Identifying the Barriers to Incorporating Reflective Practice into a Veterinary Curriculum.

A portfolio with good reflective content can play a large role in learning and setting up the lifelong learning practice required by veterinary surgeons in practice or in research. The aim of this project was to investigate students' experience with their reflective diaries within an electronic portfolio (e-portfolio). Focus groups were conducted with veterinary students at the University of Liverpool in years 1-4 to explore student perceptions of the e-portfolio, with an emphasis on reflection.

Prevalence of faecal carriage of extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing in veterinary hospital staff and students.

Extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing bacteria causing clinical infections are often also multidrug-resistant (MDR; resistance to ≥3 antimicrobial drug classes), therefore treatment options may be limited. High carriage rates of these potentially zoonotic bacteria have been found in livestock and companion animals. Therefore, people working in veterinary hospitals may be a high-risk population for carriage.

Peer-assisted learning - an antidote for spoonfeeding? Reflections on peer-assisted learning activites in a veterinary curriculum.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Peer-assisted learning (PAL) is a potentially valuable teaching tool for students on veterinary and medical curricula, helping them to develop crucial learning, teaching and meta-adaptive skills ( Lizzio & Wilson, 2004) which will serve them during their undergraduate studies and throughout their future careers.

Antimicrobial Susceptibility Patterns Among Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae in a Large Pediatric Hospital in the United Kingdom.

Of the 551 extended spectrum β-lactamase-producing isolates characterized, the MIC90 for Escherichia coli, Klebsiella spp., and Enterobacter spp. were in the susceptible range when tested against meropenem, but were in the resistant range for all other antimicrobials tested excluding E coli and Klebsiella spp.