Veterinary Medicine and Public Health in the PBL curriculum: interdisciplinary approach and the role of a pathologist

1. Veterinary Medicine and Public Health in the PBL curriculum: interdisciplinary approach and the role of a pathologist Suzana Tkalcic, DVM, PhD Veterinary Pathologist

2. PAST experiences • Human medicine vs. Veterinary medicine • Disconnect • PRESENT TRENDS • Collaborative efforts • Complement each other • Common goal: preserve the health

3. Veterinarian's Oath • Being admitted to the profession of veterinary medicine, I solemnly swear to use my scientific knowledge and skills for the benefit of society through the protection of animal health, the relief of animal suffering, the conservation of animal resources, the promotion of public health, and the advancement of medical knowledge. • I will practice my profession conscientiously, with dignity, and in keeping with the principles of veterinary medical ethics. • I accept as a lifelong obligation the continual improvement of my professional knowledge and competence.

4. Food safety ZOONOSES Disaster planning Foreign diseases Bio- and agroterrorism New era-new issues: = Public health

5. Too late Broad perspective/ Forensic approach Open minded Know it all

6. Globalization ONE MEDICINEONE PATHOLOGY!!!

7. VETERINARY MEDICINE Tuberculosis Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae Leptospira interrogans Trichinella spiralis • Many species • Medical thinking: understanding principles • PATHOPHYSIOLOGY • Factors: immunosupression Toxoplasmosis EHEC Bacillus anthracis Salmonellosis Echinococcus granulosus Rabies Scabies BSE Brucella abortus Ringworm

8. On the same mission, but little different: • “pure” PBL • Forefronts of vet med education • Innovative approaches • Founding principles

9. FOUNDING PRINCIPLES • Student-centered, life-long learning • Active learning • Reverence for life • Strategic partnerships and alliances

10. Preclinical: 2 years of VETERINARY BASIC SCIENCES, veterinary issues, clinical skills 64 cases/Evidence Based Medicine BRAINSTORMING, small group discussions, GR 2 threads : INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH COMPARATIVE MEDICINE Problem Based Learning

11. 3rd year Clinical Rotations (6/18): • Veterinary Public Health and Human-Animal Interactions • Food and Feed Safety • USDA accreditation, Foreign Animal Diseases and International Veterinary Medicine • Effects of the war and natural disasters on animal and public health: the role of VETERINARIANS • Foreign animal diseases-Plum Island experience • Diagnostic Laboratory and Pathology • Laboratory animal and research: zoonotic diseases of lab animals • Zoo Animal and Wildlife Clinical rotation: • Orientation, essays, PPT: Zoonotic diseases in Zoos, Public Health issues re: public, liability issues, quarantine

12. PUBLIC HEALTH: how we do it? • Incorporated in the program • Pathologists, epidemiologists, clinicians, diagnosticians, virologists, microbiologists, toxicologists… • Working together, thinking together • WUHS: CVM incorporated with the human health sciences • Plan for an integrated College of PH with case based curriculum that involves veterinary and human medicine

13. (COM)PASSION, HUMANISM, CARING, KNOWLEDGE • Core values • Emphasize: • awareness and role of veterinarians in the modern society • recognition of the diseases affecting human-animal relationships=knowledge • Expectation: • future DVM to take its role and contribute to society in Public Health domains (local and global levels)

14. ???? • Brucellosis • Camelpox • Campylo- bacteriosis • Plague (Yersinia pestis) • Q-fever • Salmonellosis