Tell a Friend

Your Name :
Your Email :
Email To :
Comments :

This 2 credit course was developed using the current USDA National Veterinary Accreditation Program (NAVP), recommendations from the AVMA-USDA Relations Committee for new directions for the NAVP (JAVMA, May 15, 2002), and the Model Curriculum developed by the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine as recommended by the AVMA, December 2003. Additional resources utilized for development include position statements from the American Association of Food Hygiene Veterinarians, American Association of Public Health Veterinarians, and the Association for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, as well as the AVMA New COE Draft Outcomes Statement Population Medicine Domain recommended, July 2004. Students will meet with representatives from both the area office of USDA-APHIS and the California Department of Food and Agriculture Animal Health and Food Safety Service to review their professional, legal and ethical responsibilities after becoming an accredited veterinarian. This course will include the core orientation requirements to apply for federal accreditation status.

• Federal animal health laws, regulations, and rules as they apply to accreditation
• Interstate and international movement of animals
• Import and export requirements for animals
• USDA animal disease eradication and control programs
• Laboratory support in confirming disease diagnoses
• Ethical/professional standards for an accredited veterinarian
• State initiatives, regulations, and programs

Practical demonstrations of tuberculin and other testing procedures will be carried out. Clinical and laboratory diagnosis of foreign animal diseases (FAD) of economic importance in the United States will be delivered to students in a student-centered format. This format involves an on-line course, Exotic and Emerging Diseases of Animals (EEDA), available from Iowa State University and the Veterinary Information Network (VIN). Through this course, students will participate in various outbreak investigations involving FADs, identify domestic diseases which present similarly to FADs, and become familiar with protocols for reporting potential FADs. Students will become familiar with foreign animal diseases that are reportable in the US, including Office International des Epizooties (OIE) reportable diseases as well as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Category A, B, C Bioterrorism Agents/Diseases and other important high consequence livestock pathogens and toxins. The role of USDA in international activities including United Nations (UN) organizations such as Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO), as well as the OIE will be discussed.

Course Location - On Campus
Western Universty - College of Veterinary Medicine
Dr. Peggy Schmidt
Dr. Malika Kachani