MULT208-0217: Principles of Medicine
The lectures for this course will be presented as a combination of text and audio.
Enrollment is closed.
Presenters:
Katherine James, DVM, PhD, DACVIM
Linda Kidd, DVM, PhD, DACVIM
Kathy Freeman, DVM, BS, MS, PhD, DipECVCP, FRCPath, MRCVS
Stefanie Klenner, Dr.med.vet., Dipl. ECVCP, scil animal care company, Germany
Peggy L. Schmidt, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACVPM
Course Open: February 2-March 19, 2017
Real Time Sessions (RTS): Thursdays, February 9, 16, 23, March 2 and 9, 2017; 9:30-11:30 pm ET (USA)
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Practice Sessions: In order to prepare you for a successful experience
in your CE course, we request you attend a Practice Session prior to the first
Real Time Session. Please arrive promptly at the start time; each Practice Session
is up to 1 hour in length.
For more information, please visit the
CE Practice Area.
*Some of the presenters for this course will be using audio which will require you to have
a headset or speakers to listen. If you have any concerns regarding your computer's audio
capabilities, please be sure to attend one of the Practice Sessions.
Level and Prerequisites:
This
intermediate course will be open to veterinarians. It provides an introduction
to the principles of diagnostic medicine, problem-based medical records, evidenced-based
medicine and proper use of laboratory diagnostic testing information. This course
is the second of six modules in the Organ System Pathophysiology and ABVP Core
Examination review series. It will serve as the foundation for more comprehensive
courses on these topics and will also prepare the participant to apply these principles
in the organ-system-based modules that follow.
VIN CE Course: Open to veterinarians.
This course has been submitted for RACE approval for veterinarians.
Course Information:
The second of six modules in the Organ System Pathophysiology and
ABVP Core Examination review series, this course is designed to cover
the pathophysiological basis of disease in small animals based on
pathophysiological and discipline-specific concepts. Clinical examples
will be used to illustrate these concepts. Focus will be on clinical
decision making and the diagnostic process including problem-oriented
clinical reasoning, the assessment of laboratory data, and an introduction
to evidenced-based medicine. This module together with the first module
Pathological Basis of Disease are designed to prepare the participant
for the organ system-based modules.
The course can be used as a portion of the preparation for the ABVP
Core examination, but it is not designed as a test-preparation course.
The instructors do not have access to the questions. Also, material
in this course may be more current than that examination. However it
will allow those preparing for the examination to work systematically
through different topics over the course of a year, accomplishing
a broad review. The emphasis will be on pathophysiology, serving as
a foundation for good case management.
It should be noted that these courses are not designed specifically
as a preparation for test taking. The instructors do not have access
to information on the question types. Furthermore the questions used
on the examination may be a few years behind the current knowledge and
practice, whereas the course will strive to be more current.
We recommend using the course to
- keep progressing through the topics so all topics will have been
studied prior to the exam and
- provide participants with feedback on their strongest and weakest
topics to guide their individual exam specific preparations.
Week 1 (Real Time Session February 9, 2017):
Principles of Diagnosis
Presenters: Katherine James, DVM, PhD, DACVIM;
Linda Kidd, DVM, PhD, DACVIM
Format: TBA
Objectives: Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to
- better understand clinical reasoning and the diagnostic process.
- better understand the types of clinical reasoning used by clinicians.
- master the process of making an appropriate problem list and
using "localization" to systematically diagnose complicated cases.
Week 2 (Real Time Session February 16, 2017):
Principles of Diagnosis (continued)
Presenters: Katherine James, DVM, PhD, DACVIM;
Linda Kidd, DVM, PhD, DACVIM
Format: TBA
Objectives: Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to
- understand the role of bias in clinical reasoning
and how it affects patient care.
- recognize sources of your own bias in clinical reasoning.
- understand how metacognition can shape clinical reasoning.
