Animal Research in a Global Environment Meeting the Challenges: Proceedings of the November 2008 International Workshop (2011) / Chapter Skim
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A PATH FORWARD
A PATH FORWARD
Pages 113-127
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Therefore, by any standards, an intergovernmental organization representing 172 countries has a significant role to play in influencing public policy in governments around the world, and also plays a key role in implementing agreed policy. The raison d'être of the OIE relates to ensuring transparency related to global animal disease and zoonoses, and also to coordinating the collection, analysis, and dissemination of scientific animal health information.
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OIE supports appropriate animal use in the fields that are relevant to animal health and welfare and animal production food safety, including research and development of veterinary medicines, diagnostic tests and vaccines, and education of veterinarians and other professionals. Another program established under OIE auspices is the International Cooperation on Harmonization of Technical Requirements for Registration of Veterinary Medicinal Products (VICH)
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They will address these topics: animal care and use program and committee; assurance of training and competent provision of veterinary care; physical facility and environmental conditions; husbandry; source of animals; occupational health and safety; and importance of postapproval monitoring and validation. The group also identified veterinary training in laboratory animal medicine, transportation of animals, and regulatory testing as topics to be examined in the future.
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116 Animal Research in a Global Environment: Meeting the Challenges next one to two years there will be a major conference sponsored by the OIE and attended by veterinary deans from around the world to ensure that veterinary education meets the needs of society. There will also be a major review of future needs in veterinary education published in the OIE scientific and technical review series in 2009.
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If the number of veterinarians going into laboratory animal medicine tripled, there would be shortages in food animal medicine, public health, or companion animal medicine. We need to recruit more veterinarians into all of these critical areas.
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To address these issues, our board of directors has partnered with the American Veterinary Medical Association, the US Department of Agriculture, and the National Institutes of Health NCRR to hold a scientific meeting on animal care and welfare ethics in November 2009 (the agenda and papers are available at www.avma.org/awsymposium)
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The program is being designed with requested input from all of our member institutions. It is important to emphasize that our intended audience will include scholars involved in animal welfare, the laboratory animal community, and veterinary medical students in the international realm.
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In addition, we will look at preveterinary education and students' background before attending veterinary school. We need to examine the selection criteria for veterinary students in animal care and welfare from [the point of view of]
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AAVMC Strategic Plan 121 contact? Veterinarians need to step up to the plate rather than letting somebody else do it.
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Current challenges in laboratory animal medicine (LAM) occur because there is now an increasingly complex globalized research environment, with companies and institutions having multiple sites around the world, and there is difficulty ensuring adequate veterinary care and harmonization of training across all these sites.
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The immediate problem is that there is an urgent need for entry-level training for licensed veterinarians in laboratory animal medicine to fill some of these roles. This population includes licensed clinical veterinarians who may be looking for a career change, some who own clinics, who are working or consulting at a biotechnology company or community college, or who are working full-time in a field but are unable to return for graduate studies or a residency because of location, financial constraints, or because they have no desire to go back to school for another three to five years.
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I would now like to provide an example of how we have tried to deal with the challenge of providing adequate veterinary care for animals used in research, particularly veterinarians working in laboratory animal medicine. Canada is a large country with a relatively small population.
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An advisory committee comprising laboratory animal veterinarians from across Canada edited and produced the course content and assisted with question bank development; other veterinarians were conscripted as needed in the program to develop skills lists or to review materials. A skills list has been developed for the applied courses.
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Most importantly, the website contains contact information for the course instructor and there is 24/7 online support for participants provided by the Office of Open Learning. Ongoing related projects include working together with a number of ACLAM diplomates in the US to develop a similar entry-level US certificate program, which will become available soon.
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So in summary, we are at a very early stage in the veterinary medical field and in particular in laboratory animal medicine and science for implementing some of this technology. However, there are a lot of exciting opportunities in the future to use online training as one potential tool to provide for harmonization of veterinary training and ensure at least a minimum level of training of veterinarians for the provision of adequate care of laboratory animals.
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