VDPAM/SMEC 7478C – Swine Emerging Diseases and Emergency Response Management
Participants will:
- Correctly identify which animals to target for testing and determine the number of animals needed to sample given a scenario of a potentially diseased swine facility.
- Select the appropriate diagnostic tests, methods, and approaches for a disease in an infected swine facility.
- Correctly choose disease elimination techniques and evidence-based methods to manage and minimize losses for an affected herd using case studies.
- Analyze and evaluate diagnostic reports and elimination/management strategies for disease with raw data from a clinical farm.
- Describe the principles commonly applied to commercial production to minimize economic losses due to disease at a commercial level given access to a swine agribusiness’s data.
SMEC provided me with classes that were foundational to being able to practice medicine post-graduation. I came out of vet school very confident in my abilities to diagnose disease either through clinical signs or through collecting samples and ordering the correct tests.