Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Essential veterinary education in food safety, food hygiene and biosecurity: a global perspective.
- Journal:
- Revue scientifique et technique (International Office of Epizootics)
- Year:
- 2009
- Authors:
- Wall, P G
- Affiliation:
- School of Public Health and Population Sciences
Plain-English summary
Veterinary schools face the challenge of making public health topics interesting and relevant to students. Public health in veterinary medicine includes important areas like controlling diseases that can spread from animals to humans, ensuring food safety, and managing animal health and waste to protect the environment. It's crucial for educators to engage students so they understand the significance of these issues. If students graduate without appreciating the importance of veterinary public health, it reflects a failure on the part of the educators.
Abstract
A big challenge for veterinary educators is to stimulate interest in public health medicine and make the curriculum interesting, and relevant, to veterinary students. Veterinary public health encompasses many areas, including zoonosis control, food safety, animal health and biosecurity, animals as sentinels of environmental hazards and the contribution of animal waste to pollution of food and water, so there is no shortage of ammunition for the veterinary educator in the competition for students' attention. Veterinary educators, not the students, will have failed if graduates complete their studies without being convinced of the importance and relevance of veterinary public health.
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