Development and Formative Evaluation of a Low-Fidelity Equine Castration Model for Veterinary Education.

ABSTRACT: Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) are units of activity that early-stage professionals perform in the workplace that necessitate simultaneous integration of multiple competencies. EPA #6 requires students to perform a common surgical procedure on a stable patient, including pre-operative and post-operative management. Castration is one of the most common surgeries performed by equine primary care practitioners and is considered an "entry-level competency" for veterinary graduates entering equine private practice, however, to our knowledge there are no equine castration models available for veterinary student education. Therefore, we developed an inexpensive, low-fidelity model of equine field castration and evaluated it using a mixed-methods approach. Two different groups of stude

SUBMITTER: Sheats MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8476848 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature