MULT208-0219: Principles of Medicine
Module 2 of the Organ Systems Pathophysiology and ABVP Core Examination Review Series
The lectures for this course will be presented in an audio format using a webinar platform.
Enrollment is closed.
Presenters:
Katherine James, DVM, PhD, DACVIM
Linda Kidd, DVM, PhD, DACVIM
Kathy Freeman, DVM, BS, MS, PhD, DipECVCP, FRCPath, MRCVS
Stefanie Klenner-Gastreich, Dr.med.vet., Dipl. ECVCP
Peggy L. Schmidt, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACVPM
Course Open: February 14-March 31, 2019
Real Time Sessions (RTS): Thursdays, February 21, 28, March 7, 14 and 21, 2019; 9:30-11:30 pm ET (USA)
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Level and Prerequisites:
This
intermediate course will be open to veterinarians
and introduces the principles of diagnostic medicine,
problem-based medical records, evidenced-based medicine and proper use
of laboratory diagnostic testing information. This course is the second
of six modules in the Organ System Pathophysiology and ABVP Core Examination
review series. It will serve as the foundation for more comprehensive courses
on these topics and will also prepare the participant to apply these principles
in the organ-system-based modules that follow.
VIN CE Course: Open to veterinarians.
This course is approved by RACE for veterinarians. (RACE 22-35512)
Course Information:
The second of six modules in the Organ System Pathophysiology and ABVP Core
Examination review series, this course is designed to cover the pathophysiological
basis of disease in small animals based on pathophysiological and discipline-specific
concepts. Clinical examples will be used to illustrate these concepts. Focus will be
on clinical decision making and the diagnostic process including problem-oriented
clinical reasoning, the assessment of laboratory data, and an introduction to
evidenced-based medicine. This module together with the first module MULT207-1018:
Pathological Basis of Disease are designed to prepare the participant for the
organ system-based modules.
The course can be used as a portion of the preparation for the ABVP Core examination,
but it is not designed as a test-preparation course. The instructors do not have
access to the questions. Also, material in this course may be more current than
that examination. However it will allow those preparing for the examination to work
systematically through different topics over the course of a year, accomplishing a
broad review. The emphasis will be on pathophysiology, serving as a foundation for
good case management.
It should be noted that these courses are not designed specifically as a preparation
for test taking. The instructors do not have access to information on the question types.
Furthermore, the questions used on the examination may be a few years behind the
current knowledge and practice, whereas the course will strive to be more current.
We recommend using the course to:
- keep progressing through the topics so all topics will have been studied prior to the exam and
- provide participants with feedback on their strongest and weakest topics to guide
their individual exam specific preparations.
Week 1 (Real Time Session February 21, 2019):
Principles of Diagnosis
Presenters: Katherine James, DVM, PhD, DACVIM;
Linda Kidd, DVM, PhD, DACVIM
Format: Audio
Objectives: Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to
- better understand clinical reasoning and the diagnostic process.
- better understand the types of clinical reasoning used by clinicians.
- master the process of making an appropriate problem list and
using "localization" to systematically diagnose complicated cases.
Week 2 (Real Time Session February 28, 2019):
Principles of Diagnosis (continued)
Presenters: Katherine James, DVM, PhD, DACVIM;
Linda Kidd, DVM, PhD, DACVIM
Format: Audio
Objectives: Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to
- understand the role of bias in clinical reasoning and how it affects patient care.
- recognize sources of your own bias in clinical reasoning.
- understand how metacognition can shape clinical reasoning.
Week 3 (Real Time Session March 7, 2019):
Interpretation of Tests
Presenters: Kathy Freeman, DVM, BS, MS, PhD, DipECVCP, FRCPath, MRCVS;
Stefanie Klenner, DVM, Dr.med.vet. Cand.Dip.ECVCP
Format: Audio
Objectives: Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to
- understand the sources which may influence the results of your laboratory analysis.
- understand the conditions, situations and other inputs,
which lead to variation in laboratory tests.
