Learning-to-communicate and Communicating-To-Learn In Veterinary Medicine: A Survey Of Writing, Speaking, And Reading In Veterinary Medical Curricula

摘要

This article reports the results of a survey of thirty-one colleges of veterinary medicine in the United States and Canada to identify common writing, speaking, and reading tasks performed by veterinary medical students and practicing veterinarians. From the twenty-seven colleges that responded (87/100response rate), we learned that writing, speaking, and reading tasks are assigned in almost every veterinary medical course and that the communication tasks assigned in veterinary medical courses accord well with the communi- cation tasks expected to be performed by practicing veterinarians.