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Updates
CBVE Analyze
The Analyze Working Group has successfully distributed a survey to college leaders examining the current state of final-year clinical education across U.S. and Canadian veterinary schools, with institutional responses expected by late April. This study aims to better understand clinical year structure, including rotation models and assessment approaches. We encourage your College’s academic leaders to complete this survey to ensure depth and breadth of the information we receive.
In addition, the group’s two-part series exploring student and instructor perceptions of feedback in veterinary clinical education has been published in Frontiers in Education (see Must Reads).
CBVE Activate
The Activate Working Group continues to create materials for educating faculty, staff and students about CBVE. Two new Just-in-Time videos have been posted on the CBVE webpage: 1) Assessment of CBVE Competencies: In-Training Evaluation Report (ITER) and 2) Using the CBVE Competency Framework to Guide Curriculum Mapping. Additional videos on curriculum mapping, assessment mapping, and milestones are in production and will be posted soon. New CBVE Grab-and-Go Kits are being developed to provide all the materials needed for you to conduct competency-based education workshops in your school. These kits will include a downloadable PowerPoint presentation, as well as activities and resources that can be customized to meet your program needs. The first Grab-and-Go Kit on feedback is available on the AAVMC learning management system, LEARN, and we hope to make it available on the webpage as well.
CBVE Outreach
The CBVE Outreach Working Group will continue to develop the CBVE Newsletters, which are focused on providing information to help veterinary colleges and schools implement CBVE. This assistance is achieved through including articles that explain concepts in the CBVE Model, highlighting available resources, discussing ways to use these resources, as well as featuring educator perspectives on implementation of CBVE at their institutions.
CBVE Outreach is also interested in reaching out to broader audiences, including students and clinicians in distributed practices, to explain outcomes-focused models of education and the benefits of CBVE for these stakeholders. This year we will focus on developing the necessary resources to extend this outreach; to this end we are interested in hearing from you as to how this might be achieved. Please email vetmed@cbve.org with your ideas for how to engage these important stakeholders.
CBVE Collaborate
Collaborate continues to peer-support educators working to implement the CBVE model into their college’s educational program and aims to expand this support further to veterinary educators in clinical practice. The group will be hosting their first Town Hall webinar discussing Creating Psychological Safety in CBVE Learning Environments in late Spring. We are planning a presence at upcoming conferences to build a wider community of practice which can support educators at multiple stages of their academic journey. We are looking forward to welcoming new members to our group this Spring and are planning our 2026 peer-support sessions.
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