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VetMedTeam and CAPC - Teaming Together For Veterinary Practice Team!
The Focus on Fecal Diagnostics course has been made available to the veterinary practice team though a grant from the Companion Animal Parasite Council – known as CAPC. For students unfamiliar with CAPC, an overview of their history and goals will help to familiarize:
The mission of CAPC is to foster animal and human health, while preserving the human-animal bond, through recommendations for the diagnosis, treatment, prevention and control of parasitic infections.
Background: History and Goals
CAPC, an independent council established to create guidelines for the optimal control of internal and external parasites that threaten the health of pets and people, brings together broad expertise in parasitology, internal medicine, public health, veterinary law, private practice and association leadership. Initially convened in 2002, CAPC was formed with the express purpose of changing the way veterinary professionals and pet owners approach parasite management, via best practices that better protect pets from parasitic infections while reducing the risk of zoonotic parasite transmission. The council has four major objectives:
- Adoption of practices and procedures to protect pets from parasitic infections;
- Adoption of practices and procedures to reduce the risk of transmission of zoonotic parasites;
- Collaboration among pet owners, veterinarians and physicians to control parasitic infections, and;
- Collaboration with other groups that share the common interests of parasite control and animal and human health.
VetMedTeam and CAPC have worked together to make this course possible. We both hope that you find it informative and beneficial. Our goal is to provide the practice team with the skills and knowledge needed to create protocols that will address the threat that parasites pose to the health of patients.
 For more information regarding CAPC visit their website at www.CAPCVet.org.
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