Table 2.
Descriptive information, outbreak investigations, and graduation rates by FETP level for programs with Veterinary and Veterinary Paraprofessional (VPP) Graduates in 2017.
| Frontline (N = 20) |
Intermediate (N = 4) |
Advanced (N = 16) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program Characteristics | n | % | n | % | n | % |
| Number of programs that jointly train veterinarians/VPPs with public health epidemiologists | 16 | 89% | 4 | 100% | 12 | 75% |
| Class Size | Median | IQR | Median | IQR | Median | IQR |
| Class size | 25 | 24.3–32.6 | 20 | 16.5–25.9 | 15.3 | 12.8–22.0 |
| Veterinary/VPP class size | 2.8 | 1.0–5.6 | 2 | 1.8–2.8 | 3 | 1.5–4.0 |
| Training Time | Mean | Range | Mean | Range | Mean | Range |
| Months in lecture | 0.7 | 0.5–1.0 | 2.6 | 1.8–3.0 | 6 | 3.0–8.0 |
| Months in field | 2.2 | 0.3–2.5 | 7.5 | 4.2–12.0 | 18 | 16.0–21.0 |
| Outbreak Investigations | n | % | n | % | n | % |
| Number of programs that investigated outbreaks in 2017 | 15 | 75% | 3 | 75% | 16 | 100% |
| Number of programs that investigated zoonotica outbreaks | 12 | 80% | 2 | 67% | 14 | 88% |
| Number of programs that investigated TADsb | 6 | 40% | 0 | 0% | 3 | 19% |
| Sum | % (N) | Sum | % (N) | Sum | % (N) | |
| Total # of outbreaks investigated in 2017 | 682 | 15 | 51 | 3 | 483 | 16 |
| Total # of zoonotic outbreaks investigated in 2017 | 297 | 44% (12) | 8 | 16% (2) | 116 | 24% (14) |
| Total # of TADs investigated in 2017 | 88 | 13% (6) | 0 | 0% (0) | 74 | 15% (3) |
| Graduation Rates | Sum | % (N) | Sum | % (N) | Sum | % (N) |
| Total graduates to date | 3780 | 20 | 279 | 4 | 2036 | 16 |
| Total veterinary/VPP graduates to date | 387 | 10% (20) | 19 | 7% (4) | 196 | 10% (16) |
| Total graduates in 2017 | 1680 | 20 | 50 | 3 | 348 | 14 |
| Total veterinary/VPP graduates in 2017 | 186 | 11% (17) | 16 | 32% (2) | 46 | 13% (8) |
| Retention | Sum | % (N) | Sum | % (N) | Sum | % (N) |
| Total veterinary/VPP graduates retained by host ministries out of all veterinary/VPP graduates to datec | 363 | 97% (16) | 19 | 100% (4) | 146 | 79% (13) |
| % Retained by MoH | 10 | 4% (3) | 1 | 5% (1) | 20 | 14% (2) |
| % Retained by MoAg | 255 | 70% (13) | 18 | 95% (3) | 118 | 81% (11) |
FETP: Field Epidemiology Training Program; TAD: Transboundary Animal Disease; MoH: Ministry of health; MoAg: Ministry of agriculture.
Infectious diseases that can be spread between animals and humans; can be spread by food, water, fomites, or vectors [13].
Transboundary Animal Diseases (TADs) may be defined as those epidemic diseases which are highly contagious or transmissible and have the potential for very rapid spread, irrespective of national borders, causing serious socio-economic and possibly public health consequences [49].
Revised denominators for veterinary/VPP retention, uses only the programs with veterinary/VPP graduates that reported retention data: Frontline: 374 (n = 16); Advanced: 186 (n = 13).