TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL SKILLS TEACHING IN VETERINARY MEDICINE - 2021/2

Module provider

Surrey Institute of Education

Module Leader

LYGO-BAKER Simon (Sy Inst Educ)

Number of Credits: 15

ECTS Credits: 7.5

Framework: FHEQ Level 7

Module cap (Maximum number of students): N/A

Module Availability

Semester 1

Module content

Assessment pattern

Alternative Assessment

N/A

Assessment Strategy

The assessment strategy ensures that students are able to meet all of the learning outcomes. All the assessment tasks are aimed at helping the participants better understand how to apply the principles learned and use of models to their own clinical teaching practice and to reduce the use of animals in teaching.

Summative Assessment

Four Writte Online Assignments – 80%

There will be four assignments. The topics of the assignments will draw on the online seminars from which the participants will have a choice for their assignment submissions. Each assignment will be expected to be about 750 words.

Students will have to choose from a group of assessments that ensures they meet LO1-3, that is, as least one to cover to each Learning Outcome (LO).

Some example of these assessments for the different Learning Outcomes are:

LO1&3:

Evaluate and reflect on the use and implementation of any of the following possible tools for technical skills training within your veterinary practice using appropriate criteria:

• Introduction to technical skills models – haptics, low fidelity, high fidelity


• Surgical training models


• Reproductive training models


• Venepuncture training models

 

LO2&3

Critically appraise any of the following  communications training methods available for veterinary training and reflect on how this may influence your teaching and learning practice

• Communications skills – verbal and nonverbal


• Calgary-Cambridge model of interview


• Team dynamics and conflict resolution in clinical practice

 

The assignments will be due in weeks 5, 7, 9 and 11 or 13 depending on the topics chosen by the participant, that is, approximately 3 weeks after covering the topic.

 

Peer Assessment

Active Participation in and contribution to discussion fora assessed by their peers via a rubric (LO2) – 20 %

 

Module aims

•    Provide a critical overview of the technical skills training models available for the veterinary student and their effectiveness
• Review the current use of haptics and simulators in veterinary training
• Provide an overview of the communications training tools and methods available for veterinary consultation training and their effectiveness

Learning outcomes

Methods of Teaching / Learning

Indicated Lecture Hours (which may also include seminars, tutorials, workshops and other contact time) are approximate and may include in-class tests where one or more of these are an assessment on the module. In-class tests are scheduled/organised separately to taught content and will be published on to student personal timetables, where they apply to taken modules, as soon as they are finalised by central administration. This will usually be after the initial publication of the teaching timetable for the relevant semester.

Reading list

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Please note that the information detailed within this record is accurate at the time of publishing and may be subject to change. This record contains information for the most up to date version of the programme / module for the 2021/2 academic year.