Welcome
One of COWBEL's core tenants is to educate and share items of interest involving veterinary distributed education.
Faculty of COWBEL institutions may request funding from COWBEL. If you need access to the PRIVATE COWBEL pages and are a faculty member of a COWBEL university, please contact DrJWeale@COWBEL.org to request access to COWBEL's private pages.
COWBEL PROJECTS
COWBEL Funded Projects
Projects reviewed by committees and approved for funding by COWBEL Leadership
Peter Cockcroft - University of Surrey
The importance of preparedness factors for clinical training: comparing the opinions of practice based clinical trainers and faculty-based veterinary academics in 3 COWBEL veterinary schools
(2023)
Jenny Routh - University of Surrey
What makes an excellent clinical supervisor in a distributive model of veterinary workplace clinical training?
(2024)
Don Rollins, et. al. - Texas Tech University
Enhancing Clinical Reasoning and Problem-Solving through Think Aloud Protocol (TAP) for Clinical Instructors (CIs) and Veterinary Students in a Distributive Clinical Training Model
(2025)
COWBEL Projects
The list below includes projects supported by COWBEL for the good of all COWBEL Universities
Educate the Clinical Educator
Clinical Educator modules are provided to COWBEL member universities to help educate veterinary clinical educators
Harmonization of Clinical Practice, Clinical Educator and Site Inspection I
Using Smartsheet - the goal is to allow clinical partners and clinicians more easily work with universities that provide veterinary distributed education.
Need information on these projects? Contact DrJWeale@COWBEL.org
Call for funding
The projects submitted for funding should be focused on some important aspect of the workplace based distributed model of veterinary clinical training. The Scholarship Committee has drawn up a list of priority research topics although applicants may wish to submit proposals on other topics which will be given due consideration.
Priority Topics
- Workplace based assessments
- Operational aspects of the distributive model of veterinary education
- Agreement structure (contracts) with clinical affiliate partners
- Education of veterinary stakeholders on veterinary distributed education
- Pastoral care and wellness of students in a distributed model
- Measuring learning outcomes of a distributed model of clinical training
- Terminology paper – glossary/lexicon
- Case logs/Skills logs what do student see, what do students do
- Professional skills development – the role of the preceptor in a distributed model of clinical training
- Sustainability and environmental impact in practice
- Artificial intelligence in practice
- Equity, diversity and inclusion in practice
- Pedagogy and workplace-based education
- Practice-based research including clinical trials in primary care
- Education in primary care
- Reflective practice
- Contextualized case management
- Evidence -based veterinary medicine and quality improvement
- Commonality of practice
- Teaching clinical reasoning in a practice-based environment
- Rural Practice exposure – employability and retention in distributed education/post-graduate positions
- Learning Management Systems
- Telehealth
- Big data and clinical practice networks
- Economic analysis and viability
- Training practice preceptors
- Obtaining and communicating feedback
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