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Florida Worldwide College medical college students might quickly be monkeying round at Zoo Miami – however all within the identify of medical schooling.
The college’s board of trustees is within the strategy of sealing a cope with Miami-Dade County commissioners to supply a four-week medical course – strictly elective – for FIU med college students to take part in medical expertise observing the zoo’s veterinarian employees within the care of zoo animals.
If that appears to be a stretch from what medical college students must learn about human care, it’s not – the course is meant to advertise the idea of One Well being medication, a unified strategy that goals to hyperlink and promote the well being of individuals, animals, and ecosystems.
“The course goals to have FIU medical college students discover and acknowledge the idea of 1 well being medication because it pertains to zoological species, surroundings variety, conservation efforts, illness danger and transmission, and antibiotic resistance,” says a memo to county commissioners from Chief Working Officer Jimmy Morales.
Such research might be related to a present illness that has claimed at the least one human life.
H5 chook flu, which is widespread in wild birds worldwide, is inflicting outbreaks in poultry and US dairy cows, with a number of current human instances amongst US dairy and poultry employees.
Whereas the present public well being danger is reported low, the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention says it’s watching the scenario rigorously and dealing with states to observe individuals with animal publicity.
Within the zoo course, FIU medical college students are to develop an appreciation of variety of zoological species and the flexibility to grasp the biology, welfare and husbandry of every species and the danger of illness growth. They’re to get coaching in animal bodily examinations, pathophysiology, anesthesia, pharmacology, diagnostic imaging, and surgical procedure.
Every week, the FIU college students are to debate one well being subject after which, on the finish of their time on the zoo, make a presentation to the zoo employees.
FIU’s Herbert Wertheim School of Medication is a comparatively new medical faculty, opened in 2006 and accepting its first college students in 2009. It had 512 college students within the 2023-24 time period.