Summer Dairy Institute
The Summer Dairy Institute: A Collaborative, Integrated Training Experience to Accelerate Young Veterinarians’ Careers in Dairy Production Medicine Daryl Nydam, Paula Ospina and Julia Felippe
Program Directors Daryl Nydam
Rob Gilbert Chuck Guard Steve Eicker
Program Coordinator Charles Nydam
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Daryl Nydam, DVM, PhD Assistant Professor Production Medicine
2004 to 2012
• 183 participants have completed the program • representing 30 North American veterinary colleges
and 8 overseas schools
• divided between entering 4th years and new graduates
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~70 guest faculty/year
• Private practice - Perry, Countryside, FHMS, Sterner • Dairies - Sunny Dene, Columbia River, Bridgewater • Industry - Valley Ag Software, Diamond-V, Elanco, Boehringer, Bayer,
Cargill, Merck • Government - USDA/APHIS, FDA • Academia - Cornell, Florida, Guelph, Minnesota, Ohio St., Miner Inst.,
Wisconsin, Georgia
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Course Topics
• Reproduction • Nutrition • Farm Finances • Data-based Decision
Making • Animal Well-being • Data Management • Performance
Monitoring • Farm Facilities • Hoof Care
• Youngstock • Biosecurity • Practice Management • Infectious diseases • Epidemiology • Spanish Language • Transition Cow Management
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Dairy Spanish - 3hrs per week for 6 weeks
- basic vocabulary
• student vocabulary – comparison of their gained knowledge
at the beginning and end of course
- language structure • how to build sentences • simple text, active voice
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Paula Ospina, DVM, MPH, PhD Senior Lecturer
More than a different language
• not all Latin American immigrants have the same background – conflict, stress, attrition
• professional hierarchy
– managerial expectations
• when is Spanish is not the workers’ language
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Literal translation is not enough
VACA SECA NO LECHE EN EL TANQUE
DRY COW
NO MILK IN THE TANK
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Explaining ‘Why’ • creates a new check-point (rather than a
problem-point) • requires understanding of language, culture and
education
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VACA SECA NO LECHE EN EL TANQUE