Recent weeks have been turbulent and challenging for us all, and here at the JMICAWE we’ve been reassured by the kind messages from our friends and partners around the world, whilst also working hard to keep providing excellent educational resources to support our students of the Royal (Dick) school of veterinary studies, who are now studying remotely from home.
Working with our amazing digital education unit, we’ve been able to create a suite of bespoke online animal behaviour and welfare resources for our undergraduate final year veterinary students covering topics from assessing farm animal welfare through to conducting behavioural consultations in general practice. In addition we’ve been working with our postgraduate MSc students to ensure their research projects continue, and source alternate projects where needed for those originally planning to study with our international partners.
Additionally our existing online postgraduate programmes continue as usual - education certainly doesn’t need to stop during the global pandemic, and here at Edinburgh we’re grateful for the expertise of our digital education colleagues, who allow our work to continue during this challenging time.
If you’re interested in trying an online course, please do check out our massive Open Access Online Courses in animal behaviour and welfare https://www.coursera.org/learn/animal-welfare and cat and dog behaviour https://www.coursera.org/learn/cats-and-dogs.
If you’re a vet or vet nurse working internationally, you may be interested in some of our website resources including farm animal welfare videos and a new resource on developing skills in para-vets and vet nurses https://www.ed.ac.uk/vet/jeanne-marchig-centre/cpd. We also have online postgraduate programmes - if you are interested please see https://www.ed.ac.uk/vet/studying/postgraduate/taught-programmes/online
