Fetrow John, Royster Erin, Morin Dawn, Molgaard Laura, Wingert Debra, Yost Jessica, Overton Michael, Apley Mike, Godden Sandra, Chebel Ricardo, Cramer Gerard, Sorge Ulrike, Schefers Jeremy, Goldsmith Timothy, Anderson David, Hanzlicek Gregg, Angelique Dwyer K, Dwyer Linda
J Vet Med Educ. 2020 Jun;47(3):250-262. doi: 10.3138/jvme.1117-161r.
The need for consortial programs to provide advanced education in food animal veterinary production medicine has been recognized and lauded for nearly three decades. This article describes one effort to create a dairy production medicine curriculum funded by a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Higher Education Challenge Grant. This National Center of Excellence in Dairy Production Medicine Education for Veterinarians is housed at the Dairy Education Center of the University of Minnesota and the project was a collaboration of the University of Minnesota, the University of Illinois, the University of Georgia, and Kansas State University. The article reviews the need for innovative ways to educate students who will optimally serve the dairy industry, provides a broad overview of the process of developing and delivering the eight-week dairy production medicine curriculum, and describes the challenges faced and lessons learned as a result of offering such a program.
近三十年来，人们已经认识到并称赞联合体项目在食用动物兽医生产医学方面提供高等教育的必要性。本文介绍了一项由美国农业部（USDA）高等教育挑战资助项目资助的创建奶牛生产医学课程的努力。这个全国兽医奶牛生产医学教育卓越中心设在明尼苏达大学的乳品教育中心，该项目是明尼苏达大学、伊利诺伊大学、佐治亚大学和堪萨斯州立大学的合作项目。本文回顾了以创新方式培养能够为乳制品行业提供最佳服务的学生的必要性，对为期八周的奶牛生产医学课程的开发和授课过程进行了全面概述，并描述了提供这样一个项目所面临的挑战和吸取的经验教训。
