The First Shared Online Curriculum Resources for Veterinary Undergraduate Learning and Teaching in Animal Welfare and Ethics in Australia and New Zealand
Abstract
:Simple Summary
Abstract
1. Introduction
1.1. The Importance of AWE for Veterinarians
1.2. What Skills Are Required?
1.3. How Can These Skills Be Best Developed in Veterinary Students?
The Online Portal
2. Methods
2.1. A Negotiated Curriculum
2.2. Scenarios for Case-Based Learning
2.3. Automated Search Engine for Hot Topics
2.4. The “Human Continuum”
2.5. A Quality of Life Assessment Tool (QOL)
2.6. Communication Training Spaces
2.7. Team Based Learning (TBL)
2.8. Personal Reflection Tools
3. Results and Discussion
3.1. Results
Curriculum Feature | Ranking allocated by each respondent | Ranking Median | Ranking order | |||||||
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Resp. 1 | Resp. 2 | Resp. 3 | Resp. 4 | Resp. 5 | Resp. 6 | Resp. 7 | Resp. 8 | |||
A negotiated curriculum | 2 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 4.5 | 3 |
Scenarios and learning exercises | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Automated search engines for hot topics | 3 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 6.5 | 7 |
A post-graduate suite | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 10 |
Animal welfare science essays | 10 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 8.5 | 9 |
Dialogue Development tool (i.e., Human Continuum) | 5 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 4.5 | 3 |
Quality of Life assessment tool | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 |
Delivering welfare advice tool | 8 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 5 |
Team based learning (TBL) | 7 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 6.5 | 7 |
Personal reflection tools | 6 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 5.5 | 6 |
3.2. Discussion
3.3. Scenarios
3.4. The QOL Tool
3.5. The Human Continuum
3.6. A Negotiated Curriculum
4. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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Johnson, J.; Collins, T.; Degeling, C.; Fawcett, A.; Fisher, A.D.; Freire, R.; Hazel, S.J.; Hood, J.; Lloyd, J.; Phillips, C.J.C.; et al. The First Shared Online Curriculum Resources for Veterinary Undergraduate Learning and Teaching in Animal Welfare and Ethics in Australia and New Zealand. Animals 2015, 5, 395-406. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani5020362
Johnson J, Collins T, Degeling C, Fawcett A, Fisher AD, Freire R, Hazel SJ, Hood J, Lloyd J, Phillips CJC, et al. The First Shared Online Curriculum Resources for Veterinary Undergraduate Learning and Teaching in Animal Welfare and Ethics in Australia and New Zealand. Animals. 2015; 5(2):395-406. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani5020362
Chicago/Turabian StyleJohnson, Jane, Teresa Collins, Christopher Degeling, Anne Fawcett, Andrew D. Fisher, Rafael Freire, Susan J. Hazel, Jennifer Hood, Janice Lloyd, Clive J. C. Phillips, and et al. 2015. "The First Shared Online Curriculum Resources for Veterinary Undergraduate Learning and Teaching in Animal Welfare and Ethics in Australia and New Zealand" Animals 5, no. 2: 395-406. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani5020362