental theoretical, morphological and morphometric, biophysical, biochemical. Thus, the determination of the prescription of limitation period of death is relevant, since the deaths of these animals are increasingly becoming the basis for the institution of criminal cases, in addition, the existing methods for establishing the prescription of the death of animals, including cats require further development of actual, statistical data for determining the prescription the limitation period of death, since the material accumulated for today is to a certain extent insufficient. Multifactorial methods for establishing the prescription of the limitation period of death using an integrated and systematic approach have not been developed.

scholarly journals Monitoring of compliance of quality and safety of cooked smoked sausages “Servelat” with the requirements of the national standard

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (101) ◽  
pp. 44-49
Author(s):  
M. S. Khimych ◽  
K. O. Rodionova ◽  
V. Z. Salata ◽  
T. S. Matviishyn ◽  
O. M. Gorobei ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Veterinary Medicine ◽  
Meat Products ◽  
Retail Trade ◽  
Consumer Information ◽  
National Standard ◽  
Total Production ◽  
Quality And Safety ◽  
General Toxicity ◽  
Microbiological Parameters

Meat products, in particular sausages, play a significant role in the structure of retail trade among other product groups. Sausages are a traditional product of the food industry in Ukraine, and the share of cooked and smoked sausages is up to 51 % of total production. Today, fierce competition encourages producers to introduce new recipes into production, which, unfortunately, has led to a sharp increase in cases of falsification of sausages. In addition, a significant number of low-capacity enterprises are involved in production, which often leads to a decrease in the sanitary quality of manufactured products. Therefore, the purpose of our study was to analyze the compliance of quality and safety indicators of cooked and smoked sausage of the highest grade of different manufacturers to DSTU 4591:2006 “Cooked smoked sausages. General specifications”. The material of our research were samples of cooked smoked sausage of the highest grade “Servelat” of several domestic producers. The research was conducted on the basis of Multidisciplinary Laboratory of Veterinary Medicine (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnologies of Odesa State Agrarian University) and on the basis of the laboratory of Department of Veterinary-Sanitary Inspection (Stepan Gzhytskyi National University of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnologies, Lviv). Sampling, organoleptic analysis of sausages and determination of microbiological parameters were performed in accordance with current regulations, determination of chemical composition – using an express analyzer FoodScan, general toxicity – express method using the infusoria Colpoda steinii. According to the results of the analysis of the labeling, it is established that the packaging of all investigated products contains the basic production and consumer information in accordance with Article 6 of the Law of Ukraine “On information for consumers about food”, but on the labels of samples № 2 and 3 there is no data provided for in Article 23 of this Law – the content of unsaturated fats, sugars and salt. The study of organoleptic and microbiological parameters of sausage samples demonstrates their compliance with the requirements of the regulated DSTU 4591:2006 “Cooked smoked sausages. General specifications”. The general toxicity of sausages was also not detected. The analysis of physicochemical parameters revealed non-compliance of sample № 3 with the requirements of the national standard in terms of mass content of moisture – excess by 5.72 %. In addition, a sufficiently high collagen content of 2.3 ± 0.04 was found in sausage loaves of sample № 1.

Attitudes of Turkish veterinary students towards farm animal welfare

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-330
Author(s):  
E Çavuşoglu ◽  
E Uzabaci
Keyword(s):  
Veterinary Medicine ◽  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Farm Animal Welfare ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Veterinary Students ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Strongly Agree ◽  
Medicine Education

People's awareness of livestock welfare has increased in recent years and veterinarians have a critical role to play in maintaining and improving these standards. The aim of this study was to explore the attitude of veterinary students to livestock welfare and an online questionnaire was utilised to gauge the opinions of students from the Bursa Uludag University Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Turkey. A five-point Likert scale covered judgments ranging from 'Strongly disagree' to 'Strongly agree.' Female students were found to have a higher score for questions related to the welfare of livestock than males. It was also found that students yet to undertake courses in clinical science and animal welfare, ie first and second years, gave higher scores than third, fourth and fifth years who had completed both of these. Moreover, students having owned or dealt previously with livestock provided lower animal welfare scores than their counterparts who had done neither. Seemingly, the sensitivity of veterinary students decreases during the latter stages of their education. To conclude, we suggest further investigation into the extent to which veterinary medicine education influences students' attitudes to animal welfare as they progress through the course.

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