Brown Dog is the ultimate culmination of my transition to becoming a veterinary educator.  The focus of this company will be to bring quality training and education to veterinary clinics int he New England area. Click on the link below to visit Brown Dog's website.

This course is the most recent application of my education. I had given this talk as just a lecture on two previous occassions but was able to rework the session to include an exercise  that allowed for the learners to utilize previous knowledge, along with the new knowledge presented, to work through scenarios and make decisions.

I was asked to conduct a a training that focused on the basics of identifying white blood cells in order to perform differnetials. In the past, when conducting similar trainings, I have foud that the learners  often are challenged by this skill for a variety of reasons. In order to help determine what the learners needed to focus on, I utilized the "Muddiest Point" Classroom Assessment Technique (CAT) as described by Angelo & Cross  (1993) in the text of the same name.  Click the link below to read the summary of this exercise.

I was asked to present the same training as discussed above. For this session, I  utilized another CAT described in the Angelo & Cross text (1993).  This CAT  was another way to ascertain where learners were at in their training on this skill  and allowed me to gear the training to their specific needs.

After spending over a decade in emergency medicine, one of my favorite topics is emergency preparedness and CPR.  This course orginaited out of a request from a few general practice clinics for training in this area. The initial training was a PowerPoint presentation only. As I've moved toward a more hands-on approach the course has evolved. Click the link below to see an overview of the original course, an overview of the current course, and thoughts on the further direction of the course in the future.

From an early point in the AET program, I was intrigued by the idea of moving away from "telling" my students what they needed to know and toward "facilitating" them learning things on their own. The link below contains the original assignment for a semester long lab project meant to achieve this goal and a reflection of how it went.

During the second semester of teaching the Diagnostic Imaging course in a local Veterinary Technoogy program, I began to slowly implement ways of being more of a facilitator and less of teacher. Click on the link below for a summary of my first attempt to do this in a lecture format course.