Attendance at workshops and seminars
Graduate School
- Fundamentals of Teaching – Kathryn Meurs (02.2018)
- How to write a statement of teaching philosophy – Vanessa Doriott Anderson (11.2018)
Links to a rotating selection of workshops available through the NCSU Graduate School page
College of Veterinary Medicine
- Developing your job application packet – David Dorman (11.2016)
- Transforming Presentations: Current Concepts in Presentation Skills – Marcia Harmelink (05.2017)
- Choosing a Career in Academics panel (09.2017)
- The Changing Face of Specialty Medicine: What does it look like and what does it mean for academia? – Samantha Morello (02.2018)
- Maximizing Your Time: Time Management & Goal Setting for Grad Students – Nicole Ditillo (02.2018)
- Balancing the Budget for your Research – Kathryn Meurs (02.2018)
- Dynamic Lecturing – April Kedrowicz (03.2018)
- How to spot and manage academic misconduct – Tom Hardiman (09.2018)
- Academy of Educators: Psychosocial Development and the Learner – Jacqui McLaughlin (09.2018)
- Academy of Educators: Moving learning forward by designing backward – Erin Malone (10.2018)
- Academy of Educators: Teaching showcase lighting talks (02.2019)
- Enhancing the Student Experience through Active Learning Strategies – Miriam Ferzli (02.2019)
- Getting started with education research – Kenneth Royal (03.2019)
- Assessing performance in rater-mediated scenarios – Kenneth Royal (03.2019)
- Mentoring Strategies for Professional Success: How to navigate gender and generational differences – April Kedrowicz (04.2019)
- Setting expectations to giving feedback – Cristin Colford (05.2019)
- Supporting students in distress – Laura Castro (08.2019)
- Team Science Training for Biomedical Science Graduate Education – Wayne McCormack (10.2019)
- Growth Mindset: How & Why to Cultivate It – Chris Seals (02.2020)
- Presence in Online Learning – Jesse Watson (03.2020)
- Communicating a Growth Mindset – Melissa Srougi (04.2020)
- Teaching engagement in online formats – Jesse Watson (04.2020)
- Teaching & Learning Online: Asynchronous vs Synchronous – Jesse Watson (05.2020)
- Assessing Higher Order Thinking with Lincoln Memorial University (05.2020)
- Developing Anti-Oppressive Communities: Supporting Black Students and Mentees – Wanda Swan (08.2020)
Events hosted by the AoE can be found on the calendar on the AoE homepage.
NCSU Libraries
- Finding and applying to federal jobs (12.2016)
- Using the “new” RefWorks (12.2016)
- Selecting and using citation management tools (07.2018)
- Creating a Professional Portfolio (10.2018)
Teaching resources, including upcoming workshops, from the NCSU Libraries can be found on their Teaching Support Page
Teaching experience
- Course facilitator, VMC 920 – Small Group Problem Solving in Veterinary Medicine (Spring 2019, Spring 2020)
- Lead weekly small group discussion in problem based learning approach to clinical reasoning and critical thinking for first year veterinary students
- Advisor, One Health Club Epidemiology Rounds (2019-2020)
- Lead monthly rounds for veterinary students on case reports and epidemiologic studies relating to One Health; advise student leadership
- Veterinary student and house officer seminars
- 2020 – Conn’s Syndrome (1 hr, Feline club)
- 2019 – Canine and Feline Vector-Borne Diseases (1 hr, ACVECC House Office Board Prep Rounds)
- 2019 – Epidemiology and Statistics (2 hrs, ACVIM House Officer Board Prep Rounds)
- 2019 – Vector-borne Disease in Cats (2 hr, Feline club)
- 2018 – Approach to Effusions (1 hr, SCACVIM)
- 2018 – Anemia in Cats (2 hrs, Feline club)
- 2017 – Conn’s Syndrome (1 hr, Feline club)
- 2016 – Emergency Management of Feline Urethral Obstruction (2 hrs, SVECCS)
- 2016 – Feline Infectious Peritonitis (1 hr, Feline club)
- 2015 – Toxoplasmosis: A historical perspective (1 hr, Feline club)
- Veterinary student teaching laboratory assistant
- 2020 – Clinical skills laboratory (one 1 hr lab)
- 2019 – Clinical skills laboratory (one 3 hr lab)
- 2019 – Physical exam laboratory (one 3 hr lab)
- 2017 – Clinical skills laboratory (two 3 hr labs)
- 2017 – Physical exam laboratory (two 3 hr labs)
- 2016 – Physical exam laboratory (two 3 hr labs)
Mentoring experience
- NCSU Internal Medicine resident journal club (2018-2020)
- Guide residents in publication selection and review, assist with leading discussion on study design, limitations, interpretation of results (approx. 5-10 times per year, as requested by residents)
- NCSU CMI Summer Interdisciplinary Research Initiative, Undergraduate mentor (2019-2020)
- Mentored undergraduate student for summer research project; student presented results of summer research as a poster at two conferences, continued research in the lab for the 2019-2020 school year, and has been accepted to the NCSU Comparative Biomedical Science PhD program starting Spring 2021.
- Abstract poster selected for American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Annual Meeting, 2019: “Prevalence of two bacterial pathogens in fleas and tissues from free roaming domestic cats”
- Undergraduate research grant awarded, Spring semester 2020: “Evaluation of Flea Borne Pathogens in Fleas of Free Roaming Domestic Cats”
- Royal Veterinary College and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine One Health MSc Programme, External supervisor (Summer 2019)
- Mentored MSc student for thesis research project completed at NCSU: “Characterizing zoonotic bacteria in the microbiome of fleas collected from community cats in the United States”
- Student currently pursuing PhD at University of Wyoming
- NCSU Internal Medicine Intern Mentor (2017-2018)
Other education-related experience
- NCSU CVM Academy of Educators
- Charter member 2018-present
- Education Day Committee member and Session moderator 2018, 2019
- Education research journal club participant
- NCSU Small Pack Leader for International Student Orientation (Fall semester 2019, Spring semester 2020)
- Special Interest Group meeting at ACVIM Forum 2019: Training Veterinary Students
- QPR Suicide Prevention trained, 2019
- Triangle Math and Science Academy, middle school science fair judge (2018)
- SciREN Lesson Plan workshop and Educator Open House participant (2018)
- Developed and shared a K-12 classroom-ready lesson plan meeting NC and national education standards, based on my PhD research.
- Science on Stage, NC Museum of Natural Science (2016)
- Presented a TED-style talk for a lay audience: “Fighting like cats and dogs: Cat scratch fever in pet dogs”
Statement of Teaching Philosophy
Statement of Teaching Philosophy
Lesson Plans
With help from SciREN Triangle, I developed a lesson plan for 8th grade science that adheres to NC and federal educational standards, focusing on agents of disease in North Carolina.
Teaching Resources
The google drive folder below holds notes, papers, and other various useful information. It is not yet well organized.
Collaboration tools
DEI
The characteristics of white supremacy culture
Dismantling racism workbook website
Employability
VetSet2Go: build your veterinary employability
Training and online tools
NIH Office of Training and Education
National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity: NCSU students have access to a free account!
EBVME
Best BETS for Vets – Supporting veterinary clinicians in making evidence-based decisions
Center for Evidence Based Veterinary Medicine (CEBVM) at University of Nottingham
FOAM (free open access medical education) for vets: vetFOAM
Education research and theory
Academia and the academic path
The Professor is In blog
xkcd and PHDcomics, of course.
Other resources can be found on my Resources page.