Mini Grant for Veterinary Technology Flip Cameras

Dr. Beth AldenHope Windle

AVMA Skill Evaluation

• Each student is graded to the standards of every other student.

• Dr. Alden or Donna Meier, LVT would have to watch each student perform the skill and make sure it was done correctly.

PROBLEM: Students

are performing these skills all over the

Hudson Valley

A lot of time and travel to get to each

place when the students

are doing their skills

Sometimes there is a slow day and the students can’t be evaluated.

Each student is assigned 8 clinical skills

• Students have several weeks to film and explain the process they are using.

• Film clips are: 1. Submitted to Dr. Alden2. Graded and held to same

standard.3. Archived for AVMA

FLIP cameras & Tripods > Youtube

Took off Youtube, archived to flash drives

Archived for school on external hard drive.

Fall 2011 and Spring 2012

Impact • 1. For the Vet Tech Program to be able to archive records of the skills evaluation

portfolio of a particular student. • 2. For the Vet Tech Program to easily provide evidence for the verification for

certification from the AVMA for the success of our Vet Tech students and the Program in general.

• 3. AVMA needs evidence of clinical assessments of particular skills. Presently,

the Vet Tech program maintains a clinical skills grid for each student. The videos would enhance the evaluation process and provide evidence of the clinical skill assessment to the AVMA. This would help maintain our accreditation standard with the AVMA.

• 4. This project would also provide a consistent resource for students to review the videos of how procedures should be done before they embark on their clinical assessments. They will be able to access videos of instructors performing and explaining the skills.

• 5. The most important impact of this project is to improve student success. Students will be able to access instructional videos at any time. Each clinical skill of all students will be recorded for review and evaluation. Students will be able to receive feedback that will allow them to become more competent in their clinical skills. As competency increases, preceptorship grades will increase and students will be more competitive in the workforce.

We will know if the project succeeds…

• Improve preceptorship grades and pass rate. The goal is to have 85% of student achieve a B or higher in their

preceptorship and to keep the failure rate at or below 2-3%.

• Improve hiring and retention of SUNY Ulster Vet Tech students in the workforce. (Many of our students are employed and trained in the clinical facilities of the

members of our advisory board.)

ALL HIRED versus past semesters 1-2 not hired for poor clinical skillsHI

RED

Vet Tech Advisory Committee

• Positive feedback• Improve Retention of new graduate in 1st time

jobs

Positive feedback from the students, themselves.

• Kept to task.• Deadlines for

assignments• Perform correctly• Better sense of

evaluating how well they did by watching their own video.

Evaluation strategy will include: • 1- Measure the ease of use of the video process for students to carry out. • 2- Measure the ease of use of the e-portfolio and video archive as an organizational and

accountability tool for faculty to track each student’s procedures. • 3- Measure the effectiveness of the e-portfolio helps the Vet Tech Program retain their

AVMA certification. • 4- Measure the effectiveness of the example video for student reference in preparation of

skills evaluation. • 5- Compare clinical grades from previous semesters. • 6- Measure use of the cameras with a Pre- and Post -Survey of students, the preceptor

sites and the Advisory Committee on the success of this new protocol.

Cameras easy to use

• Glitch was the storage

Any Questions?