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>> Lifelong learning is an important theme at the Kansas State University College of
Veterinary Medicine. The college’s Continuing Education events, such as the Bull Management
Conference held January 6, are designed to round up outstanding speakers and up-to-date,
practical information.
>> DR. ROBERT LARSON: The food animal faculty at the College of Veterinary Medicine decided
a number of years ago that we wanted to provide some really good continuing education for
our beef cattle clients and veterinarians, so this year we scheduled a conference where
we can focus on the bull side of cow/calf production for Kansas/Midwestern herds.
>> The conference featured speakers from the College of Veterinary Medicine as well as
the Department of Animal Sciences and Industry who discussed several relevant topics including
bull selection, disease control and fertility evaluation.
>> DR. ROBERT LARSON: When practitioners come to a conference at vet school here in Manhattan,
they’re going to see a number of things I think they’ll really like. First of all,
really good content, really good information from top-notch speakers, but also we take
care of them very well. Our office of continuing education provides an outstanding event in
that registration is easy and straight-forward, good meals, good snacks and breaks.
>> DR. MEREDYTH JONES: And then, once they go into the conference room, what we hope
to be able to provide is access to speakers, access to information that they can’t get
otherwise. The reputation of our speakers frequently is that willingness to stay around
between time, between hours of sessions and speak to producers, speak to veterinarians
>> While created to help practitioners earn continuing-education credit needed to renew
their veterinary licenses, the event also allowed veterinarians and producers to build
working relationships.
>> DR. SHAN HULLMAN: The other thing I like about some of these smaller conferences are
just the interaction between different practitioners. Friendships develop, get to talk to old friends,
new friends, colleagues, get different ideas also.
>> For those unable to attend, the Bull Conference presentations were recorded to be made available
through the college’s continuing education site, Veterinary Medicine Online.
>> The college’s continuing-education events are organized with input from a multi-disciplinary
faculty committee, who uses its expertise and comments from previous conferences to
develop meetings that will fit the needs of event participants.
>> DR. MEREDYTH JONES: And we do our best to identify those topics that our attendees
want to see the most, particularly if we see a topic that comes up again, again and again.
And then based on the expertise of the folks on the CE committee, we will attempt to identify
a speaker we think is best capable of addressing that topic and then incorporating them into
a future conference.
>> Past conferences have focused on a wide variety of topics such as small ruminants,
camelids, equine reproduction and calving and calf care. Many of the conferences at
the college are created to not only appeal to veterinarians, but also to animal producers,
breeders and owners.
>> MARVIN DUNCAN: I attended the conference last year and enjoyed it quite a bit and just
hoping to get some more knowledge this year . . . Well I attended with my veterinarian,
it gives us good time to interact . . .I’m sure there going to be some things that we
work on when we get back home.
>> DR. MEREDYTH JONES: I think K-State CE has the unique ability to pull off a small
regional conference with a lot of intimacy between the speakers and the attendees and
really provide good, solid, practical information that can be applied the next day. And so for
me that’s a tremendous amount of fun. I really like interacting with the veterinarians,
owners, and with my fellow faculty members putting these together.
>> If you are interested in finding out more about upcoming events held at the College
of Veterinary Medicine, please visit the college’s website or find the Office of Continuing Education
and Events on Facebook.