VetMedAcademy

Veterinary class sizes are increasing, and veterinary faculty numbers are declining. However, the American Association of Veterinary Medical College’s (AAVMC) carefully constructed “Day 1” competencies, and entrustable professional activities (EPAs) highlights the need for clinical reasoning skills....

Competency-Based Veterinary Education (CBVE) Drives Increased Use of Digital Simulations and AI At the end of my formal academic career a decade ago, I chaired a “pre-clinical” department responsible for instruction in veterinary anatomy, physiology, histology, neurobiology, pharmacology and toxico...

Hi everyone, Our new Moodle theme allows for blogging at this site, and we thought we'd move the Education-Based Blog back here.  Look for new posts soon, but we wanted to get the idea so we trotted out some ancient (~10 yo) but hopefully timeless posts that were from the beginning of VetMedAcademy...

I was once told by an Associate Dean for Academic Affairs that their school had looked at the grades of single pre-vet course series correlated best with grades of a student during the first 3 years of vet school.  That course series was Physics.  The instruction of students in conceptual and practi...

In his article in the Chronicle of Higher Education entitled "Thinking for Dummies" Richard Nisbett suggests 5 strategies to encourage students to think critically. The quote from this article in the title says as strongly as one can imagine why we need to spend more time on helping future clinician...

In this month's Review of Educational Research, there is a meta-analysis study by Huber and Kuncel entitled "Does College Teach Critical Thinking? A Meta-Analysis" (see attached). This and other related studies can be found at:   http://rer.aera.net This meta-analysis of 77 educational studies conc...