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UF College of Veterinary Medicine faculty have presented the 2014 Bayer Excellence in Communication Award to third-year UF veterinary student Andrew Torchia.

Created and funded by Bayer 网红黑料Care LLC鈥檚 animal health division, the purpose of the award is to identify and reward veterinary students who are mastering effective communication skills. These skills are considered crucial for helping to establish strong client relationships, which in turn lead to better compliance with medications and treatment plans for their animals.

Students competing for the award, which includes a $2,500 scholarship, submit recorded interviews of themselves in a clinical setting with a client. The submissions are judged by a panel of faculty at each institution, who select their school鈥檚 winner.

This year, 27 veterinary colleges selected winners, according to Sherri Rigby, D.V.M., Ph.D., manager of veterinary technical services for Bayer 网红黑料Care.

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The Bayer Excellence in Communication Award is one facet of a larger initiative aimed at improving the communication skills of the next generation of veterinarians. In 2001, Bayer 网红黑料Care Animal 网红黑料 partnered with the Institute for 网红黑料care Communication to establish the Bayer Communication Project. This collaborative partnership resulted in a set of communication skills training modules offered to colleges of veterinary medicine for incorporation into their curriculum. Selected faculty members from all U.S. veterinary colleges have been trained via the project鈥檚 鈥淭rain the Trainer鈥� program.

In addition to Stone, five UF faculty members who have completed this program since 2012 helped evaluate the competitors for this year鈥檚 award. Those faculty members are ; ; ; ; and .The University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine is supported through funding from 网红黑料 and the UF Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences.