SMEC Offers Pharmacology Course

February 5, 2014 — 

The Swine Medicine Education Center (SMEC) is excited to announce a new Pharmacology course that will be offered this summer from May 27 to June 8, 2014. The SMEC Pharmacology module provides veterinarians and veterinary students with basic and applied information on swine treatment options, strategies to maximize efficacy, and skills to pursue judicious use of antimicrobials, reproductive interventions, and the entire spectrum of drug therapies.

The course emphasizes case based application and decisions and is approximately 30% web-based and 70% on-site. During the course, students prepare a thorough evaluation of the pharmacologic interventions that may occur on farms and then implement this evaluation in production facilities. At the end of the course a student will be competent in how to select, adjust, and calculate dose regimens, interpret antimicrobial sensitivity test results, utilize clinical trial data to calculate “number needed to treat” (NNT), set expectations for treatment outcomes, and have an understanding of drug classes, regulations, guidelines, safety, and efficacy.

For more information please visit our website http://www.smec.iastate.edu/training/smec-pharmacology/ or contact Kristin Hammen at kjhammen@iastate.edu or 515-294-7692.