{"id":21407,"date":"2020-07-27T17:40:23","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T17:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/todaysveterinarypractice.com\/?p=21407"},"modified":"2022-02-18T20:47:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T20:47:19","slug":"cornell-veterinary-euthanasia-course-wins-grand-prize-in-international-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navc.sitepreview.app\/todaysveterinarypractice.com\/news\/cornell-veterinary-euthanasia-course-wins-grand-prize-in-international-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornell Veterinary Euthanasia Course Wins Grand Prize in International Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe are not taught to be good at carrying out death: No one taught us how to walk into an examination room for a euthanasia appointment, what to say to a crying teenager, or whether to hug the elderly man who just lost the pet that was the last link to his late wife,\u201d wrote Mary Gardner, DVM, and Dani McVety, DVM, in <a href=\"https:\/\/todaysveterinarypractice.com\/handling-euthanasia-practice\/\">\u201cHandling Euthanasia In Your Practice\u201d<\/a> in the January\/February 2016 issue of <em>Today\u2019s Veterinary Practice<\/em>.\u00a0 The authors, who co-founded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lapoflove.com\/\">Lap of Love Veterinary Hospice<\/a>, also noted of a veterinarian\u2019s educational experience: \u201cWe never received direct guidance about proper verbal and nonverbal techniques that make this \u2018most difficult appointment\u2019 just a bit easier on everyone, including the veterinary professional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ariana Boltax, DVM and instructor at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vet.cornell.edu\/\">Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine<\/a>, wanted to change that for her students. She designed the course Small Animal Euthanasia: Clinical Communication and Practice to ensure her students possess crucial skills to enable them to communicate with grief-stricken clients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA wise vet once told me that the appointments that pet owners remember most are the pet\u2019s first and the pet\u2019s last,\u201d says Dr. Boltax. \u201cThe euthanasia experience is profoundly impactful on both clients and on veterinarians, yet research has shown that between one-quarter and one-third of fourth-year veterinary students feel neither competent nor comfortable with the technical and professional skills involved with euthanasia. Building this course was a phenomenal opportunity to fill a void in the veterinary curriculum in areas I&#8217;m passionate about, and to innovate the educational experience along the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Boltax\u2019s course is typically offered to fourth-year veterinary students, but due to the pandemic, this spring it was opened up to third-year students.<\/p>\n<p>The challenges posed by COVID-19 impacted Dr. Boltax\u2019s students suddenly. \u201cWhen we had to shift all of our in-person communication labs online, I had to think carefully about how to best host the labs using a video-chat software,\u201d she says. \u201cBesides some relatively minor shifts, I don\u2019t think we lost any value in that transition. Instead, it actually led to valuable conversations about the nuances of online\/phone versus in-person communication, and it gave students the opportunity to practice telemedicine, which is something that I don\u2019t think is going away anytime soon. Educationally, students are more likely to remember information long-term when it\u2019s taught in an active and engaging fashion. Transitioning my live, interactive lectures to an asynchronous format really forced me to get creative about how to engage students in the learning process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The creativity was evident in the students\u2019 projects, says Dr. Boltax. \u201cVeterinary students don\u2019t often have opportunities to be creative in their courses, and it was so humbling to see the phenomenal work they put forward. One student designed an entire hospital focused on end-of-life care and euthanasia using the video game The Sims. Another pair wrote and recorded a beautiful song focused on veterinary compassion fatigue. A group designed a book about pet loss for parents to fill in with their children. Others focused on using design psychology to design an optimal comfort room for euthanasia. Students also produced truly insightful research on topics such as environmental considerations of barbiturate use for euthanasia, and how to facilitate a socially distanced euthanasia during this pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The course received recognition beyond Cornell when it earned the grand prize in the COVID Educational Creations Contest, an international competition sponsored by VetMedAcademy, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/vetmedacademy.org\/user\/login\">course materials<\/a> were made available to veterinary professionals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is really validating to know that a panel of reviewers saw the same value that I see in the course materials I created, and I\u2019m excited that my materials are now available, free, for veterinary professionals to use with their own students.\u201d she says. \u201cThis contest has drawn more attention to the subject of euthanasia communication skills education, and I&#8217;m excited for the future innovations that follow this work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Boltax says that as a kid, she was like many of her peers\u2014she loved animals and she wanted to be a veterinarian.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really didn&#8217;t know what that meant for me until I got to college,\u201d she says. \u201cI went to Brandeis University, a liberal arts research university, and I fell in love with teaching, academic advising, the integration of the liberal arts into science courses. Midway through college, I seriously considered a pathway to undergraduate teaching, but I realized I hadn\u2019t had substantial veterinary exposure yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, Dr. Boltax worked as an intern at the New England Wildlife Center in South Weymouth, Massachusetts, and also participated in the Tufts Adventures in Veterinary Medicine program. At the time, she wasn\u2019t certain she wanted a career in veterinary medicine. At Brandeis, she was also a student mentor, offering support and advice to STEM Posse scholarship recipients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was through those experiences that I learned that veterinary education is a career option for me,\u201d says Dr. Boltax. \u201cLearning that it was possible to combine my loves of education and veterinary medicine really blew my mind, and I&#8217;ve been working to pave that path for myself ever since.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Learn More<\/h3>\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/todaysveterinarypractice.com\/handling-euthanasia-practice\/\">Handling Euthanasia in Your Practice<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/todaysveterinarypractice.com\/bridging-the-gap-between-terminal-illness-and-euthanasia\/\">Bridging the Gap Between Terminal Illness and Euthanasia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/todaysveterinarypractice.com\/adding-veterinary-hospice-services-to-your-practice\/\">Adding Veterinary Hospice Services to Your 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