By now, most of us have read many articles predicting that the arrival of generative artificial intelligence (AI) like OpenAI’s ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) and Google’s Bard.

In 2006, as a newly appointed department head at the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Illinois, moving from the University of Georgia, I made a trip “up-campus” to the Stud

Today marks a year from the day when the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in the U.S.

As early as 1909, Abraham Flexner initiated the model for educating physicians that largely exists to this day in both medical and, with variations, veterinary education: 2 years of pre-clinical and 2 years of clinical training. In recent years, veterinary education has seen increasingly flexible approaches to pre-clinical instruction, some extending beyond a single institution.

According to Emanuel, there is a shift toward demonstration of competencies rather than time spent memorizing content in a medical school curriculum.

Schools at all levels, with a summer to prepare (and in some cases, re-prepare), are trying a variety of instructional approaches ranging from all face-to-face to blended learning to all online.   The virus has its own agenda borne out most clearly in communities where the baseline infection rate is not low enough.  The result has often become a return to mostly online instruction.