Glad to see others (UC Davis) are working towards providing resources to veterinarians. We've been working on an online course for veterinarians much of this year. This course will augment our existing, UM SELL, Online Master Beekeeping program.
This topic (Bee Health, Bees, Beekeepers, and Veterinarian) will be featured at the Montanan Veterinary Medical Association (MVMA) Winter meeting, Friday and Saturday, January 25-26, 2019, at the Best Western Gran Tree, Bozeman, MT.
It is my understanding that the Association invites veterinarians from states other than just Montana to attend. Several of the Winter Meeting Activities are offered as CE courses. "If you are an out of state participant in any of the MVMA's meetings, please first check with your state's Board of Veterinary Medicine to make sure CE will be valid."
More information about the winter meeting, programs, and courses can be accessed at:
https://www.mtvma.org/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=72&eventId=542711&orgId=mtvma
For specific information:
Contact: Charlotte Lauerman
Phone: 406-447-4259
Email: [log in to unmask]
Here's the Agenda for the Bee/Veterinarian parts of the MVMA Winter Meeting.
I will provide 2 hrs of training Friday morning, and MVMA will provide a 1 1/2 Hour APHIS Module 30 training on Saturday afternoon.
Friday Morning, 8-10 am
Veterinarians for Western Beekeepers: Safely Examine Bee Colonies, Identify Bee Pests and Diseases, and Appropriate Diagnostics for Writing VFDs and Prescriptions. ees Need Veterinarians, not simply because FDA now requires a licensed veterinarian to prescribe or issue a VFD order for antibiotics to treat the foul broods of bees, but because bee colonies are subject to a variety of: (1) Pests, ranging from bears and skunks to predatory mites, bee louses, wax moths and small hive beetles, and (2) Diseases, including the bacterial foul broods, as well as fungal chalkbrood, microsporidian parasites, parasitic mite syndrome, and other diseases. Western veterinarians need to establish Veterinary-Client relationships with beekeepers that may have one or a few backyard bee colonies and professional beekeepers who manage hundreds, thousands, even as many as 80,000 or more bee colonies. Setting up VCPRs, meeting the needs of hobby beekeepers versus professional beekeepers, being able to safely work and exam bees in an urban backyard, apiaries with 20 to 30 colonies, or stockpile yards with thousands of colonies, and being able to identify and diagnose bee pests, diseases, and overall colony health are skills that we will introduce and illustrate. Then, in the summer of 2012, we will conduct a 'wet-lab' for hands on use of microscopes to examine bee samples for fungal and microsporidian agents of disease, various methods to screen for other disease organisms including virus-screening, and we will provide a field-camp to demonstrate how to safely inspect bee colonies at the University of Montana research and instructional apiary in Missoula. Jerry Bromenshenk, Ph.D.
Saturday Afternoon, 3:30-5:00
APHIS Module 30: The Role of Veterinarians in Honey Bee Health
This module provides information on basic honey bee biology, bee keeping, communications with bee keepers, and relevant honey bee diseases and conditions, and appropriate antimicrobial use in honey bees. The module also focuses on the role of veterinarians related to appropriate antimicrobial use, issuance of prescriptions and VFDs in honey bees. Lastly, it describes roles of veterinarians related to development of plans for parasite management and development of protocols for disease detection and control. MVMA
I've gone through the APHIS module and it contains a wealth of information plus lots of resources for veterinarians.
For the MVMA Winter Meeing, I intend to focus more on safely working with bees, bee biology, how to conduct inspections, and will contrast the needs of small scale, backyard beekeepers versus the professional (commercial) beekeepers who have thousands to tens of thousands of bee colonies. Then there's the issue of VCPR which is essential for commercial beekeepers and technically may apply to small scale beekeepers.
Summer of 2020, the Western Apicultural Society (WAS) will be back in Missoula and as indicated above, we will be conducting a hands-on, field camp for veterinarians. Depending on feedback from the January, 2019 Winter meeting of the MVMA, we may also schedule a 2018 Field Camp for Veterinarians, probably in Billings, MT.
MVMA just released their Agenda for the Winter Meeting, so the UC Davis notice was timely. We're a bit closer to inland states like the Dakotas and Wyoming. UC Davis will be closer to coastal states. Obviously, given the size of the Western States, Online Offerings will be welcomed by many rural area veterinarians.
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