Self-care practices and depression, anxiety, and stress scores in veterinary students during a semester.

Objective: To measure associations between self-care activities and depression, anxiety, and stress of preclinical veterinary students during a semester.

Procedure: Preclinical veterinary students at the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine were recruited voluntarily. Depression, anxiety, and stress scores (DASS-21) were measured, and a self-care questionnaire was administered at the beginning and end of the semester.

Phronesis in Veterinary Medicine: Navigating the Complexity of Practice with Wisdom.

With the knowledge explosion currently occurring in veterinary medicine, it is difficult to impart to our learners all the actions that be done, let alone teach them how to determine what be done. Ethics curricula can provide an essential part of this answer but leave it incomplete. This can result in the disengagement of veterinary learners from the situational understanding that leads to the most appropriate actions.

Expert Veterinarians Should Be Trained Expertly: Fostering the Development of Adaptive Expertise in Veterinary Students through Faculty Development for Veterinary Educators.

The field of health professions education is rapidly evolving, and with it the field of veterinary education. This discussion piece amalgamates literature across health professions education to provide a picture of what a veterinary clinician-educator is, why there is a need for veterinary clinician-educators when developing learners with adaptive expertise, and how faculty development can support the growth of clinicians into clinician-educators. It is intended to outline the best practices for fostering the development of adaptive expertise in veterinary students through faculty development for veterinary educators.

How medical school alters empathy: Student love and break up letters to empathy for patients.

Introduction: Medical education is committed to promoting empathic communication. Despite this, much research indicates that empathy actually decreases as students progress through medical school. In qualitative terms, relatively little is known about this changing student relationship with the concept of empathy for patients and how teaching affects it.

Optimal Suture Bite Size for Closure of Feline Linea Alba-A Cadaveric Study.

This study aimed to determine the most appropriate suture bite and stitch interval (SBSI) size for closing feline linea alba. Randomized mechanical testing. Ventral abdominal walls from 35 male feline cadavers were harvested and separated into 125 segments.

Asymmetric lumbosacral transitional vertebra and subsequent disc protrusion in a cocker spaniel.

A 10-year-old cocker spaniel bitch presented with severe lumbosacral pain and acute onset left pelvic limb lameness. A diagnosis of asymmetric lumbosacral transitional vertebra with disc protrusion at L6-L7 was made by computed tomography. The cauda equina and left L6 nerve root were surgically decompressed with a dorsal laminectomy and lateral foraminotomy, which led to rapid resolution of the clinical signs.

Age-related decline in the microstructural integrity of white matter in children with early- and continuously-treated PKU: a DTI study of the corpus callosum.

Structural, volumetric, and microstructural abnormalities have been reported in the white matter of the brain in individuals with phenylketonuria (PKU). Very little research, however, has been conducted to investigate the development of white matter in children with PKU, and the developmental trajectory of their white matter microstructure is unknown. In the current study, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) was used to examine the development of the microstructural integrity of white matter across six regions of the corpus callosum in 34 children (7-18 years of age) with early- and continuously-treated PKU.