Managing Milk Quality
for
Veterinary Professionals

Quality Milk Production Services is offering the course “Managing Quality Milk for Veterinary Professionals”, for upper level veterinary students, veterinarians and veterinary technicians. This course has been offered since 1988 and is taught annually during July and August at the Cornell University Veterinary College.

The 2 week course covers dairy herd health, emphasizing analysis of farm practices for prevention of mastitis and other aspects of milk quality management. Instruction by field and laboratory staff covers farm and laboratory testing and evaluation of diagnostic results to make sound recommendations to control mastitis. Lectures, discussion, laboratory, farm visits, and student case reports are part of the course.

The Quality Milk Production Services Program (QMPS) promotes the quality of milk by reducing mastitis levels in dairy herds. QMPS is a program of the Animal Health Diagnostic Laboratory in the Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences within the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University, and is supported by the Department of Agriculture and Markets of New York State. As the largest organized program of its type in the world, QMPS extends an array of services to clients within New York State as well as to other states and other countries worldwide.

Course Description
July 28- August 8, 2008

Monday, July 28 – Welcome - Dr. Rubén González
Introduction to Bovine Mastitis
Mastitis Causing Organisms and Pathobiology - Dr. Rubén González
Housing and Sanitation - Dr. Hal Schulte
Introduction to and evaluation of Milking Procedures; Use of Lactocorder at Milking - Dr. Frank Welcome

Tuesday, July 29
Teat End Scoring – Dr. Frank Welcome
Testing Milking Equipment - Dr. Hal Schulte; Scott Steiner
Mastitis Cow Side Procedures - Dr. Rubén González; Dr. Frank Welcome
Mastitis Microbiology - Dr. Rubén González
Principles of the Milking Parlor - Dr. Hal Schulte
Farm Milk Quality Mastitis/Evaluation and Case Report - Dr. Rubén González

Wednesday, July 30
Parlor Throughput Evaluation; Farm Visits - QMPS Staff
Heifer Mastitis - Dr. Frank Welcome
AMDUCA and Treatment Records - Dr. Frank Welcome
Molecular Procedures and Mastitis - Dr. Ynte Schukken

Thursday, July 31
Farm Evaluation Visits - QMPS Staff
Inoculation of Milk Samples, QMPS Laboratory - Dr. Rubén González

Friday, August 1
Introduction to DHIA Records Analysis
Dairy Comp 305 - Mr. Jack VanAlmelo
Ambulatory Clinic and Herd Records - Dr. Frank Welcome
Herd Evaluation - Dr. Ynte Schukken
Milk Microbiology:
24 Hour Examination of a Farm’s Milk Samples Culture - Dr. Rubén González; Dr. Carlos Santisteban
Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing - Dr. Mike Zurakowski

Monday, August 2
Cleaning a Milking System - Mr. Steven Murphy
Trouble-Shooting Bacteria Counts - Mr. Steven Murphy
Clinical Mastitis and Therapy - Dr. Gary Bennett
Dry Cow Management/Therapy - Dr. Gary Bennett
48 Hour Examination of a Farm’s Milk Samples Culture - Dr. Rubén González; Dr. Carlos Santisteban
Antibiotic Susceptibility-Interpretation of Results - Dr. Mike Zurakowski

Tuesday, August 3
Principles of Herd Health - Dr. Ynte Schukken
Gross Anatomy of the Mammary Gland - Dr. Abraham Bezuidenhout
Gross Pathology of the Bovine Mammary Gland - Dr. Frank Welcome
Food Safety and Public Health - Dr. Alejandra Latorre
Organic Dairy Farms-Management of Mastitis and Herd Health - Dr. Linda Tikofsky

Wednesday, August4
All Day Farm Visits - Dr. Rubén González; Dr. Frank Welcome

Thursday, August 5
Students Work on Their Farm Presentations - QMPS Faculty
Written Examination - Dr. Rubén González

Friday, August 6
Herd Health Programs in Practice - Dr. Andy Dunn
Student presentation of Farm Evaluations - QMPS Staff