On May 1st, the College of Veterinary Medicine hosted a special celebration to honor clinical educators. Attendees included faculty, residents, interns, and staff who gathered to recognize the invaluable contributions of clinical educators to student learning. 

Attendees enjoyed sweet treats, coffee, and tea during the celebration. The relaxed atmosphere allowed for informal conversations and networking.

The event started with remarks by Dr. Jodi Korich, who highlighted the one-year anniversary of implementing the entrustment scale to assess fourth-year students on clinical rotations. Feedback is an essential part of the new grading system with many services providing multi-source feedback to students to support student growth. 

During the celebration, Dr. Daniel Lopez presented the awards for the first annual feedback challenge winners. Throughout several rotations in November and December 2023 and January 2024, clinical educators were challenged to complete a feedback training module and submit high-quality feedback to all fourth-year students. Award categories for the challenge included best model feedback submitted by individual staff, residents, interns, and faculty members, the highest number of student assessment form submissions by a service considering the service size, and the highest number of feedback training module completions by a service. 

• The best individual model feedback winners included Amy Huynh, Neurology resident, Heather Campbell, Small Animal Internal Medicine, LVT, and Dr. Leni Kaplan, Small Animal Community Practice, Faculty. 
• The winning service with the highest number of student assessment form submissions, considering the service size, was Small Animal ECC. 
• The winning service with the highest number of feedback training module completions was anatomic pathology. 

Also highlighted at the event were the upcoming Clinical Curriculum Redesign summer community engagement events. These events will allow the community to see the progress of the redesign teams, have space to give input, and offer ideas for the next iterations of the final clinical curriculum concept. You can find more information about the summer community engagement events on the Clinical Curriculum Redesign site.