Mission of the CVM:
We, the faculty and staff of the College of Veterinary Medicine, are a community of scholars committed to:
Caring about animals and people; curing and preventing animal disease; creating new knowledge, new therapies, and new learning opportunities; and communicating with students, veterinarians, scientists, and the public.
College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Goals
- To educate students to solve complex problems through critical thinking and to use these skills to engage in veterinary practice in a clinically competent and ethically and legally defensible manner.
- To develop student appreciation for the role of research in veterinary medicine and biomedical sciences and to foster understanding of the breadth of opportunity in professional and post-graduate programs.
- To enhance faculty efforts in the areas of student and continuing education, research, patient care and preservation of public health.
- To create and enhance a learning environment where students are physically, racially, ethnically and culturally safe; an environment where students come to understand the impact of their role on the global and societal aspects of their fields of study.
Goal One: To educate students to solve complex problems through critical thinking and to use these skills to engage in veterinary practice in a clinically competent and ethically and legally defensible manner.
Learning Outcomes for Goal One
1. Veterinary students will be able to solve complex problems through critical thinking.
Assessment methods for learning outcome #1:
Clinical problem-solving will be demonstrated by a significant increase in diagnostic efficiency as students engage in a series of clinically relevant case simulations over the course of the four years of the professional curriculum.
Student problem-solving will be assessed through a study of clinical reasoning of professional students at the beginning and end of their fourth year of study.
Student knowledge of basic science information to be used in clinical problem-solving will be assessed through a pre-clinical examination.
Criteria for success for learning outcome #1:
90% of all students graduating from the program in veterinary medicine will achieve a 50% increase in diagnostic efficiency while engaged in clinical or simulated clinical problem-solving activities.
90% of employers of veterinary program graduates will rate their employee’s overall performance as “Good” or better.
Plan for implementing learning outcome #1:
Dr. Jim Herman will be responsible for working with instructors to identify courses within the first semester of the first year of the professional curriculum where students are expected to engage in clinical problem solving.
Dr. Charles Farnsworth will be responsible for developing assessment tools for instructors to use to collect diagnostic efficiency scores for first-year veterinary students.
Dr. Dan Posey and Dr. Charles Farnsworth and will be responsible for working with 4 th year instructors to develop assessment tools and gathering data concerning students’ diagnostic efficiency.
Timeline for data collection; two years.
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2. Veterinary students will utilize critical thinking skills to engage in veterinary practice in a clinically competent and ethically and legally defensible manner.
Assessment methods for learning outcome #2:
Student clinical competence will be assessed through an on-line survey of veterinarians who have employed students within their first year of graduation.
Student clinical competence will be assessed through an on-line survey of professional students a year after graduation.
Student clinical competence will be assessed through a review of NAVLE pass rates for senior veterinary students.
Student clinical competence will be assessed through a survey conducted by the VMTH of client satisfaction.
Student clinical competence will be indirectly assessed through compilation of data concerning the number of job offers per professional student who graduates.
Criteria for success for learning outcome #2:
Plan for implementing learning outcome #2:
The CVM QEP Council will critically evaluate the Employers’ Survey as a means to determine post-DVM competencies.
The CVM QEP Council will critically evaluate the Former Students’ Survey as a means to determine post-DVM competencies.
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Goal #2: To develop student appreciation for the role of research in veterinary medicine and biomedical sciences and to foster understanding of the breadth of opportunity in professional and post-graduate programs.
Learning outcomes for Goal 2
1. To develop student appreciation for the role of research in veterinary medicine and biomedical sciences and to foster understanding of the breadth of opportunity in professional and post-graduate programs.
Assessment methods for learning outcome #1:
Gather data concerning post-DVM training, BIMS student data and graduate student data.
Criteria for success for learning outcome #1:
15% of all students graduating from the program of veterinary medicine will choose to matriculate, or simultaneously participate in, a program of graduate studies or an internship or residency.
10% of all students graduating from the program of veterinary medicine will choose careers in non-clinical, non-traditional aspects of the medical profession.
75% of all students graduating from the Biomedical Science program will matriculate into a professional health science program.
Plan for implementing learning outcome #1:
Dr. V. S. Venkatraj will be responsible for contacting the Office of Research and Graduate Studies in regards to gathering data regarding graduate studies.
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Goal #3: To enhance and improve faculty efforts in the areas of student and continuing education, research, patient care and public health preservation.
Outcomes for Goal Three
1. Enhance and improve faculty efforts in teaching students.
Assessment methods for outcome #1:
Enhanced faculty efforts in teaching will be evidenced by course evaluations, exit interviews of senior veterinary students by the curriculum committee, end-of-semester interviews of veterinary students by the curriculum committee, online faculty surveys, faculty retreats, number of courses taught by tenure-track faculty and student faculty ratios.
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2. Enhance and improve faculty efforts in continuing education.
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Enhanced faculty efforts in continuing education will be evidenced by Continuing Education outcomes data.
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3. Enhance and improve faculty efforts in research.
Assessment methods for outcome #3:
Enhanced faculty efforts in research will be evidenced by Office of Research & Graduate Studies outcomes data (i.e., faculty productivity data concerning the number of peer-reviewed publications and extramural grant dollars.)
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4. Enhance and improve faculty efforts in patient care.
Assessment methods for outcome #4:
Enhanced faculty efforts in patient care will be evidenced by VMTH survey of client satisfaction.
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5. Enhance and improve faculty efforts in public health preservation.
Assessment methods for outcome #5:
Enhanced faculty efforts in public health preservation will be evidenced by the number of faculty trained to deal with foreign animal diseases by the USDA.
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Goal #4: To create and enhance a learning environment where students are physically, racially, ethnically and culturally safe; an environment where students come to understand the impact of their role on the global and societal aspects of their fields of study.
Outcomes for Goal Four
1. Students will feel physically safe in our learning environment .
Assessment methods for outcome #1:
Creation and administration of an online “environmental survey” of students.
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2. Students will feel racially, ethnically and culturally safe in our learning environment.
Assessment methods for outcome #2:
Administration of a cross cultural assessment tool.
Creation and administration of an online “environmental survey” of students.
Gather data concerning the number of students from culturally, etc. diverse backgrounds who enroll in the CVM.
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3. Students understand the impact of their role on the global and societal aspects of their fields of study .
Assessment methods for outcome #3:
Creation and administration of an online “environmental survey” of students.
Compilation of data concerning the number of former students in “leadership” roles (national offices & honors).
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Dr. Jeffrey Musser will assist with devising a plan for measuring this outcome.
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