Week 4 (Real Time Session March 14, 2019):
Interpretation of Tests (continued)
Presenters: Kathy Freeman, DVM, BS, MS, PhD, DipECVCP, FRCPath, MRCVS;
Stefanie Klenner, DVM, Dr.med.vet. Cand.Dip.ECVCP
Format: Audio
Objectives: Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to
- understand the sources which may influence the results of your laboratory analysis.
- understand the conditions, situations and other inputs,
which lead to variation in laboratory tests.
Week 5 (Real Time Session March 21, 2019):
Evidence-Based Medicine
Presenter: Peggy L. Schmidt, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACVPM
Format: Audio
Objectives: Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to
- understand the basis of evidence-based medicine.
Successful completion (scoring 80% or better) on the end-of-course test is required
to earn a certificate of completion for the course.
To learn more about the requirements for earning a CE certificate, please refer to
Receiving Your CE Credit and Course Completion Certificate.
Course Materials: Course materials will be available
in the course library prior to each Real Time Session.
Required Textbook(s): There is no required textbook for this course.
About the Presenters:
Katherine James is a VIN consultant (Urology and Nephrology) and has a PhD in
veterinary medicine with a focus on nutrition in chronic kidney disease from the
University of Minnesota. She is a self-proclaimed sleep and nutrition geek. Her special
interests are in the application of functional medicine principles to veterinary medicine
and the study of clinical reasoning/cognitive errors in medical practice. She has personal
experience with polysomnographic sleep studies, cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia,
and oral appliance and CPAP therapies for obstructive sleep apnea. Her ongoing interests
in nutrition include nutrigenomics, the examination of nutritional wisdom and myths with
science, and the development of personalized nutrition to let "food be thy medicine."
Linda Kidd received a Bachelor of Science in Bacteriology from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison and her DVM from the University of Wisconsin-Madison's
School of Veterinary Medicine (UW-SVM). After several years in private small animal
practice, she returned to the UW-SVM to obtain specialty training in Small Animal
Internal Medicine. She completed the program in July of 2000, and achieved board certification
by the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine at that time. She stayed on as
a Clinical Instructor of Small Animal Internal Medicine until December of 2002.
Dr Kidd then left Madison to pursue research training at the Intracellular Pathogens Research
Laboratory at North Carolina State University's College of Veterinary Medicine, under
the mentorship of Dr Ed Breitschwerdt. There she obtained a PhD in Immunology with a minor
in Molecular Biology. Her PhD research centered on the molecular characterization of
Spotted Fever Rickettsiosis in dogs. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at
The Scripps Research Institute in a thrombosis and hemostasis laboratory under the
direction of Dr Nigel Mackman.Currently, Dr Kidd is an Associate Professor of Small
Animal Internal Medicine at Western University of Health Sciences, College of Veterinary
Medicine. Dr Kidd's clinical and research interests include vector borne disease,
the role of undetected infection in immune-mediated diseases, the link between
inflammation and coagulation, mechanisms of thrombosis in dogs with immune mediated
hemolytic anemia, and diagnostic reasoning. She has several ongoing collaborative
clinical research projects investigating the pathophysiology of immune mediated
hemolytic anemia and vector borne disease with internal medicine specialty practices
in Southern California, North Carolina State University and The University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the recipient of the Pfizer Award for Teaching Excellence
and the Monica Menard award for Pathobiological Research.
Kathy Freeman is a 1981 graduate of Oklahoma State University, College
of Veterinary Medicine and received her MS and PhDs from OSU in 1984 and 1987, respectively.
She was on faculty at OSU and then at Cornell University before taking a detour and
teaching all sorts of Science courses and in the Educational Opportunity Program at
Ithaca College for several years. During these years she was also doing cytology and
laboratory consultations for commercial laboratories. She then moved into commercial
laboratory medicine and worked as Director or Senior Clinical Pathologist at several
laboratories. She moved to the UK in 1997 to develop a diagnostic laboratory service
for the Animal Health Trust and was Head of Anatomic and Clinical Pathology there.
She subsequently moved to Scotland and works from home for IDEXX Laboratories, Ltd,
based in Wetherby, West Yorkshire. She is past founding Chair of the ASVCP Quality
Assurance and Laboratory Standards Committee and the founding Chair of the ECVCP
Laboratory Standards Committee. She is currently a member of both committees.
