Abstract
Objective
To design a holistic audit tool to assess the effectiveness of anaesthesia teaching
strategies, and thereby to study veterinary undergraduate teaching methods in different
geographical areas.
Study design
Qualitative study using interviews of university staff and students to identify common
themes and differences in teaching veterinary anaesthesia.
Methods
An audit was performed using an audit tool in four veterinary universities (École
Nationale Vétérinaire d'Alfort, France; Royal Veterinary College, UK; University of
Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Alma mater studiorum - Università di Bologna, Italy).
First, an open-question interview of anaesthesia head of service (60–90 minutes) identified
the pedagogical strategies in order to conceive a subsequent semi-directive interview
formulated as a SWOT analysis (Strength/Weaknesses/Opportunity/Threats). Second, the
SWOT reflection was conducted by a second staff member and focussed on: 1) general
organization; 2) topics for pre-rotation teaching; 3) teaching methods for clinical
rotation; and 4) assessment methods. Qualitative analysis of the interview responses
was performed with semi-structured interviews. Finally, the students evaluated their
teaching through a students’ questionnaire generated from the output of both interviews.
Results
A group of nine lecturers and 106 students participated in the study at four different
sites. Preclinical teaching ranged from 13 to 24 hours (median 15 hours). Clinical
teaching ranged from 4 to 80 hours (median 60 hours). Overall, all faculties perceived
time as a limitation and attempted to design strategies to achieve the curriculum
expectations and optimize teaching using more time-efficient exercises. Large animal
anaesthesia teaching was found to be a common area of weakness. Internal feedback
was delivered to each university, whereas generalized results were shared globally.
Conclusions
This preliminary study proved the generalizability of the protocol used. Recruiting
a larger pool of universities would help to identify and promote efficient teaching
strategies and innovations for training competent new graduates in an ever-expanding
curriculum.
Keywords
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Article Info
Publication History
Published online: June 14, 2020
Accepted:
February 15,
2020
Received:
July 8,
2019
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