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Summer Dairy Institute

The Summer Dairy Institute: A Collaborative, Integrated Training Experience to Accelerate Young Veterinarians’ Careers in Dairy Production Medicine Daryl Nydam, Paula Ospina and Julia Felippe

Program Directors Daryl Nydam

Rob Gilbert Chuck Guard Steve Eicker

Program Coordinator Charles Nydam


Daryl Nydam, DVM, PhD Assistant Professor Production Medicine

2004 to 2012

• 183 participants have completed the program • representing 30 North American veterinary colleges

and 8 overseas schools

• divided between entering 4th years and new graduates


~70 guest faculty/year

• Private practice - Perry, Countryside, FHMS, Sterner • Dairies - Sunny Dene, Columbia River, Bridgewater • Industry - Valley Ag Software, Diamond-V, Elanco, Boehringer, Bayer,

Cargill, Merck • Government - USDA/APHIS, FDA • Academia - Cornell, Florida, Guelph, Minnesota, Ohio St., Miner Inst.,

Wisconsin, Georgia


Course Topics

• Reproduction • Nutrition • Farm Finances • Data-based Decision

Making • Animal Well-being • Data Management • Performance

Monitoring • Farm Facilities • Hoof Care

• Youngstock • Biosecurity • Practice Management • Infectious diseases • Epidemiology • Spanish Language • Transition Cow Management


Dairy Spanish - 3hrs per week for 6 weeks

- basic vocabulary

• student vocabulary – comparison of their gained knowledge

at the beginning and end of course

- language structure • how to build sentences • simple text, active voice


Paula Ospina, DVM, MPH, PhD Senior Lecturer

More than a different language

• not all Latin American immigrants have the same background – conflict, stress, attrition

• professional hierarchy

– managerial expectations

• when is Spanish is not the workers’ language


Literal translation is not enough

VACA SECA NO LECHE EN EL TANQUE

DRY COW

NO MILK IN THE TANK


Understanding the

Communication Barriers

LANGUAGE

CULTURE

EDUCATION


Students develop SOPs



Explaining ‘Why’ • creates a new check-point (rather than a

problem-point) • requires understanding of language, culture and

education



www.vet.cornell.edu/summerdairyinstitute


Teaching Dairy Barn

http://www.cornell.edu/

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