The Rural Voice, 1981-12, Page 21Dr. Sanford passes
prestigious exam
Huron County has its own Dr. Quincy
of the animal world in the person of Dr. S.
Ernest Sanford, D.V.M., Dip. Path. and
now Diplomate, A.C.V.P. (American
College of Veterinary Pathology). Dr.
Sanford works at the Veterinary Services
Laboratory (OMAF) at Huron Park as a
pathologist and diagnostician.
For the past couple of years he has
been preparing to take the very difficult
Board Specialty Examination in
Pathology at Iowa State University. This
is not a university degree but is a
specialty recognized by a select group of
pathologists who have been established
since 1947. The preparation for the exam
is long and difficult and there are
stringent criteria a vet must meet before
he can even apply to sit for the
examination. First of all he must have
completed at least one post -graduate
degree in pathology and have worked for
several years continuously in pathology.
While preparing for the exam he must be
supervised by one of the Board examiners
and finally a Board certified pathologist
must recommend that he is ready to sit
for the exam.
Then comes a minimum of one year of
intensive study and preparation. Dr.
Sanford was supervised by Dr. Anthony
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Van Dreumel who is located at the OMAF
Veterinary Labs at the University of
Guelph, which meant that for six to eight
months prior to the exam, Dr. Sanford
travelled frequently to Guelph for con-
sultations.
Finally comes the time for the
examination. Dr. Sanford travelled to
Ames, Iowa where for two days (October
7 and 8) he wrote exams for 81/2 hours
each day. In the theory section ,the vets
use their own microscopes and are given
histology slides to identify and answer
questons about. In the practical part,
about one hundred Kodachrome slides
for post mortem specimens are projected
onto a large screen; questions are asked
about each slide which require written
answers. The slides are not all from basic
farm animals, but can include camels,
kangaroos, fish or frogs, etc.
This is the only pathology exam in the
world which is given for veterinarians, so
vets from Australia, Africa, Europe, etc.
as well as Canada and the U.S. come to
Iowa to try this prestigious exam. Ten
years ago only 25 - 30 people would
apply, but this year over 100 vets wrote
the exam. Only 33 of these passed, which
according to Dr. Sanford is the usual
percentage.
All three vets from Ontario who went to
Iowa passed. The other two are Dr. Rick
Miller, Reproductive Pathologists with
the Pathology Department at Ontario
Veterinary College, Guelph and Dr.
Dennis Hoover, OMAF Veterinary
Services Laboratory, Guelph.
"Awareness meal"
Squash, corn and beans but no meat
was the menu of the noon hour Nov. 12 at
Centralia College of Agricultural Technol-
ogy's open house at Huron Park. It was
called an "awareness meal", and fit right
in with the day's theme: "Feeding a
Hungry World". Meals without meat
aren't the usual fare at the cafeteria, but
typical of a farm family's main meal in
southern Latin America.
The open house went from 10 a.m. to 9
p.m. and included tours of the campus and
animal health technology buildings, three
films, demonstations, displays and square
dancing.
It was a chance for prospective students
to get acquainted with facilities, courses
and staff. Graduates also took the
opportunity to see how things have
changed at the school in recent years.
Dairy data in limbo
Research for a possible book on the
history of the dairy industry in south-
western Ontario is in "limbo" says the
chairman of the recently -created
Stratford -Perth Archives Board. "There
really hasn't been much done on it," says
Tim Nicholson of R.R. 2, Monkton,
although archivist Jim Anderson and
John McCarroll of Stratford managed to
record an interview with dairy industry
pioneer Norman Stacey of Mitchell before
his death earlier this year.
Swine Health Research Review Day
On right. Two veterinarians who presented papers at the Swine Health Research Review Day are Dr. J.B. Derbyshire. O. V. C., who
discussed swine enteric viruses and Dr. S. Ernest Sanford, Huron Park. who gave the latest information on problems caused by
Streptococcus suis type II. Dr. Sanford reported this bug can cause a Meningitis in pigs which is transmissible to humans.
On left, Paul Simmons. Willy Keller and Andy Bunn discuss the informatiorf given at the Swine health Research Review Day on October
28th at the University of Guelph. Simmons and Bunn are Swine Specialists with Arte Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food. Willy
Keller, a well-known Perth County pork producer. is the 0.P.P.M.B. representative on the Swine Research Review Committee.
Participants included both vets and producers.
EPhoto by Bev Brown]
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