title: A philosophy and approach to teaching the epidemiology of food-borne, waterborne, and zoonotic diseases.
abstract: Faculty members from veterinary colleges that teach courses on food-borne, waterborne, and zoonotic diseases to non-veterinary students face unique challenges. The diversity of students' backgrounds, skills, and goals and the public nature of the science require some ingenuity in combining good science with the ability to communicate clearly in a variety of public forums. Drawing on pedagogical theory, the nature of the material, and the diverse abilities of the students, we have put together an effective teaching package for non-veterinary courses on these subjects, which includes a range of methods from outbreak investigations to town hall meetings and food diaries.
authors.affiliation: Department of Population Medicine, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, ON, Canada. dwaltner@uoguelph.ca
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Waltner-Toews
authors.forename: Andria Q
authors.initials: AQ
authors.lastname: Jones
mesh_terms: D000820:Animal Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission; D000818:Animals; D003257:Consumer Product Safety; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D004520:Education, Veterinary; D005506:Food Contamination / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005516:Food Microbiology; D016266:Food Parasitology; D005517:Foodborne Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States; D014871:Water Microbiology; D015047:Zoonoses