Attendance at workshops and seminars
Graduate School and Residency, NCSU
- Developing your job application packet – David Dorman (11.2016)
- Transforming Presentations: Current Concepts in Presentation Skills – Marcia Harmelink (05.2017)
- Choosing a Career in Academics panel (09.2017)
- The Changing Face of Specialty Medicine: What does it look like and what does it mean for academia? – Samantha Morello (02.2018)
- Fundamentals of Teaching – Kathryn Meurs (02.2018)
- Maximizing Your Time: Time Management & Goal Setting for Grad Students – Nicole Ditillo (02.2018)
- Balancing the Budget for your Research – Kathryn Meurs (02.2018)
- Dynamic Lecturing – April Kedrowicz (03.2018)
- How to spot and manage academic misconduct – Tom Hardiman (09.2018)
- Academy of Educators: Psychosocial Development and the Learner – Jacqui McLaughlin (09.2018)
- Academy of Educators: Moving learning forward by designing backward – Erin Malone (10.2018)
- How to write a statement of teaching philosophy – Vanessa Doriott Anderson (11.2018)
- Academy of Educators: Teaching showcase lighting talks (02.2019)
- Enhancing the Student Experience through Active Learning Strategies – Miriam Ferzli (02.2019)
- Getting started with education research – Kenneth Royal (03.2019)
- Assessing performance in rater-mediated scenarios – Kenneth Royal (03.2019)
- Mentoring Strategies for Professional Success: How to navigate gender and generational differences – April Kedrowicz (04.2019)
- Setting expectations to giving feedback – Cristin Colford (05.2019)
- Supporting students in distress – Laura Castro (08.2019)
- Team Science Training for Biomedical Science Graduate Education – Wayne McCormack (10.2019)
- Growth Mindset: How & Why to Cultivate It – Chris Seals (02.2020)
- Presence in Online Learning – Jesse Watson (03.2020)
- Communicating a Growth Mindset – Melissa Srougi (04.2020)
- Teaching engagement in online formats – Jesse Watson (04.2020)
- Teaching & Learning Online: Asynchronous vs Synchronous – Jesse Watson (05.2020)
- Assessing Higher Order Thinking with Lincoln Memorial University (05.2020)
- Developing Anti-Oppressive Communities: Supporting Black Students and Mentees – Wanda Swan (08.2020)
NCSU Libraries
- Finding and applying to federal jobs (12.2016)
- Using the “new” RefWorks (12.2016)
- Selecting and using citation management tools (07.2018)
- Creating a Professional Portfolio (10.2018)
Teaching experience
- Course facilitator, VMC 920, NCSU – Small Group Problem Solving in Veterinary Medicine (Spring 2019, Spring 2020)
- Lead weekly small group discussion in problem based learning approach to clinical reasoning and critical thinking for first year veterinary students
- Advisor, One Health Club Epidemiology Rounds (2019-2020)
- Lead monthly rounds for veterinary students on case reports and epidemiologic studies relating to One Health; advise student leadership
- Veterinary student and house officer seminars
- 2020 – Conn’s Syndrome (1 hr, Feline club)
- 2019 – Canine and Feline Vector-Borne Diseases (1 hr, ACVECC House Office Board Prep Rounds)
- 2019 – Epidemiology and Statistics (2 hrs, ACVIM House Officer Board Prep Rounds)
- 2019 – Vector-borne Disease in Cats (2 hr, Feline club)
- 2018 – Approach to Effusions (1 hr, SCACVIM)
- 2018 – Anemia in Cats (2 hrs, Feline club)
- 2017 – Conn’s Syndrome (1 hr, Feline club)
- 2016 – Emergency Management of Feline Urethral Obstruction (2 hrs, SVECCS)
- 2016 – Feline Infectious Peritonitis (1 hr, Feline club)
- 2015 – Toxoplasmosis: A historical perspective (1 hr, Feline club)
- Veterinary student teaching laboratory assistant
- 2020 – Clinical skills laboratory (one 1 hr lab)
- 2019 – Clinical skills laboratory (one 3 hr lab)
- 2019 – Physical exam laboratory (one 3 hr lab)
- 2017 – Clinical skills laboratory (two 3 hr labs)
- 2017 – Physical exam laboratory (two 3 hr labs)
- 2016 – Physical exam laboratory (two 3 hr labs)
Mentoring experience
- NCSU Internal Medicine resident journal club (2018-2020)
- Guide residents in publication selection and review, assist with leading discussion on study design, limitations, interpretation of results (approx. 5-10 times per year, as requested by residents)
- NCSU CMI Summer Interdisciplinary Research Initiative, Undergraduate mentor (2019-2020)
- Mentored undergraduate student for summer research project; student presented results of summer research as a poster at two conferences, continued research in the lab for the 2019-2020 school year, and has been accepted to the NCSU Comparative Biomedical Science PhD program starting Spring 2021.
- Abstract poster selected for American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Annual Meeting, 2019: “Prevalence of two bacterial pathogens in fleas and tissues from free roaming domestic cats”
- Undergraduate research grant awarded, Spring semester 2020: “Evaluation of Flea Borne Pathogens in Fleas of Free Roaming Domestic Cats”
- Royal Veterinary College and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine One Health MSc Programme, External supervisor (Summer 2019)
- Mentored MSc student for thesis research project completed at NCSU: “Characterizing zoonotic bacteria in the microbiome of fleas collected from community cats in the United States”
- Student currently pursuing PhD at University of Wyoming
- NCSU Internal Medicine Intern Mentor (2017-2018)
Other education-related experience
- NCSU CVM Academy of Educators
- Charter member 2018-present
- Education Day Committee member and Session moderator 2018, 2019
- Education research journal club participant
- NCSU Small Pack Leader for International Student Orientation (Fall semester 2019, Spring semester 2020)
- Special Interest Group meeting at ACVIM Forum 2019: Training Veterinary Students
- QPR Suicide Prevention trained, 2019
- Triangle Math and Science Academy, middle school science fair judge (2018)
- SciREN Lesson Plan workshop and Educator Open House participant (2018)
- Developed and shared a K-12 classroom-ready lesson plan meeting NC and national education standards, based on my PhD research.
- Science on Stage, NC Museum of Natural Science (2016)
- Presented a TED-style talk for a lay audience: “Fighting like cats and dogs: Cat scratch fever in pet dogs”
Statement of Teaching Philosophy
2020.10_LashnitsTeachingStatement
Updated October 2020