She has special interests in QA, QC, customer service, cytology and general clinical
pathology. She obtained a Certificate in Laboratory Quality Management via e-learning
from the University of Wisconsin and had the opportunity to work with James Westgard
which she says was a great experience!
Stefanie Klenner graduated in 2004 from the University of Veterinary
Medicine, Hannover, Germany. Between 2004 and 2006 she wrote her thesis about canine
intestinal permeability tests at the same University, successfully receiving her
Dr. med. vet. After a rotational internship at the Small Animal Clinic at the
Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen, Germany, Dr. Klenner started a residency
in veterinary clinical pathology at the Central Laboratory of Justus-Liebig University.
Currently, she is working as scientific product manager laboratory diagnostic for scil
animal care company. She is an experienced speaker in various themes of veterinary
clinical pathology and lectures often at national as well as international conferences.
She is the current Chair of the Lab Standards Committee of the ECVCP. Since 2009
Dr. Klenner is one of the instructors of the VIN Quality Management Course and provides
her skills and knowledge also to other courses of VIN. She is especially interested in
general clinical pathology, quality control as well as learning strategies.
Peggy Schmidt received a Bachelor of Science in Animal Science from
the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and her DVM from the University of Minnesota.
After receiving her DVM, she joined a 3-doctor, 2-clinic rural practice in Western
Minnesota where she enjoyed practicing food animal medicine and herd health.
After 5 years in practice, Dr. Schmidt returned to school and received a master's
degree in veterinary preventive medicine from Iowa State University.
In May 2004, she joined the faculty of the new College of Veterinary Medicine at Western
University of Health Sciences as an Assistant Professor of Production Medicine and
Epidemiology. During her time at WesternU, Dr. Schmidt Taught the 3rd year Population
Health & Production course and facilitated 1st and 2nd year students in the
problem-based learning pedagogy. She coordinated the WesternU DVM/MPH program in
conjunction with University of Minnesota and continues to hold an adjunct position
at UMN School of Public Health. Dr. Schmidt served in the role of Director of Year
4 Curriculum and Director of College Outcomes Assessment. She gained diplomate status
in the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine and received the Norden-Pfizer
Award for Teaching Excellence during her tenure at WesternU. Dr. Schmidt has recently
moved to Kansas and is currently the Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Student
Affairs at Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine.
Total CE Credit: 10
Tuition: Member $230 ($207 early bird special if enrolled by January 31, 2019)
Non-Member $355 ($319 early bird special if enrolled by January 31, 2019)
Prices are listed in US dollars.
*To ensure participants are ready and prepared for classes,
enrollment will close on February 21, 2019 at 5 pm ET (USA)
or when the maximum number of participants is reached.
*For more information on how online CE works, see the
Participant Resource Center.
To Enroll:
Enrollment is closed.
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VIN member and non-member veterinarians. Veterinarians enrolling in a VSPN CE course
must be a VIN member. Veterinary support staff must be a VSPN member to enroll in a
VSPN CE or a VIN CE course open to VSPN member enrollment.
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and @vin.com addresses. Email is our major form of communication with participants;
personal emails are highly recommended rather than clinic/hospital email addresses.
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"This program (22-35512) is approved by the AAVSB RACE to offer a
total of 10 CE Credits, with a maximum of 10 CE Credits being available to any individual
veterinarian.
This RACE approval is for the subject matter categories of: Medical,
using the delivery method of Interactive-Distance: (Web-based, Teleconference or Audio-Conference).
This approval is valid in jurisdictions which recognize AAVSB RACE; however, participants are
responsible for ascertaining each board's CE requirements."
Course withdrawal and refund policy: A complete refund of the paid course price will be
issued when your withdrawal request is received prior to the listed start date of the course.
If you wish to withdraw after the start date please contact the VIN office 800-846-0028 ext. 797
to discuss eligibility for a pro-rated refund.
*For more information on VIN's upcoming CE courses, check the
VIN Course Catalog.
Katherine James, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (SAIM)
VIN Education Director
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