This document requests a mini grant to purchase flip cameras and tripods for veterinary technology students to film themselves performing and explaining clinical skills. Students will submit video clips that will be graded consistently and archived as evidence for AVMA accreditation. The goals are to improve student success on clinical evaluations through self-review, provide evidence of skills assessments, and maintain accreditation standards while reducing travel for in-person evaluations. The impact will be improved preceptorship grades and hiring rates through increased competency. Student videos, e-portfolios, and surveys will evaluate the effectiveness of this approach.

1. Mini Grant for Veterinary Technology
Flip Cameras
Dr. Beth Alden
Hope Windle

2. AVMA Skill
Evaluation
• Each student is graded to the standards of
every other student.
• Dr. Alden or Donna Meier, LVT would have to
watch each student perform the skill and make
sure it was done correctly.

3. PROBLEM:
Students
are performing
these skills
all over the
Hudson Valley
A lot of time and travel
to get to each
place when
the students
are doing their skills

4. Sometimes there is a slow day and the
students can’t be evaluated.

5. Each student is assigned 8 clinical skills
• Students have several
weeks to film and
explain the process they
are using.
• Film clips are:
1. Submitted to Dr. Alden
2. Graded and held to same
standard.
3. Archived for AVMA

6. FLIP
cameras &
Tripods >
Youtube

7. Took off Youtube, archived to flash drives
Archived for school on external hard drive.

8. Fall 2011 and Spring 2012

9. •
Impact
1. For the Vet Tech Program to be able to archive records of the skills
evaluation portfolio of a particular student.
• 2. For the Vet Tech Program to easily provide evidence for the verification
for certification from the AVMA for the success of our Vet Tech students
and the Program in general.
• 3. AVMA needs evidence of clinical assessments of particular skills.
Presently, the Vet Tech program maintains a clinical skills grid for each
student. The videos would enhance the evaluation process and provide
evidence of the clinical skill assessment to the AVMA. This would help
maintain our accreditation standard with the AVMA.
• 4. This project would also provide a consistent resource for students to
review the videos of how procedures should be done before they embark
on their clinical assessments. They will be able to access videos of
instructors performing and explaining the skills.
• 5. The most important impact of this project is to improve student
success. Students will be able to access instructional videos at any time.
Each clinical skill of all students will be recorded for review and
evaluation. Students will be able to receive feedback that will allow them
to become more competent in their clinical skills. As competency
increases, preceptorship grades will increase and students will be more
competitive in the workforce.

10. We will know if the project succeeds…
• Improve preceptorship grades and pass rate. The goal
is to have 85% of student achieve a B or higher in their
preceptorship and to keep the failure rate at or below
2-3%.
• Improve hiring and retention of SUNY Ulster Vet Tech
students in the workforce. (Many of our students are
employed and trained in the clinical facilities of the
members of our advisory board.)
ALL HIRED versus past semesters 1-2 not hired for poor
clinical skills

11. Vet Tech Advisory Committee
• Positive feedback
• Improve Retention of new graduate in 1st time
jobs

12. Positive feedback from the students, themselves.
• Kept to task.
• Deadlines for
assignments
• Perform
correctly
• Better sense of
evaluating how
well they did by
watching their
own video.

13. Evaluation strategy will include:
• 1- Measure the ease of use of the video process for students to carry out.
• 2- Measure the ease of use of the e-portfolio and video archive as an
organizational and accountability tool for faculty to track each student’s
procedures.
• 3- Measure the effectiveness of the e-portfolio helps the Vet Tech Program retain
their AVMA certification.
• 4- Measure the effectiveness of the example video for student reference in
preparation of skills evaluation.
• 5- Compare clinical grades from previous semesters.
• 6- Measure use of the cameras with a Pre- and Post -Survey of students, the
preceptor sites and the Advisory Committee on the success of this new protocol.

14. Cameras easy to use
• Glitch was the storage

15. Any Questions?