Week 3 (Real Time Session February 23, 2017):
Interpretation of Tests
Presenters: Kathy Freeman, DVM, BS, MS, PhD, DipECVCP, FRCPath, MRCVS;
Stefanie Klenner, DVM, Dr.med.vet. Cand.Dip.ECVCP
Format: TBA
Objectives: Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to
- understand the sources which may influence the results
of your laboratory analysis.
- understand the conditions, situations and other inputs,
which lead to variation in laboratory tests.
Week 4 (Real Time Session March 2, 2017):
Interpretation of Tests (continued)
Presenters: Kathy Freeman, DVM, BS, MS, PhD, DipECVCP, FRCPath, MRCVS;
Stefanie Klenner, DVM, Dr.med.vet. Cand.Dip.ECVCP
Format: TBA
Objectives: Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to
- understand the sources which may influence the results
of your laboratory analysis.
- understand the conditions, situations and other inputs,
which lead to variation in laboratory tests.
Week 5 (Real Time Session March 9, 2017):
Evidence-Based Medicine
Presenter: Peggy L. Schmidt, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACVPM
Format: TBA
Objectives: Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to
- understand the basis of evidence-based medicine.
Successful completion (scoring 80% or better) on the end-of-course test is required
to earn a certificate of completion for the course.
To learn more about the requirements for earning a CE certificate, please refer to
Receiving Your CE Credit and Course Completion Certificate.
Course Materials: Course materials will be available
in the course library prior to each Real Time Session.
Required Textbook(s): There is no required textbook for this course.
About the Presenters:
Katherine James is a VIN consultant (Urology and Nephrology) and
has a PhD in veterinary medicine with a focus on nutrition in chronic kidney disease
from the University of Minnesota. She is a self-proclaimed sleep and nutrition geek.
Her special interests are in the application of functional medicine principles to
veterinary medicine and the study of clinical reasoning/cognitive errors in medical
practice. She has personal experience with polysomnographic sleep studies, cognitive
behavioral therapy for insomnia, and oral appliance and CPAP therapies for obstructive
sleep apnea. Her ongoing interests in nutrition include nutrigenomics, the examination
of nutritional wisdom and myths with science, and the development of personalized
nutrition to let "food be thy medicine."
Linda Kidd received a Bachelor of Science in Bacteriology
from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her DVM from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison's School of Veterinary Medicine (UW-SVM). After several
years in private small animal practice, she returned to the UW-SVM to obtain
specialty training in Small Animal Internal Medicine. She completed the program
in July of 2000, and achieved board certification by the American College of
Veterinary Internal Medicine at that time. She stayed on as a Clinical Instructor
of Small Animal Internal Medicine until December of 2002. Dr Kidd then left
Madison to pursue research training at the Intracellular Pathogens Research
Laboratory at North Carolina State University's College of Veterinary Medicine,
under the mentorship of Dr Ed Breitschwerdt. There she obtained a PhD in Immunology
with a minor in Molecular Biology. Her PhD research centered on the molecular
characterization of Spotted Fever Rickettsiosis in dogs. She then completed a
postdoctoral fellowship at The Scripps Research Institute in a thrombosis and hemostasis
laboratory under the direction of Dr Nigel Mackman.Currently, Dr Kidd is an Associate
Professor of Small Animal Internal Medicine at Western University of Health Sciences,
College of Veterinary Medicine. Dr Kidd's clinical and research interests include
vector borne disease, the role of undetected infection in immune-mediated diseases,
the link between inflammation and coagulation, mechanisms of thrombosis in dogs with
immune mediated hemolytic anemia, and diagnostic reasoning. She has several ongoing
collaborative clinical research projects investigating the pathophysiology of immune
mediated hemolytic anemia and vector borne disease with internal medicine specialty
practices in Southern California, North Carolina State University and The University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the recipient of the Pfizer Award for Teaching
Excellence and the Monica Menard award for Pathobiological Research.
Kathleen Freeman is a 1981 graduate of Oklahoma State University,
College of Veterinary Medicine and received her MS and PhDs from OSU in 1984 and 1987,
respectively. She was on faculty at OSU and then at Cornell University before taking
a detour and teaching all sorts of Science courses and in the Educational Opportunity
Program at Ithaca College for several years.
