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Curriculum Review Update
Margaret V. Root Kustritz, DVM, PhD, DACT
Professor, Vice-chair, Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Assistant Dean of Education
GOALS – With this curriculum review, the College will:
- create graduates with entry-level competence and confidence and
provide the scientific foundation required for acquisition of discipline or
species expertise, including an emphasis on critical thinking that
integrates basic science and clinical learning, and appropriate
understanding and use of the veterinary literature.
- create graduates interested in and capable of career paths outside of
practice.
- decrease cost of curriculum delivery.
WORK COMPLETED TO DATE
- Finalization of a plan of work with duties, identification of internal and
external constituent groups, and timelines
- Identification of a dedicated space for curriculum revision meetings
and setting of a schedule for regular meetings
- Gathering of information from other schools of veterinary medicine that
have recently completed curriculum revision regarding process, pitfalls,
successes
- Solicitation from faculty of their impressions of the former curriculum
and the current curriculum
- Facilitation of a conversation and brainstorming session about
curriculum review with college educators; this will be repeated monthly
- Collection of information from veterinary practitioners regarding
competencies expected of newly graduated veterinarians by species
track
- Provision of faculty with requested resources including pre-requisites
of the College; the final report from the North American Veterinary
Medical Education Consortium; information about the North American
Veterinary Licensing Examination, which is taken by all practitioners;
American Veterinary Medical Association Council on Education
accreditation standards for curriculum
- Comprehensive evaluation of track requirements for the final year of
the curriculum and faculty approval of those track recommendations
- Evaluation of ways to streamline rotation offerings in the final year of
the curriculum
- Solicitation of input from faculty, staff, students, and outside
constituents to determine overarching goals to guide review of the early
part of the curriculum
- External review of our curriculum review process by an educational
specialist
- Work with the CFO and accounting groups to determine costs of
education by course
- Creation of a draft curriculum and meetings with faculty groups to
determine course structure, core content, sequencing, and estimate of
student workload.
- Acceptance of draft curriculum by faculty vote
COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE CURRICULUM 2013
Year 1 Fall – Anatomy I – Clinical Skills I – Microscopic Anatomy – Veterinary Biochemistry, Nutrition, and
Genetics – Physiology I – Professional Development I – GOALe (orientation) – Foundations of
Interprofessional Communications and Collaboration
Year 1 Spring – Anatomy II – Clinical Skills II – Physiology II – Professional Development II – GOALe –
Critical Scientific Reading – Immunology – Basic Pathology – Agents of Disease I – Preventive Medicine
Year 2 Fall – Agents of Disease II – Pharmacology I – Systemic Pathology – Clinical Pathology – Clinical
Skills III – Clinical Epidemiology – Public Health – Small Animal Medicine I – Diagnostics Laboratory
Year 2 Spring – Small Animal Medicine II – Small Animal Surgery I – Large Animal Medicine I – Large
Animal Surgery I – Veterinary Imaging I – Clinical Skills IV – Pharmacology II – Professional
Development III – Non-traditional Pets – Avian Core
Year 3 Fall – Small Animal Medicine III – Small Animal Surgery II and Anesthesia – Large Animal
Medicine II – Large Animal Surgery II – Veterinary Imaging II – Comparative Specialties – Comparative
Theriogenology – Clinical Skills V – Professional Development IV
Year 3 Spring – Tracked curriculum
Equine – Orientation to Clinics, Equine I, Equine II, Equine Problems
Food Animal – Orientation to Clinics, Food Animal I, Food Animal II, Obstetrics Laboratory, Food Animal
Problems
Mixed – Orientation to Clinics, Equine I, Food Animal I, Small animal I, Obstetrics Laboratory, a problems
course
Research / Public Health – Orientation to Clinics, Equine I, Food Animal I, Small Animal I, a problems
course
Small Animal – Orientation to Clinics, Small Animal I, Small Animal II, Small Animal Problems
OVERARCHING GOALS
- Meet accreditation standards
- Ensure changes are cost-effective or justified
- Stimulate clinical reasoning / problem-solving / decision-making, promote retention with
emphasis on day 1 knowledge and abilities and relevant assessments
- Provide opportunities (faculty development and time in schedule) for active learning, critical
thinking and hands-on (laboratory, external opportunities)
- Optimize content
- Core versus elective
- Medical versus non-medical
- Consider placement of material within courses and courses within semester and curriculum,
with attention to vertical integration (medical and non-medical content) and conscious redundancy
- Health promotion and disease prevention in curriculum
- Build on existing strengths
- Build in checks/balances system to develop, adjust and maintain structure
FUTURE WORK
- Mapping of curriculum
- Refining of 3rd year spring and elective courses by faculty specific to tracks
- Implementation goals – active learning, teaching methodologies, determination of core content
- Outcomes assessment
CURRICULUM REVIEW BOARD
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John Fetrow (VPM)
Erin Malone (VPM)
Dan Feeney (VCS)
Mike Conzemius (VCS)
Jim Mickelson (VBS)
Dave Brown (VBS)
Peggy Root (VCS and Assistant Dean of Education)
Electives
Year 1 Fall – Topics in Zoo Animal Medicine – Opportunities in International and Cultural Immersion –
Introduction to Swine Production Medicine – Theriogenology Palpation Laboratories (required by track) –
Integraive medicine – Avian Medicine and Surgery – Animals and Solciety – Clinical Correlations –
Research elective – LA Community Mentoring
Specifics of work in progress can be found at the blog entitled
“UMN CVM Curriculum Review 2011”
(http://blog.lib.umn.edu/rootk001/myblog).
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
College of Veterinary Medicine