When SCoVE was born to now…
The founding chair, Fanis Liatis, created and designed the Standing Committee on Veterinary Education from a plain piece of paper. We now have the success of the EDU+ platform, a website collating and categorizing all the available online educational resources, for vet students to utilize. It includes handy comments and suggestions of the available resources. We are fortunate enough to support students further by developing close collaborations and partnerships with esteemed companies including Vetstream, Wikivet, Brief media and Vet PD to provide more resources that can benefit vet students all over the world!
Our EDU+ platform is here if you want to check it out: http://ivsascove.wix.com/eduplatform#!offers/cfy
Not only this, we have developed the SCoVE Blog site that hosts all our current and upcoming projects onto one website, so students can gain easy access to all our projects. One of our successful and current projects that we co-lead with RVC and Wikivet is ‘VET Talks’. An online platform hosting short lectures from Speakers around the world, teaching anything veterinary related. It includes talks on ‘EU legislations on animals’ to ‘Spray marking in cats’. It is a useful resource to supplement your lectures and current learning! We post weekly newsletters on VET Talks updates that you can subscribe to on our SCoVE Blog site: http://ivsascove.wix.com/ivsascove.
We have also created the Vet Education Forum group on Facebook where you can receive weekly updates on SCoVE as well as share questions and knowledge with other IVSA members all over the world!
Our recent and close partner Vetstream will be working with us to nominate and elect SCoVE Ambassadors from each vet school who will promote Vetstream in their faculty. More updates on this will be on our Facebook page soon!
We are also in the process of developing new policies on ‘incorporating Veterinary Public Health into school teaching’ to ‘Pet owner deontology’. We are closely working with the Working Group on Policy Statements within IVSA.
Following our webinar on the alternative veterinary careers, one of our upcoming projects is the ‘Vet Career Map’- an online presentation and factsheet on all the available careers for qualified veterinarians. It will detail the specific careers available, blogs on current employees and the experience and qualification required to get into those careers. It is one not to miss and can help you determine your career path and gain the right contacts!
We have many more projects to develop. For example, we will create IVSA articles on education and we will develop a database of the curriculum structure and methods of teachings in vet schools around the world.
Our new committee has just been selected and we look forward to working as a team together and developing new projects! You can meet the new team on our Facebook page!
Bhavisha Patel
SCoVE Chair 2015/2016
Standing Committee on veterinary education (SCOVE)
Official partners:
• Wikivet - the handy encyclopedia of all the veterinary information for pre-clinical students. We have closely worked with Wikivet on developing the VET Talks project and we shall continue our close collaboration and further our project ideas together!
• Vetstream - the online resource of all the clinical information on equis, canis, felis and Lapis. We are sure that students will benefit from this handy resource, especially in your clinical years and in the future! More on Vetstream will be announced soon so don’t miss out!
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IVSA Journal/Fall, 2015