 Oral presentationMeeting the educational challenges to engage veterinarians in animal welfare scienceAdroaldo Jose Zanella  Department of Production Animal Clinical Sciences, Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, Ullevålsveien, 72, P.O. Box 8146 Dep., NO-0033 Oslo, Norway  author email corresponding author email
from The role of the veterinarian in animal welfare. Animal welfare: too much or too little? The 21st Symposium of the Nordic Committee for Veterinary Scientific Cooperation (NKVet)
Værløse, Denmark. 24–25 September 2007 Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2008,
50(Suppl 1):S4doi:10.1186/1751-0147-50-S1-S4
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Animal welfare research programs are seldom integrated into the mainstream activities carried out in schools of veterinary science. Our goal at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science (NVH) is to fully integrate our animal welfare research program with the training of veterinary students and with the regular activities carried out at the school. In my previous team we successfully developed a novel paradigm to teach animal welfare [1]. We harnessed a well-established and culturally accepted livestock judging model in order to minimize the bias resulting from an inherent polarized and politicized view of animal welfare in the USA [1]. The animal welfare judging/assessment competition has revolutionized teaching of animal welfare in some animal science departments in the USA [1]. In my previous team we expanded the concept of virtual environments to enhance learning animal welfare related topics through an on-line teaching program using interactive media [2,3]. | 
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