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伊莉斯LaDouceur, a civilian veterinarian working with the Department of Defense’s Joint Pathology Center (JPC), describes herself as “a bit of an enigma” because she is one of few team members who work remotely rather than at the Silver Spring, 马里兰基地.

That remote set-up paid particular dividends when the JPC began searching for necropsy laboratories to partner with for a residency program in the absence of such a facility at the DoD. LaDouceur was familiar with a highly regarded option that may have been one of few labs in the region able to accommodate all of the JPC’s needs.

而且就在她家后院.

达勒姆的居民, 新汉普郡, LaDouceur reached out to 主要研究’s 新汉普郡 Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (NHVDL) last spring and set in motion a partnership with the JPC that is providing critical residency training to JPC veterinarians in necropsy, 动物解剖的科学术语.

今年5月，国家民盟迎来了第二次居民轮换, 继去年秋天成立的第一个小组之后. Visiting military veterinarians receive two weeks of immersive training in the program that they wouldn’t have access to otherwise, 这是LaDouceur和Robert Gibson的合作, NHVDL主任, 相信对所有相关人员都是有价值的.

“这是一个很棒的项目. 第一组人非常喜欢这种体验, 我们刚刚迎来了第二组,吉布森说。. “动物健康, human health and environmental health are interconnected in a philosophy called ‘one health.’ The fact that we are using a state-of-the-art facility here at 主要研究 to be able to train the future veterinary pathologists who will help maintain and protect animal and human health is really fantastic.”

Indeed, LaDouceur’s enthusiasm for working with the NHVDL went well beyond geographic convenience. 该实验室是新英格兰地区规模最大的此类设施之一, 接收来自新罕布什尔州和该地区的样本和病例. It is also fairly unique in that it has four board-certified pathologists on staff to help lead the training.

成为委员会认证的病理学家, a veterinarian must complete three years of intensive residency training after vet school before passing board exams. JPC是一个著名的病理学项目, 吉布森说,, 但尸检是一个没有现场设施的领域.

“尸检是他们作为病理学家工作的一个组成部分, 所以能进入尸检层是很有价值的,拉杜塞说. “罗布的实验室有各种各样的病例, 在两周的时间里，主要研究的病理学家和住院医生各花一天时间, 这让住院医生有机会接触到其他病理学家.”

"The fact that we are using a state-of-the-art facility here at 主要研究 to be able to train the future veterinary pathologists who will help maintain and protect animal and human health is really fantastic."

在住院医师项目期间, the JPC veterinarians work the NHVDL’s incoming caseload under the supervision of LaDouceur and the lab’s boarded pathologists. They get hands-on experience performing necropsies and reading surgical biopsies sent to the lab from numerous outlets (吉布森说, the lab handles hundreds of autopsies and thousands of surgical biopsies in a year).

对住院医生和实验室来说，好处是显而易见的. 住院医生获得的经验，他们需要推进自己的职业生涯, 在专家监督下, while the lab pathologists get to spend time in a mentoring role while also sharing their normal caseload, 腾出时间处理其他案子.

“他们都是现役军人, 哪一个可以是严格的日常环境, so it’s nice for them to come to 新汉普郡 and have a couple of weeks where they are just focusing on lab work,拉杜塞说. “And I think 主要研究 really appreciates it because we come in and lighten their load a little bit, 这让他们有时间去做他们本来没有时间做的项目.”

NHVDL不向JPC收取空间使用费, 部分原因在于共享工作负载的好处. But the arrangement also creates a unique opportunity to honor the greater commitment the visiting military representatives have made.

“我们有机会为我们的军队兽医提供服务, 他们都在为自己的国家服务, and that sense of service is deeply embedded in the ethos of both 主要研究 and our military,吉布森说。.

该项目每年轮换一次. 如果吉布森和拉杜塞尔有什么要说的, 这种合作关系才刚刚开始.

“Building these kinds of affiliations makes us a stronger laboratory and will better poise us to continue to reach our top strategic goals,吉布森说。.

LaDouceur补充道:“这是一次非常棒的经历. 我希望我们的合作能一直持续下去.”