During these years she was also doing cytology and laboratory consultations for
commercial laboratories.
She then moved into commercial laboratory medicine and worked as Director or
Senior Clinical Pathologist at several laboratories. She moved to the UK in 1997
to develop a diagnostic laboratory service for the Animal Health Trust and was
Head of Anatomic and Clinical Pathology there. She subsequently moved to Scotland
and works from home for IDEXX Laboratories, Ltd, based in Wetherby, West Yorkshire.
She is past founding Chair of the ASVCP Quality Assurance and Laboratory Standards
Committee and the founding Chair of the ECVCP Laboratory Standards Committee.
She is currently a member of both committees. She has special interests in QA, QC,
customer service, cytology and general clinical pathology.
She obtained a Certificate in Laboratory Quality Management via e-learning from
the University of Wisconsin and had the opportunity to work with James Westgard
which she says was a great experience!
Stefanie Klenner graduated in 2004 from the University of Veterinary
Medicine, Hannover, Germany. Between 2004 and 2006 she wrote her thesis about canine
intestinal permeability tests at the same University, successfully receiving her
Dr. med. vet. After a rotational internship at the Small Animal Clinic at the
Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen, Germany, Dr. Klenner started a residency in
veterinary clinical pathology at the Central Laboratory of Justus-Liebig University.
Currently, she is working as scientific product manager laboratory diagnostic for
scil animal care company.
She is an experienced speaker in various themes of veterinary clinical pathology
and lectures often at national as well as international conferences. She is the current
Chair of the Lab Standards Committee of the ECVCP.
Since 2009 Dr. Klenner is one of the instructors of the VIN Quality Management
Course and provides her skills and knowledge also to other courses of VIN. She is
especially interested in general clinical pathology, quality control
as well as learning strategies.
Peggy L. Schmidt received a Bachelor of Science in Animal Science
from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and her DVM from the University of Minnesota.�
After receiving her DVM, she joined a 3-doctor, 2-clinic rural practice in Western Minnesota
where she enjoyed practicing food animal medicine and herd health.� After 5 years in practice,
Dr. Schmidt returned to school and received a master�s degree in veterinary preventive medicine
from Iowa State University.� In May 2004, she joined the faculty of the new College of
Veterinary Medicine at Western University of Health Sciences as an Assistant Professor
of Production Medicine and Epidemiology.� During her time at WesternU, Dr. Schmidt taught
the 3rd year Population Health & Production course and facilitated 1st and 2nd year students
in the problem-based learning pedagogy.� She coordinated the WesternU DVM/MPH program in
conjunction with University of Minnesota and continues to hold an adjunct position at UMN
School of Public Health.� Dr. Schmidt served in the role of Director of Year 4 Curriculum
and Director of College Outcomes Assessment.� She gained diplomate status in the American
College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine and received the Norden-Pfizer Award for Teaching
Excellence during her tenure at WesternU.� Dr. Schmidt has recently moved to Kansas and
is currently the Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Student Affairs at Kansas State
University College of Veterinary Medicine.�
Total CE Credit: 10
Tuition: Member $230 ($207 early bird special if enrolled by January 19, 2017)
Non-Member $350 ($315 early bird special if enrolled by January 19, 2017)
Prices are listed in US dollars.
*To ensure participants are ready and prepared for classes,
enrollment will close on February 9, 2017 at 5 pm ET (USA)
or when the maximum number of participants is reached.
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"This program (RACE program number to be determined) has been submitted
for approval by AAVSB RACE to offer a total of 10 CE Credits, with a maximum
of 10 CE Credits being available to any individual veterinarian.
This RACE approval is for the subject matter categories of:
Scientific,
using the delivery method of Interactive-Distance: (Web-based, Teleconference or Audio-Conference).
This approval is valid in jurisdictions which recognize AAVSB RACE; however, participants are
responsible for ascertaining each board's CE requirements."
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to discuss eligibility for a pro-rated refund.
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Katherine James, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (SAIM)
VIN Education Coordinator
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