Cornish Amelia, Fisher Andrew D, Collins Teresa, Degeling Chris, Freire Rafael, Hazel Susan J, Hood Jennifer, Lloyd Janice K F, Phillips Clive J C, Stafford Kevin J, Tzioumis Vicky, McGreevy Paul D
Sydney School of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.
Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia.
Vet Sci. 2018 Jul 12;5(3):65. doi: 10.3390/vetsci5030065.
The importance of animal welfare and ethics (AWE) within the veterinary education should reflect community concerns and expectations about AWE, and the professional demands of veterinary accreditation on the first day of practice (or 'Day One' competences). Currently, much interest and debate surrounds the treatment of production animals, particularly around live export. To explore the attitudes to AWE of veterinary students in Australia and New Zealand, a survey was undertaken to (i) understand what students consider important AWE topics for initial production animal competence; and (ii) ascertain how these priorities correlated with gender, area of intended practice and stage-of-study. The results from 575 veterinary students showed that all students ranked strategies to address painful husbandry procedures as the most important issues on their first day in production animal practice. Additionally, it was found that the importance students assigned to an understanding of human⁻animal interactions declined as they progressed through the veterinary course. In contrast, the importance of an understanding of euthanasia issues for production animals increased for male students as they progressed through the course, and remained consistently high in females. Females also gave higher ranking to the importance of understanding production animal stress associated with transport, and ranked strategies to address painful husbandry procedures more important than did males. These findings should help the development of AWE teaching resources that address students' attitudes and competence and that can be delivered when students are most receptive.
动物福利与伦理（AWE）在兽医教育中的重要性应反映社会对AWE的关注和期望，以及兽医认证对执业首日（即“第一天”能力）的专业要求。目前，生产动物的待遇问题引发了诸多关注和讨论，尤其是活畜出口方面。为探究澳大利亚和新西兰兽医专业学生对AWE的态度，开展了一项调查，旨在：（i）了解学生认为对于初步掌握生产动物相关能力而言重要的AWE主题；（ii）确定这些优先事项与性别、意向执业领域和学习阶段之间的关联。575名兽医专业学生的调查结果显示，所有学生均将应对痛苦饲养程序的策略列为生产动物实践首日最重要的问题。此外，研究发现，随着学生在兽医课程学习进程中的推进，他们对理解人兽互动重要性的重视程度有所下降。相比之下，随着课程推进，男学生对理解生产动物安乐死问题的重视程度增加，而女学生对此的重视程度一直较高。女学生还更看重理解与运输相关的生产动物应激的重要性，并且在应对痛苦饲养程序的策略方面，她们比男学生给予了更高的重要性评级。这些研究结果应有助于开发AWE教学资源，以解决学生的态度和能力问题，并能在学生最易接受时进行传授。
