Wall P G
School of Public Health and Population Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Rev Sci Tech. 2009 Aug;28(2):493-501. doi: 10.20506/rst.28.2.1882.
A big challenge for veterinary educators is to stimulate interest in public health medicine and make the curriculum interesting, and relevant, to veterinary students. Veterinary public health encompasses many areas, including zoonosis control, food safety, animal health and biosecurity, animals as sentinels of environmental hazards and the contribution of animal waste to pollution of food and water, so there is no shortage of ammunition for the veterinary educator in the competition for students' attention. Veterinary educators, not the students, will have failed if graduates complete their studies without being convinced of the importance and relevance of veterinary public health.
兽医教育工作者面临的一大挑战是激发学生对公共卫生医学的兴趣,并使课程对兽医专业学生既有吸引力又具有相关性。兽医公共卫生涵盖许多领域,包括人畜共患病控制、食品安全、动物健康与生物安全、动物作为环境危害的哨兵以及动物粪便对食物和水污染的影响,因此在吸引学生注意力的竞争中,兽医教育工作者不乏素材。如果毕业生完成学业后仍不相信兽医公共卫生的重要性和相关性,那就是兽医教育工作者的失职,而不是学生的问题。